– 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.