Best of #June

Residences related to the natural environment in different ways and two photoessays to trace down the remains of the Soviet empire and the STASI among the June most read articles on Domus Web.

Best of #giugno

Among the architectural project published on Domus Web in June, the transformation of the Beijing Offset Printing Factory into a theatre complex combining drama culture and functional replacement in the hope of bringing a new vitality to the waste urban body, signed by Origin Architect; the low-cost and energy-efficient Casa GG by Alventosa Morell Arquitectes; House VDV, a volume with a pitched roof, alluding to familiar archetipes, brooken up by large glass facades, designed by Graux & Baeyens Architects: and the French Pavilion by Jean-Louis Cohen at the 2014 Venice Architecture Biennale, that questions the false illusions of a modernity made exclusively of progress and wellbeing.

Among the design news Keystones, a table that makes sense of digital printing, winner of the Grand Prize of the Interieur Awards 2014; Ceramic Tables, a round side-tables series with smoke-like patterns on the ceramic top and copper or steel legs designed by Elisa Strozyk; and the annual exhibition “Show RCA” where over 575 art and design postgraduate students show their work.
In June we also posted two photoessays devoted to the former Sovietic Empire: Frank Herfort has been criss-crossing Russia for the last four years photographing for his long-term project “Imperial Pomp – Post Soviet Highrise” and producing images of monstrously massive buildings with an overwhelming presence that seem to come from another time and dimension, whilst 15 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Daniel & Geo Fuchs have travelled East Germany to trace down the visual remains of the STASI: interrogation rooms and floors with a Kafkaesque atmosphere, the cold design of terror, with flowered wallpapers and upholstered doors.
Finally, among the art exhibitions, “L’étrange cité”, a monumental artwork created by the Kabakovs at Paris’ Grand Palais, is an utopian city summing up the philosophy of the artist’s pair, and Splendide Hotel, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster's project for the Palacio de Cristal that invite on a journey through spaces and times where literature becomes a habitual practice of inhabiting the world.

Top: Frank Herfort, Imperial Pomp – Post Soviet High Rise

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