Best of #February

Ancient churches reconverted, architectural fairy tales and design tv series. Discover the best of February.

B+P Architects, La capriata invertita, Taipei, Taiwan, 2016
From an experimental playground in Massachussetts to a study center in Granada built after Spanish writer García Lorca; radical specular futures, emotional architectures by Luis Barragán, hand-dyed tropical wooden birds and complex timber constructions in Taipei. Read here the best stories of February. 

 


— The church in Vilanova was half destroyed during the Spanish Civil War, and then abandoned: in their renovation project AleaOlea preserved the introspection atmosphere adding a white shell.

— To renew a historical building in Taipei, B+P Architects designed a free-standing structure that is detached with the existing wall and introduces the idea of “structure as furniture”.

— Meticulously replicating the architecture of the places in which he has lived and worked, Do Ho Suh’s structures at Victoria Miro, London, talks about migration and shifting identities.

— At the Sean Kelly Gallery in New York James Casebere presents a new body of work inspired by world-renowned Mexican architect Luis Barragán

— Brandon Clifford and Michael Schanbacher designed special timber playground in Lexington, USA, meant for ‘childish’ exploration and totally devoted to imagination.

— Tired of adding tables when friends and family would come over, Norwegian designer Marcus Voraa conceived a roll-out table that spans from 1.5 to 4 meters long.

— Moisés Hernández studied the stunning feathers of some tropical birds like the Toucan, the Hummingbird and the Mexican Quetzal, and translated into colour shades.

— LNU Lab speculates on our society’s futures with scenarios where human contact is a taboo, gender is to be chosen not before puberty and domestic violence is branded.

— The architectural fairy tales of the year deal with monumental landscapes and sci-fi megastructures, architectures as sentient species and refuges in the skies.

— The new Netflix docu-series invite viewers to go inside eight creative thinkers and imaginative minds working in the world of art and design.

— The boundary between the project in Granada by MX_SI architectural studio and the the urban context is blurred by the threshold of the cultural centre, extended towards the public space.

Top: B+P Architects, The Inverted Truss, Taipei, Taiwan, 2016. Photo Hey! Cheese

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