Building in straw: a possibility for the future of living in 5 key projects
From the American suburbs to the Milanese countryside, from Belgium to the Alps, architecture shows the sustainability and poetics of building in straw.
“If we have a heritage, it’s to enrich it”. Jean Nouvel’s Paris beyond the Olympics
The future of a changing capital, starting from its architecture. We talked about it with our 2022 guest editor, a protagonist of this transformation through four decades, who designed an installation for Samsung in the heart of the Olympic area.
The dual logic of a pinwheel house in Canada
Reflect Architecture’s design for a buen retiro in the Ontario forests interprets the dwelling as an introverted and protected place, on the one hand, open and integrated into the landscape on the other.
A video project that tells the story of Milan, between Berio, Ponti, and BBPR
MASBEDO’s “Ritratto di città” (Portrait of a city) at the Museo del Novecento in Milan recreates the topography of a city driven by collaborative intelligence on an 8-meter LED wall.
The glass house, in 12 landmark projects
We propose a selection of dwellings where glass is the predominant material, between fades and reflections, from Mies van Der Rohe to Lina Bo Bardi, Odile Decq to Marcel Duchamp.
The renovation of an Art Nouveau building in Barcelona
BACH renovated and extended an early 20th century building while preserving its original features, in a skilful dialogue between old and new.
Francis Kéré: My new projects, two years after winning the Pritzker Prize
“Sustainability is continuity,” says the architect, who claims he doesn’t consider himself an intellectual and whose work is booming.
The history of Villa Borsani and why it matters
The design of this villa in Brianza, now home to Alcova, tells many stories: family, business, and modern architecture. And it represents well the incredible contribution of its region to the history of design and the Salone.
Abstract shapes and sobriety for a kindergarten in Hungary
Archikon Architects designed a building with no concessions to softness, giving back to the city’s reformed religious community a reference point for learning and listening.
A house near Goa, nestled around an enclosed garden
An introverted and protective dwelling in India, designed to offer shelter from monsoons, discloses familiar and private atmospheres around a hidden courtyard.
A renovated house near Antwerp combines postmodern and contemporary
B-bis architecten valorized a 1976 residence nestled in the Belgian landscape, incorporating new elements while respecting the pre-existing elements, between bricks and round windows.
Aerodream, the spectacular history of inflatables
Art sets the pace and architecture follows
Frederic Migayrou, curator of the exhibition “Aerodream” at the Centre Pompidou-Metz, tells us the aesthetic and social evolution of these majestic inflatable structures, from Second World War until today.
Two houses by Claude Parent are for sale near Paris
A villa and a house that became an artist's atelier, designed by the visionary rebel, a critic of all modern movement schemes, are now enriching the market for signature architecture.
The Domus guide to Abu Dhabi
A journey through the capital of the Emirates, among the congested roads of downtown and the dusty streets of Mina Zayed, in the sparkling Corniche, among the cultural stages of Al Saadiyat and in the middle of the desert, in the zero-emission “new city” of Masdar.