In Mexico, two architectures embracing the landscape
Set between lakes and hills, two circular structures inhabit the site using local materials.
In Ireland, a cottage rises from the ruins
A scrupulous and delicate restoration pays homage to the vernacular architecture and the chromatic and material characteristics of the Irish landscape.
A Japanese house designed as a vertical progression towards the sky
Made up of apparently autonomous parts, this architecture encloses interconnected spaces and generating a multiplicity of different relationships with the context.
In Portugal, a monolithic house dematerialising towards the interior
A home in a traffic-congested context closes outwards to protect domestic intimacy while opening up in an uninterrupted dialogue with the inner garden.
Mecanoo’s villa as a design object in the Dutch landscape
The tile cladding of villa BW reinterprets the colors and reflections of the surrounding polders, opening to a dialogue between artifacts and nature.
Super-iper-extra-mega-giga-pop: Studio65 and the architecture of pleasure
In the 1970s, the Turin-based collective rode the wave of experimentation that went through planning, declining a popular theme into pop: leisure architecture.
11 Italian motels, from petrol fill-ups to forbidden adventures
Let’s briefly review the history of a famous accommodation type imported from the United States that, from the 1950s to the present, has connoted road landscapes and socio-cultural habits of the Belpaese.
Impossible architectures between digital worlds and artificial intelligence
It’s already a trend on Instagram: fantastic and breathtaking architectures, created to be sold on the metaverse as the new design horizon. We explored them together with Zaha Hadid Architects and the digital creator Manas Bathia.
The poetry of regularity in VON M’s new domestic space in Stuttgart
Two houses combine the formal essentiality with an industrial language and context sensibility.
Prototype merges architecture and nature to investigate the future of living
Through experimental architectures, an exhibition in the United States focuses on the theme of living: PPAA proposes a multifunctional space that enhances the territory.
In Spain, a renovated fisherman’s house welcomes natural light
The project in Valencia by Iterare Arquitectos, Mirasol House, is distributed around a light void and hides a contemporary transformation in an old neighbourhood.
Snøhetta’s new hotel on the cliffs of a fjord
Four cabins built according to circular criteria overlook the Norwegian fjord and blend with the spectacle of pristine nature.
Aerodream, the spectacular history of inflatables
Art sets the pace and architecture follows
Frederic Migayrou, curator of the exhibition “Aerodream” at the Centre Pompidou-Metz, tells us the aesthetic and social evolution of these majestic inflatable structures, from Second World War until today.
Essential, functional, accessible: a building in Mumbai is inspired by early brutalism
An affordable housing complex reinterprets the authentic values of the Brutalist movement, which are revived in the rough, rigorous language and commitment to socially responsible architecture.
Brutalism in Paris through images of more than 50 buildings
Robin Wilson and Nigel Green tell the story of Parisian Brutalism through photographs of architectures and urban spaces.