Best of #September

From the Alps to Beirut, passing through Spain and Latvia: ten of the most read stories in September.

Totally Lost
Holiday houses, a school in France and a park in Brazil, an experimental design project in Beirut, Eliasson in Korea and an extraordinary photographic online archive among the most read September’s stories.

– 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.

– Designed by Archispektras in Pape, Latvia, The Dune House is a vacation residence for a kitesurfer’s family, facing the endless horizon towards the Baltic sea.

– “The parliament of possibilities” is a major solo exhibition by Olafur Eliasson at the Samsung Museum of Art, featuring 22 works from the beginning of his career to most recent activities.

– Inspired by magic and childhood dreams, AZO. Sequeira Arquitectos renovated a dovecote in Portugal that resembles a suspended minimal tree house in concrete.

– The town council of Passo Fundo, in Brazil, put together a team of architects and engineers to reactivate an abandoned urban site, renovating it with a park, a farmer’s market and a library.

–  Designed by Dominique Coulon & associés in Colombes, the Simone Veil group of schools forms a structural element in the urban composition of the new eco-neighbourhood.

– “Silence”, in Beirut, is an interesting design experiment with the precariousness of urban space jeopardised by noise pollution and other annoyances.

– Located in the historical center of Palma de Mallorca, Flores & Prats Architects with Duch-Pizá converted an historical building into a cultural center open to all the city.

– At the London Design Biennale, Taiwan expresses its mixed cultural heritage by with an immersive and interactive installation where food combines with architecture and design.

– Totally Lost in an online archive and an exhibition featuring party headquarters, military bases, bunkers, planned communities, and memorials for a total of over 2.600 photographs.

Top: Totally Lost. José Enrique Marrero Regalado, Abona Sanatorium, Abades, 1943. ph Daniel Sánchez

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