Best of #July

A lot of architecture, but also landscape interventions and innovative design projects among the most read articles of July on Domus Web.

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Among the great architectural works published in July on Domus Web the Mont-Saint-Michel by Dietmar Feichtinger Architects, opened to pedestrians on July 22 after 9 years of studies and 3 years construction on site; and The Interlace, a large-scale residential development designed in Singapore by OMA/Ole Scheeren as an extensive network of private and shared spaces in radical reinterpretation of contemporary life in a community.

Smaller interventions with a great design value are House of the Infinite by Alberto Campo Baeza, who built in Cádiz an infinite plane facing the Atlantic Ocean, a house that emerges from the sand as a stone platform; and the intervention of Álvaro Siza, who renovated the building that marked the begining of his career, the Boa Nova Casa da Cha restaurant clinging to the rocks in Leça da Palmeira, Portugal.

Between architecture and installation is the 17th century building in Orléans, Hôtel Dupanloup, redesigned by Studio Makkink & Bey with a series of installation to function as International Research Center of the University of Orléans; and El Zócalo, created by Alberto Odériz in the homonymous square as a meeting place whose meaning is always under construction and is none other than the collective sum of all the people that visit it.
Others interventions in the landscape are the installations of the International Garden Festival imagined by 65 designers, that invite visitors to consider new ways of looking at the landscape and at the world.

Among the best design project the wooden console Balka, created by French designer Grégoire de Lafforest to shelter the dubious treasures of every day existence that we use to accumulate, and two proposals that use in a new way the resources of the sea.

The first one is the proposal of the Deutsch duo Blond & Bieber, that with Algaemy investigate the potential of microalgae in a creative context, revealing the aesthetic potential of a resource which is mostly regarded as weeds within Europe; the second one, by alien&monkey, is Sand Packaging that, made entirely of sand and natural minerals, explores the emotions and psychology behind the process of discovering a gift.

In July we also published many art exhibitions, including “Slow Future” at the Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle: an exhibition devoted to degrowth, a social movement that promotes the abandonment of compulsory economic growth.

Top: Dietmar Feichtinger Architects, Jetty Mont Saint Michel. Photo Michael Zimmermann

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