PAUL ANDREUTHE ARCHITECTURE OF MOVEMEN
Paul Andreu (1938-2018) is one of the key figures in the architecture of the second half of the 20th century, having designed the resolutely innovative, pure lines of Roissy-Charles-de-Gaulle airport in 1967. “Whenever I design a project, I don’t create a box to organise movement inside it, but I design the walls according to the […]
ODE TO ARIZONA’S ARCHITECTURAL HERITAGE
The Phoenix-based founders of The Ranch Mine create sustainable, vibrant and original living experiences in Arizona, continuing to resonate with the pioneering spirit of their home state. “Honour the past, challenge the norm, and inspire the future.” Such is the catchphrase Cavin and Claire Costello have claimed since the founding of their architecture studio in […]
CHILD STUDIO, THE WINNING DUO FROM LONDON
Nostalgic and cinematic – two moods that sum up the work of London interior designers Alexy Kos and Che Huang. The two recently struck a major blow in the British capital, in the heart of the Mayfair District. The aim? To revisit a residence for a hotelier and restaurateur, while at the same time designing […]
CASA PRETA BY FELIPE HESS
Let’s head for São Francisco Xavier, a mountainous area about 150 kilometres from São Paulo. “Casa Preta is a 220 m² country residence designed by architects Felipe Hess and Lucas Miilher. Its exterior façade is painted black, enabling it to blend seamlessly into the surrounding vegetation and natural landscape. Its appearance is reminiscent of a […]
“INSIDE JAPAN,” THE JAPANESE NATION OUTSIDE THE CLICHÉS
If there’s one country that Western eyes tend to perceive only through clichés, it’s Japan. Photographer Roberto Badin has set out to break down these clichés with “Inside Japan”, a unique work that takes us to the heart of Japanese cities, to help us grasp all the subtleties and contrasts of this nation. And why? […]
THE ENCHANTED WORLD OF BRITT VAN NAMEN
The world of interior design in Belgium is enriched by the innovative and creative presence of Britt Van Namen. She is an emerging interior designer whose captivating work fuses contemporary elegance with a timeless aesthetic. Born in Belgium, Britt Van Namen developed an early passion for transforming spaces. After extensive studies in interior design, she […]
A RESIDENCE DIVIDED INTO TWELVE BLOCKS IN MEXICO
For the past twelve years, Mexican studio Cherem Arquitectos has distinguished itself by its respect for sustainable materials and its management of natural light in the construction process. The approach of founders Abraham Cherem and Jose Antonio Aguilar focuses on “the synthesis and abstraction of ideas” to design lines and forms adapted to each of […]
TOMMASO SARTORI, ATMOSPHERE PHOTOGRAPHER
His shootings become veritable food for thought. This multidisciplinary Swiss photographer, born in Italy and based in Paris, creates fascinating stagings, transporting the viewer into extraordinary, parallel worlds. A graduate in visual communications from Milan, he explores the language of architecture, object and interior design, playing with light and shadow and variations of black and […]
INTO THE MONOCHROME, MINIMALIST WORLD OF NINA PAPIOREK
The German photographer combines architecture, urban landscape, geometric abstraction, line finality and street photography with rare skill. A minimalist global vision of another world, where black and white, its radical tonalities and shades of gray, transport the viewer into an aesthetic that is at once contemporary, futuristic and historical. “For me, black and white is […]
THE LOOP, A MARVELLOUS DIVE INTO THE HEART OF THE INDONESIAN FOREST
German architect Alexis Dornier has come up with a unique spiral-shaped creation that breaks away from architectural habits. “We’ve lived in boxes all our lives, and now we’re looking for the exact opposite. This is the simple yet profound brief Alexis Dornier was given for this villa in Indonesia. A real challenge, to which the […]
AMERICAN MODERNISM IN MAJESTY
Woods + Dangaran continues to sublimate the modernist soul of the American Western desert with its recent project in Utah. The residential designs of Woods + Dangaran, founded by Brett Woods and Joseph Dangaran, remain a feast for the eyes for lovers of modernist design and architecture in arid lands. Their first monograph (Éd. Rizzoli), […]
CLEMENS GRITL PROBES 20TH-CENTURY URBAN UTOPIAS
For the past six years, Clemens Gritl’s digital renderings have examined the tension between the revolutionary sculptural beauty of post-war megastructures and their loss of human scale. Through his series A Future City From The Past, Clemens Gritl draws on “the mystifying vision of a radically aggressive and uncompromising urban dystopia” Starting with J.G. Ballard’s […]
VERTEBRAL, WHEN ARCHITECTURE ADAPTS TO NATURE
Founded in 2016 by two architects, Elias Kalach and Teddy Nanes in México City, Vertebral officiates in both the architectural and landscape worlds. © VERTEBRAL “The studio is not governed by an aesthetic ideal or a geometric predisposition,” explains the designer duo, “but by a research that births from observation, in order to approach the […]
THE RADICAL POETRY OF JOAO CEPEDA
Having worked for some of the world’s greatest architects, Portuguese architect Joao Cepeda now works under his own name. A singular architectural solfeggio, combining radicalism and osmosis with nature. ©Rendergram “In constant search of the essence. Keen to avoid fashion or trends of any kind. Seeks serenity. Focuses on architecture’s sole central support, materiality and […]
THE COLLECTOR’S HOUSE BY TOM DIXON
Design Research Studio presents its avant-garde version of a collector’s home for the penthouse apartments at One Park Drive in London. Since 2007, Tom Dixon and Helene Bangsbo Andersen have been creating the spaces and objects of tomorrow through Design Research Studio. The radical vision of this innovation consultancy lends itself to the notion of […]
GEORGE BYRNE, FRAGMENTS OF THE CALIFORNIAN DREAM
Under his lens, the city becomes a supernatural environment. Since his arrival in California in 2010, Australian-born George Byrne has built up a portfolio that transforms architectural structures and urban landscapes into painterly abstractions. In their wanderings, they capture fragments of the Californian setting in a set of geometric lines between concrete, sky and […]
DAVID ALTRATH CAPTURES AN OASIS OF FLAVOUR ON THE CANARY ISLANDS
The German photographer’s work focuses on the interaction between architecture and landscape. This graduate of design, art and media at the Merz Academy in Stuttgart creates visual narratives that combine perspective, play of light and depth of space. His recent Ocean View series on the terrace of the Kamezí Deli & Bistró restaurant in Lanzarote […]
BEIRUT MODERNIST, MEMORY OF LEBANESE ARCHITECTURE
Photographer Matthieu Salvaing and art dealer and gallery owner Guillaume Excoffier offer an instructive overview of the heritage and richness of Lebanese architecture in this beautiful book. This 320-page book, published by Éditions Norma, opens the door to the laboratory of architectural modernity in the Middle East. Beirut Modernist spotlights anew Lebanon’s creative force, from […]
GENIUS LOCI : THE 2023 EDITION
Genius Loci, a programme of immersive exhibitions curated by Marion Vignal, brings together architectural heritage and contemporary creation. Each edition highlights hidden or little-known architectural treasures, and provides exceptional access to private locations usually closed to the public. After the villa “l’Ange Volant” chosen for the 2021 edition, created in 1921 by architect and designer […]
CLIFFHANGER HOUSE, A VERTIGINOUS REFUGE IN AUSTRALIA
For the past twelve years, Joe Adsett Architects has been applying his deep-rooted passion for designing buildings that stand out, respond to the eccentricities of the terrain and stand the test of time. Cliffhanger House is just one of such a building. The impressive, elegant and durable structure takes the form of a folded concrete […]
LOS VILOS, A WAVE OF CONCRETE BY RYUE NISHIZAWA
The Japanese architect has designed a splendid weekend house on the Chilean coast. An ideal refuge for lovers of nature and architecture. Anchored facing the Pacific Ocean, Ryue Nishizawa’s House in Los Vilos echoes the raw, overwhelming beauty of the surrounding landscape. Positioned at the tip of a promontory, the house fits into a long, […]
LINEARCURVATURE : “BEHIND THE WALLS ARE SO MANY STORIES”
Veronica isn’t very talkative when it comes to her persona. “I’d simply prefer to be known as Linearcurvature,” she warns. A graduate of New York’s Parsons School of Design, she didn’t embrace the arts she’d studied once out of school until she took up photography four years ago. “I ended up going into social work […]
L.A.M STUDIO OR THE POWER OF MINIMALISM
For its second edition, Offscreen, the arts event dedicated to image exploration, has enlisted the services of Léonie Alma Mason, set designer, interior architect and head of L.A.M Studio. It’s a happy union, and a good excuse to take a look back at the designer’s career. Behind the old-fashioned but furiously pop facade of the […]
GIGI CHUNG, ARCHITECTURAL ABSTRACTION AT ITS MOST ABSTRACT
The California-based photographer sublimates the forms of architecture and urban spaces in a striking interplay of contrast, colour, light and shadow. Abstract architecture is at the very heart of the concept of sublimating urban spaces. Gigi Chung’s singular style is a blend of culture and architecture, art and design, observation and inventiveness. The photographer lived […]