THE ROUND HOUSE, PERFECT CIRCULAR GEOMETRY
Nestled in the hills of Los Altos, California, the Round House was built in the 1960s. The current owners – a budding baker and a family with a passion for cooking – fell in love with it and made a few renovations to modernize the design. The Feldman Architecture studio took care of enriching its […]
LAS ALEGORÍAS VISUALES DE IOANNA NATSIKOU
La fotógrafa griega trastoca la realidad en misteriosos y coloridos relatos visuales que indagan en la exploración del yo, la identidad y la feminidad. Sus fotografías cuestionan el cuerpo y la representación de la mujer en su intimidad. Ioanna Natsikou empezó con la fotografía en 2017, cuando decidió reinventarse haciendo un curso en la Escuela […]
PLAY OF LINES
Mexico With La Piedad, the studio Cotaparedes Arquitectos designs a minimalist house that is articulated around three patios, emerging from the basement. The plot is 10 meters wide and 35 meters deep, with a 3-meter drop. Its name refers to the city of the same name, located in the Mexican state of Michoacán, and to […]
A FORT REVISITED BY ODILE DECQ
France Well established in the French and international landscape since the 1980s, Odile Decq’s architecture is the opposite of today’s monumentalism, on a human scale. A way of designing the building that she translates today in a new project, very singular, where she combines accuracy and elegance, all in delicacy. The French architect has taken […]
GUY BOURDIN HOMENAJEADO EN ARMANI/SILOS
Para la Semana de la Moda de Milán, Giorgio Armani celebra en su espacio milanés la creatividad del fotógrafo visionario que supo crear en sus imágenes un diálogo entre lo misterioso, lo extraño y lo sublime. Sus temas incluyen la extrañeza surrealista, el glamour de la moda, el humor provocador y las misteriosas intrigas del […]
ELLEN VON UNWERTH, REINA DE LA SENSUALIDAD FEMENINA
La Fahey/Klein Gallery de Los Ángeles vuelve a sacar a la luz el trabajo vibrante, cándido e increíblemente sexy de esta legendaria fotógrafa que ha dejado su huella en el mundo del arte, la moda, el cine y los medios de comunicación. Esta artista definió la estética de las décadas de 1990 y 2000, creando […]
TWO SUPERB VILLAS IN CLAY
Central America – Costa Rica The Formafatal studio has pulled off another tour de force with the “Achioté” project, two twin villas available for rent, nestled on a steep hill near the town of Uvita. They seem to float above the jungle. This is the first earthen project in Costa Rica. Both were designed with […]
FAMOUS COFFEE IN BRAZILIAN ARCHITECTURE
Brazil Coffee growing has been a key issue in the Brazilian economy since the mid-18th century. Minas Gerais, located north of São Paulo and Rio, is the main coffee-producing region. The studio GPA&A, founded by Gustavo Penna, worked on this premises, and looked for the right location to make it an emblem, respecting quality and […]
ICONS
Italy – Venice At the origins of the quarrel of the icons (the famous battle between the iconoclasts and the iconodules, having torn the Eastern Church in the 8th century), was the belief in the power of incarnation of the religious image and, consequently, the duty of veneration attached to the “holy images.” This “status […]
ROMAN HEAD IN MARBLE OF ZEUS-SERAPIS
Alexander the Great (356-323 BC) ascended the throne at the age of twenty. He began a military campaign very early on that would take him from Greece to Egypt, from Central Asia to northern India, and give birth to one of the greatest empires in history. In 332 BC, he invaded Egypt, where the oracle […]