– In Puglia, near Bari, moramarco+ventrella architetti transformed an old multipurpose building into an introverted private house, closed toward the road and open towards the sky.
– Naoto Fukasawa, Jasper Morrison and Konstantin Grcic: three designers for three micro-homes, commissioned by Muji to slip away from the hustle and bustle of the city.
– Ikea reveals its new future-living lab and exhibition space: a hub in Copenhagen where bring together a community of designers, artists, technologists, makers and creatives.
– David Chipperfield’s residential development in the outskirts of Hangzhou, a composition of dark stone volumes surrounded by a water garden, integrates the atmosphere of this place and its omnipresent relationship between landscape, architecture, and water.
– A hubless bicycle, the smallest and lightest of the city bike, is born in the Innovative Enterprises Incubator of Politecnico di Torino conceived by a young vehicle engineer.
– Estrategias para el Desarrollo de Arquitectura completed a holiday house for a couple in the beautiful natural scenario of Meztitla, Mexico, trying to create pure space within the landscape, with whom it wants to establish a symbiotic relation.
– 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.
– Design Museum devotes its new exhibition to the people and machines that make contemporary cycling what it is, and asks how it might develop in the future.
– Appartement 50 is the third step of Cristian Chironi’s project, in which he turns Le Corbusier’s houses into “privileged vantage points” to understand how his legacy is perceived today.
– Presented in Tokyo, Kamuy is the new wooden furniture collection by Fukasawa for the Japanese company Conde House designed with smooth lines.
Top: Cristian Chironi, My house is a Le Corbusier. Chironi in the kitchen of the high volume of the Appartement 50. Copyright the artist, appt 50 and Fondation Le Corbusier