Best of #February

Stories about new and abandoned architectures, projects that rediscover materials and motifs of ancient civilizations and reproduce them with modern technology and fabric bridges: the best of February on Domusweb.

Marinos Tsagkarakis, <i>Paradise Inn</i>
Among the ten most beautiful stories published in February on Domusweb there are a fabric bridge to walk above water, a project born from an old photo of Joseph Beuys sitting in his study and kitsch architecture that destroy natural paradises.

Mills is a complex home, full of ideas, with a floor designed as a giant toy box and a rear facade which filters and softens the strong sunlight, conceived by Austin Maynard Architects for a new mum.

– Herzog & de Meuron extended the Musée Unterlinden in Colmar, France, through a urban configuration and architectural language that fit into the old town and yet appear contemporary.
Christo , <i>The Floating Piers (Project for Lake Iseo, Italy)</i>, 2014
Top: Marinos Tsagkarakis, Paradise Inn. Above: Christo , The Floating Piers (Project for Lake Iseo, Italy), 2014

– Christo returns to Italy with a major installation: 70,000 sqm of orange fabric will lead visitors along a three-kilometer route across the Lake Iseo waters and its shores.

– Ambrosi | Etchegaray rethink life inside this old house in Condessa, Mexico City, creating interiors mimicking the original patios while mantaining privacy.

– An arrangement of red brick monolithic volumes makes this theater-auditorium, designed by Siza near Barcelona, a kind of architectural landscape, different on every front.
Álvaro Siza Vieira + Aresta + G.O.P., Auditorium Teatro di Llinars del Vallès, Llinars del Vallès, Barcellona, Spagna
Álvaro Siza Vieira + Aresta + G.O.P., Auditorium Teatro di Llinars del Vallès, Llinars del Vallès, Barcelona, Spain

– Marinos Tsagkarakis’ project is a tribute to all the lost paradises, where mass tourism has turned the land into a commodity, with poor architecture, between kitsch and folklore, and a feeling of desolation after peak season.

– From Talia Mukmel, a project of cultural mix, traditional techniques combined with modern technologies in search of a new identity, perhaps the rising of a new culture?

– An ancient Murano factory, closed in the Nineties, is returned to the city thanks to an intervention that empties industrial interior to turn them into residences, weaving the island’s densely built urban space with the industral dimension.

– At Danish Centre of Architecture Bijoy Jain from Studio Mumbai shares his vision on India, with a journey through Mumbai by night to explain us his unique approach to architecture.

– Late artist Joseph Beuys, sitting in his study and surrounded by leather, is the iconic image form wich Claessoin Koivisto Rune started for this leather rug collection.
Claesson Koivisto Rune, A Sense of Place
Claesson Koivisto Rune, A Sense of Place

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