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David Best e Artichoke, London 1666, 2016
Installations, quite extraordinary ones, in London, Tokyo and Linz, a refurbishment on the Italian Alps, a Hostel in Valencia and from Domus archive a villa by Luigi Moretti are among the most shared and commented articles by our followers on facebook, twitter and pinterest.

– Reflecting the diversity found in Porto’s contemporary cosmopolitanism, depA and Margarida Leitão renewed a single-family house in Porto, keeping its creative and domestic spirit.

– LIGA space for architecture in Mexico City and Argentinian architecture gallery Monoambiente teamed up to create a cross-country installation by S-AR architects.

– On show at the Huis Marseille gallery in Amsterdam, Hooft Graafland’s photographs allude to the global undermining of order and beauty that is affecting us all.

– Emmanuelle Moureaux conceived a coloured installation in Tokyo, employing 18000 woman's silhouettes in 100 shades of colors, to represent the crowd of people in Ginza.

– Studio EXiT completed the renovation project of an old wooden barn on the Dolomites using a discrete approach that preserves the original character and beauty. 

– One hundred drones took off for a spectacular light and sound choreography over the Danube during the Ars Electronica festival in Linz, in collaboration with Intel.

– Showed at London Design Biennale, The Wish Machine project takes direct inspiration from the “wish-tree”, a cultural tradition deeply rooted in the ancient Anatolian faith.

– Masquespacio designed the colourful interiors of a hostel in Valencia, renovating an historical building with typical elements from the Valencian homes of the 20th century.

– “The house is the only space that can disengage us from daily life and from its great or trivial adventures”. Moretti says about his Villa Saracena in an article from 1970.

London 1666 is a 120-metre long sculpture of 17th-century London skyline on the River Thames. It will burn in a dramatic retelling of the story of the Great Fire of London.

Top: David Best and Artichoke, London 1666, 2016

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