Death ties Mexico and Africa
The Mexican city of Oaxaca de Juárez presents art from Southern Africa, linking the two regions through their common fascinations, experiences and concerns around death.
Journey to the heart of everyday objects: the cork and the wine bottle
Four French designers study the process of producing common objects, launching a crowdfunding campaign to support the editorial project.
Archizoom, good fellas
"Nice chaps, but naughty enough not to get taken in by ali the old chat about how complicated things are": with these words, Ettore Sottsass introduced the radical Italian group in a 1965 issue of Domus.
Las Pozas. A Surrealist sanctuary deep in the forest
Built over 25 years, Edward James’s garden in Mexico is the perfect mix of architecture and nature, and ouvre that inspired much of the architecture in Xilitla.
Phan Thao Dang turns sewage pipe offcuts into furniture collection
The German designer has transformed a stack of heavy-duty plastic pipes into a minimalist seating collection.
A contemporary fetish dedicated to water
Ô-Cult by Richard Yasmine is a playful object, a montage of a series of elements that winks at different iconologies.
The essence of design
Light and free like a butterfly, extending and folding like a folding screen, ORIGAMI, designed by Alberto Meda, is an electric plug&play radiator that liaises with its surroundings.
SIXTY | Bookcase
A library with minimal aesthetics: essential lines characterized by the round connections between structure and shelves and by its exclusive invisible junctions, that guarantee a maximal formal polish. Subtle reference to the sixties, interpretated with strictness and originality in an extremely current aesthetical definition.
TREASURED LIGHT
A symmetrical bamboo-effect interlocking puzzle characterises Mr. Zheng coffee tables by Roberto Lazzeroni, which name underscores its Far East inspiration.
MAD’s Beijing kindergarten proposes how ancient and contemporary can coexist
A fluid and colourful platform surrounds and preserves an 18th-century courtyard in MAD Architects’ proposal.
China. Changing scapes in Architecture: Aranya Beidaihe
Medium-small spaces such as the Dune Museum, the Lonely Library and the Community Hall, specially designed for community activities, are the alternative to the frenetic Chinese construction industry.
Jorge Raedó
Teaching architecture to children
What is childhood? What is architecture? What is education? Different answers to these questions take us in different directions.
Sydney. A high-end residence transforms an abandoned warehouse
The house for a young couple, by Bennett & Trimble, features a surprising, dramatic, show-off space layout, imbued with references to architectural modernity and post-modernity.
Grayson Perry. Dialectical contradictions between truth and artificiality
In Paris the first major solo exhibition on the celebrated British artist encompasses more than 60 artworks and one medal coined specifically on the occasion.
Alessandro Mendini designs one-off furniture collection for Alpi
Alessandro Mendini has now developed two pointillist veneers for the wood specialist Alpi, and used them to create three cabinets based on the sun and the moon.
The combination of water supply and urban planning is key to future Africa
Water is vital to cities, but potentially destructive. It needs to become part and parcel of the urban planning process, says Maria Chiara Pastore.
Copper roof funnels sky light into London home
A peaked copper roof culminating in a skylight draws daylight down into this Notting Hill home by Gianni Botsford Architects, which features a marble-line pool in its basement.
A mountaineers’ hut is born on the crests of the Alps
Located at an altitude of 3,280 meters and accessible only after three days of walking, the Bivouac Luca Pasqualetti offers mountaineers a comfortable shelter in extreme weather.