– A visionary architect: the 2015 Pritzker Architecture Prize has been awarded to Frei Otto – who dies in his native Germany on March 9, 2015 – for his contribute as architect, visionary, utopian, ecologist, pioneer of lightweight materials and protector of natural resources.
– Expo 2015, Vanke: inaugurated on March 6, the Vanke Pavilion at Expo 2015 is a fluid volume with red ceramic skin, designed by Daniel Libeskind to offer a piece of contemporary life in China.
– Termitary House: to build this house in a central coastal city of Vietnam, an area with an extreme climate, Tropical Space took inspiration from the termites’ special ability to build their nests, creating a brick building with a double skin.
– SilverWood House: the first project of Ernesto Pereira is a house for a couple in Vila do Conde, Portugal, designed without any budget limit nor deadline, just to answer the client’s need.
– Riva Toys Experience: Riva, the iconic Italian shipbuilding company, has presented a family of wooden building toy boats designed by Madeindreams, handmade in Italy without glue.
– Palazzo Greco: the restoration by AutonomeForme, in Palermo, is based on a dialogue between the historical buildings, the new architecture and the landscape design, exalting the historical layers.
– Rzero, Cdle Offices: in a 20th century building in Mexico City, Rzero designed the offices for three different clients following the concept of “create without constructing”.
– Canalla Disco: to rejuvenate a discotheque in Pamplona, Spain, Vaillo+Irigaray Arquitects decided for a brass and black steel palette where constrasting forces are absorbed.
– Sport Centre in Paris: DFA/Dietmar Feichtinger Architectes are responsible for the reconstruction of the stadium Jules Ladoumègue and the creation of new space for sport activities that represents the desire to create an urban continuity between Paris and its outskirts.
– Le regole del gioco: the new Fondazione Achille Castiglioni exhibition “The Rules of the Game”, pays homage to Castiglioni’s meticulous but ironical approach with a hugely varied provision of artists linked to this exceptional figure.
– Wireless charging furniture: Ikea launched a new collection of side tables and lamps turned into charging spots, that features also a wireless charger that you can build into furniture yourself.
– Monica Förster for Zanat: in her collection for Zanat, Swedish designer Monica Förster finds inspiration in nature to modernize the woodcarvings preserving, however, the genuine technique.
– Tokyo tribal collection: launched at Maison & Objet Asia, the furniture collection designed by nendo for industry+ seems to meld the concepts of “furniture” and “miscellaneous interior goods”.
– Landscapes & Stalactites: inspired by water as energy for life, Gupica designed her new collection of modular furniture and fabric wallpaper that will be on view at Salone Satellite 2015 in Milan.
– Time-sensitive activity: Olafur Eliasson’s first solo exhibition in Addis Ababa presents the artist’s new works, among which a series specifically developed and produced in Ethiopia.