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– All I Own House: All I Own House, conceived by PKMN architectures for the graphic designer Yolanda R. Pila,  materialises the interior of a house through its inhabitant personal belongings.

– Rooms You Have Missed: At the CCA, the exhibition “Rooms You May Have Missed: Umberto Riva, Bijoy Jain” explores two different approaches to conceiving and building residential spaces.

– Magnetic Motion: by thoroughly examining the representation of dynamic forces of attraction and repulsion, Iris van Herpen fuses nature and technology in her SS 15 ready-to-wear collection.

– Scientific innovation centre: in the Chilean capital, a monolithic volume erected on a clear geometry stands out against the urban skyline. Its precise choices of composition make it home to a fruitful exchange of research, corporate resources and business.

– Toyo Ito: this exhibition at Toto Gallery, focused on the Taichung Metropolitan Opera House project, shows how the project has developed since it was selected as the winning proposal.

– The Beauty of Boundaries: Snøhetta’s design, created upon the theme The Beauty of Boundaries – based on the ideas of Peter Richter – has been selected for Norway’s new banknotes.

– Movet Office Loft: in the Land of Baden- Württemberg Alexander Fehre developed for Movet an open-plan office structure that communicates engagement, transparency and a marked team spirit.

– The reality-herdened eye: through 225 drawings and 65 models, the Centre Pompidou exhibition shares Frank Gehry’s architectural aesthetic and show the full range of his highly singular creativity.

– The Hedonist: Nuno Pimenta’s project The Hedonist is a transformative room: it adapts itself to the user, his interpretation of happiness or simply to a transitory state of mind.

– Epo Bicycles: Bob Schiller’s graduation project Epo bicycle, inspired by the way cars are produced, revives the local industry and brings production back to the Netherlands.

– Matteo Ragni, Hub: Fantoni presented at Biennale Interieur and then at Orgatec in Cologne, a modular office system created by Matteo Ragni for the contemporary way of working, efficient and flexible.

– Fervent Carpet: Studio Siem & Pabon presents at the Dutch Design Week a carpet that be can be heated to kill the dust mites, allowing people who suffer from asthma to enjoy textile in their homes.

– Sticks and Stones: for his installation at the Neue Nationalgalerie, David Chipperfield starts from traditional founding elements: the trunks supporting the artifice of the Vitruvian hut and stone from the ground.

– Vertical Plotter: Carlo Ratti’s Vertical Plotter is a small device able to generate a variety of graphics outputs, transforming every wall into a low refresh rate screen.

– The gourd’s family: the gourd’s family collection, on show at the National gallery fo Zimbabwe, was made by the women of Bulawayo Home Industries, which promotes and safeguards the know-how of basket-making, in the framework of a workshop held by Matali Crasset.

Top: Carlo Ratti Associati, Vertical Plotter. OpenWall, Turin, 2013. Photo Pietro Leoni