HALL HAUS OR THE IMPORTANCE OF DIVERSITY IN DESIGN
France In just two years of existence, this French collective has imposed itself on the French scene, fueled by the ambition to make design accessible to as many people as possible, while maintaining high standards and quality. Abdoulaye Niang, Sammy Bernoussi, Teddy Sanches, and Zakari Boukhari are four names to remember. Since 2020, this new […]
CORALIE BEAUCHAMP, HAUTE COUTURE LIGHTING.
Paris – France Softness, sensuality, and poetry emerge. Rounding off the angles of our interiors. It’s been ten years since Coralie Beauchamp launched her collection of “fishnet” lighting fixtures, but the idea was already in the works when she was designing sets for luxury houses, while pursuing her personal research. It took years of experimentation […]
SIR DAVID CHIPPERFIELD IN FIVE POINTS
United Kingdom – London The venerable British architect has been honored with the Pritzker Architecture Prize, the most prestigious award in the discipline. A good opportunity to look back at his career and work. A multitude of typologies In his architectural practice, collaboration has always been fundamental. “The reality is that good buildings come from […]
DELICATE ARCHITECTURAL REVISIT BY STUDIO OKAMI
Belgium – Anvers Back in the 1960s in Antwerp. The green belt of the Belgian port city was a place of architectural experimentation. Among the few interesting villas built, the Beli house, one of the first architectural gems purchased by the clients of Studio Okami Architects. While the building was in a state of disrepair, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]