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- 14 November 2015
– Vo Trong Nghia’s conference hall for the Naman Retreat is an impressive vault bamboo structure that demonstrates the many possibilities of use of this material in architecture.
– For the project of a new cafe in Tokyo, Nendo created an interior that preserves and brings out the innate properties of the original space conceived by Kenzo Tange in 1977.
– 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.
– Richard Wright has chosen glass for a new site-specific installation at the Gagosian gallery in Rome; a material that has a particular reaction to the impact of light, absorbing it or letting it through.
– After 20 years the International Exhibition is back at Triennale di Milano. Its XXI edition will be devoted to “21st Century. Design After Design”.
– Twenty seven photos by Gianni Berengo Gardin depicting the daily passage of large cruise ships in the Venice’s lagoon are on view at the Olivetti Showroom, Piazza San Marco.
– 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.
– Directed by the young Japanese architect Tsuyoshi Tane, the show “Frank Gehry: I have an idea” is not intended to be a conventional architecture exhibition but one aiming to convey the ideas and design process of Frank Gehry.
– In Milan, a dialogue between Superstudio and 19 contemporary artists establishes connections and relations among the Florence group’s research and contemporary culture.
– The Kiev based designer Kostantin Kofta presented in Paris his new bag collection Arxi that literally reproduces baroque architectural elements, one per bag.
Top: Gianni Berengo Gardin, Venezia e le grandi navi. © Gianni Berengo Gardin-Courtesy Fondazione Forma per la Fotografia