– Emergent Vernacular Architecture designed a public space in Haiti, a plaza for the community of an informal neighbourhood, aimed to reduce crime and antisocial beheavior.
– On show at TheGallery in Bournemouth, the exhibition celebrates the life and work of Lucienne Day, one of most influential designers of the post-war generation born 100 years ago.
– Issei Suma designed a restaurant at the top of the mountain ridge in Japan, completely unembellished wooden and concrete interiors as a primitive hut.
– The story of the Sirius Building in Sydney, designed by Tao Gofers in 1978, offers an indication of the future of Australia’s brutalist architecture, which can only become resilient to demolition if public opinion and interest from the community converge in its favour.
– On display at Ayyam Gallery in Beirut, “As Cold as a White Stone” explores what Lara Zankoul describes as “the coldness, resistance, and numbness of human relationships nowadays.”
– Using magnetic spheres to switch on light, the Heng table lamp by chinese designer Zanwen Li is an antidote to boredom, that adds ‘magic’ to everyday objects.
– Snøhetta designed the 7th room of the Treehotel in Sweden, creating a suspended Nordic cabin where indoors and outdoors are blurred, making it part of the forest.
– Architects from all over the world answered the drawing call by IUAV University in Venice, with 132 sketchbooks full of drawings and proposals for Syria reconstruction.
– Located in a clearing close to the “Passo del Cavallo” in Italy, this single family house by Camillo Botticini Architetti relates to the Alpine landscape and fits in the ground.
– Ramón Esteve renewed a restaurant in Valencia, using crude materials with more refined ones, such as copper or marble, giving an apparently industrial look to the set.
Top: Lara Zankoul, Triangle, 2016, Ayyam Gallery, Beirut