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Best of #October
Ten stories to tell what happened this month in the world of architecture, art and design, from Seoul to New York via Rome.
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- 31 October 2015
– Christian de Portzamparc and Peter Marino team up for the new Dior Boutique in Seoul: a sculptural white facade, smooth as a white cotton cloth, that envelopes a feminine interior.
– Organised by Yuko Hasegawa with Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa at the MoT, “Oscar Niemeyer: The Man Who Built Brasilia” is the first major retrospective of Niemeyer in Japan.
– Iranian designer Behrad Ghodsi tries to combine style, sustainability, manufacturing and ergonomics with a customizable and recyclable 3D-printed shoes.
– A compact building with a wooden ventilated facade and a green roof: Alventosa Morell Arquitectes built a bioclimatic house just outside Barcelona, with open and transparent space to enjoy the Collserola mount landscape.
– With its work to help villages across China that are rapidly losing residents due to the country’s rural-to-urban migration, Rural Urban Framework won the 2015 Curry Stone Design Prize.
– With an audacious Hollywood pink India Mahdavi modernise the archetype of the brasserie in this project for the Gallery at Sketch, UK winner of the Restaurant & Bar Design Awards.
– Olafur Eliasson’s two contemporary exhibition in Stockholm are conceived to continue the processes of negotiation and co-production that characterise our shared reality.
– In the Eastern Townships, Canada, Atelier Pierre Thibault completed a house that merges into the landscape and reduces its visual impact adapting itself to the ground.
– With his night walks the Roman photographer Paolo Fusco paints the portrait of a sleeping city, dotted with flourished lighthouses.
Top: Alventosa Morell Arquitectes, Casa LLP, Barcelona, Spain. Photo © Adrià Goula Photo