UK HOUSE : MODERNITY STEEPED IN HISTORY
Swiss studio Christ & Gantenbein has designed the interiors of a new lobby at UK House in Oxford Street, London. This mixed-use building, built in 1906, was converted to office space after the 1970s. Two of its original facades remain, with baroque forms and Edwardian style, while the others have a more modern style. Christ […]
TWO TOWERS IN DIALOGUE IN BROOKLYN
Two new skyscrapers are going up in the residential neighborhood of Greenpoint in Brooklyn. This is the work of the architectural firm OMA, which is designing its first high-rise project in New York. The design, called Eagle + West, is the result of a collective ambition with Brookfield and Park Tower Group to create “a […]
XC273, RAW BEAUTY BY DONGQI DESIGN
In the heart of the city of Shanghai stands a former factory, now converted into a luxury boutique, called XC273. The beauty of this three-story building caught the Dongqi Design team’s attention: “The raw structure was really exposed in all its splendor.” In order not to detract from this poetry, the architectural team chose to […]
BEHIND THE GLASS, LINA BO BARDI
Born Achillina Bo in 1914 in Italy, Lina Bo Bardi is an architect known throughout the world for her thoughtful creations, but also for the scale and fluidity of the spaces she has created throughout her life. This multi-faceted Italian artist is also a major name in the Modern Movement, advocating spontaneity, inspiration of social […]
YOUNA NATURE RESORTS, A COCOON IN THE ALPINE REGION
Peter Pichler’s Milanese architecture laboratory, which has worked with Zaha Hadid Architects, Delugan Meissl and Rem Koolhaas’ OMA, has developed a hospitality concept consisting of tree houses in the heart of the Alpine region. “Youna Nature Resorts” includes inclined wooden structures that merge with their natural surroundings. The construction mimics both the archetypal gabled roof […]
TEMPLE OF BOOM, THE PARTHENON POP VERSION
A true icon of Western architecture, the Parthenon, erected in the fifth century B.C. on top of the Acropolis in Athens, has been given a look-alike of a different kind, in the gardens of the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne. Designed by Melbourne architects Adam Newman and Kevin Tsang, this new version of the […]
WHEN SPACES COMBINE DESIGN AND PLEASURE
The Chinese studio X+Living conceptualizes immersive spaces that are playful, aesthetic, and heuristic, which also stimulate the senses. X+Living, founded by Chinese architect and designer Li Xiang, has been involved in multidisciplinary interior and architectural projects for over ten years. Its field of expertise is wide: retail, office, hotel, shopping malls, parent-child. With the motto […]
THE MOCO MUSEUM CONCEPT STORE BY SIX N. FIVE
The Moco Museum, dedicated to modern and contemporary art, opened its doors in Barcelona in 2021. Since then, it has been showcasing renowned artists (Keith Haring, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Tracey Emin) and emerging talents (OsGemeos, Icy & Sot, Stik). In 2022, it decided to open its first permanent physical space and entrusted the design to Argentinean […]
A SHOWROOM THAT PUTS ON A SHOW
Built for a real estate developer, the Hovering Kan-Too showroom transforms the urban landscape of Zhongshan City, China. This white volume crowned with orange aluminum ridges is reminiscent of the natural design of the surrounding mountains. True to its architectural sense, Wutopia Lab is committed to reinterpreting traditional Chinese aesthetics in a modern way. This […]
FROM QUARRIES TO CULTURAL SPACES
DnA_Design and Architecture has transformed a series of three quarries in Zhejiang province, taking advantage of their technical characteristics and natural beauty. One of them, Quarry No. 9, has given birth to a space dedicated to the world of entertainment. Carved out of a rock with orange tones, this old quarry can be seen through […]
AESTHÉ, THE NEW AESTHETIC SHOWCASE OF THE G R A M M E ARCHITECTURAL FIRM
In 2014, architects Antoine Prax and Romain Freychet decided to create their own architecture agency and named it G R A M M E. For eight years, the creative duo has been imagining multiple projects in different fields, such as 3D imaging, scenography, and design. Whether it is for their new collection of paper furniture […]
STUDIO MK27 WORTHY HEIR OF BRAZILIAN MODERNISM
“Born in the chaotic city of São Paulo.” This is how Studio MK27 presents itself. Launched at the end of the 1970s, under the aegis of architect Marcio Kogan, the architecture firm, which today has a staff of around 30, affirms its admiration for Brazilian modernism. A movement that it wishes to perpetuate while rethinking […]
THE GLASS HOUSE BY ODILE DECQ
The multi-awarded French architect and urban planner has designed a luminous cocoon in Carantec, Brittany, for a client suffering from progressive and irreversible loss of sight. For Odile Decq, “housing should follow people’s lives, not the other way around. This opalescent parallelepiped glass house is a good example. Natural light is at the heart of […]
RADIO HOTEL AND TOWER, MVRDV’S COLORFUL VERTICAL VILLAGE IN FOUR POINTS
This year, the Dutch architecture studio designs its first project in the United States, in New York City’s Upper Manhattan. Who is MVRDV? Based in Rotterdam, MVRDV was launched by Winy Maas, Jacob van Rijs, and Nathalie de Vries. The goal of this office? To find solutions to contemporary architectural and urban problems. Highlighted by […]
ODE TO MODERNISM
The American studio Woods + Dangaran continues the modernist soul that is so characteristic of California’s cultural identity through seven of their residential projects that sublimate their first monograph. Brett Woods and Joseph Dangaran have established a solid reputation on the Los Angeles architectural scene over the past decade. After studying together at the USC […]
ART VILLA : TROPICAL HOSPITALITY
This magnificent architecture is part of a concept of three singular villas and a tropical pavilion in the heart of the Costa Rican jungle overlooking the Pacific Ocean. Take a guided tour. When an investor wants to create a place where “visitors merge with the surrounding nature, clear their minds, experience luxury and adventure at […]
A MAGNOLIA IN THE HEART OF A HOUSE IN ECUADOR
Ecuadorian architect Felipe Escudero designed a house for his mother, arranged around a central courtyard that frames a magnolia tree placed in a vegetated patio. “Designing a house for a mother is not only an act of design, it is also an act of love.” With this quote, architect Felipe Escudero invites us into the […]
CITY: ONE OF THE MOST POWERFUL WORKS OF ART OF ALL TIME
More than half a century in the making, the American artist Michael Heizer finally opens his pharaonic “sculpture city,” in the heart of the Nevada desert, to the public. Land Art pioneer Michael Heizer’s legendary City (1970-2022) seems to emerge from another world with its abstract forms, composed of sand, compacted earth, rock, and concrete: […]
IN THE HOLLOW OF THE GREEK CLIFFS
The philosophy of the Façade studio lies in its constant desire to redefine architectural thinking. To do so, the founders take us to Geni, a village in Lefkada, Greece, surrounded by rocky cliffs and the Ionian Sea. The project, called “Wedge,” won the Architizer A+Awards 2022 Jury Award. This complex, under construction, consists of two […]
SHIMMERING POETRY
Mathieu Forest Architecte and Zone of Utopia lend a hand and unveil the multifaceted nature of ice architecture. The two Paris-based studios have created an “urban indicator” for the cultural tourism center in Xinxiang, China, to bring together this new tourist district, which will be dedicated to winter sports. More than a building, Ice Cubes, […]
THE ART OF REJUVENATION IN MEXICO
Clubhouse Valle San Nicolás, located on the edge of the village of Valle de Bravo in the State of Mexico, brilliantly celebrates its surroundings with a 360-degree view of the landscape. The geometric construction is the work of Sordo Madaleno Arquitectos. The Mexican studio shows how natural conditions, such as the mountain and the lake, […]
ARCHITECTURE AS A PLACE FOR CULTURAL EXCHANGE
The Beijing-based architecture firm AOE has produced fine work with this first art center specializing in Sino-Italian cultural exchanges, in content and in form. The objective of this building, located near the city of Chengdu, is to present the respective Chinese and Italian cultures, and thus create an intersection between East and West. The general […]
BETWEEN URBANIZATION AND COUNTRYSIDE IN CHINA
The studio Z-ONE Architects, founded two years ago, explores creative solutions in different sectors, such as culture, media, technology, and the Internet, to better describe the future vision of space design. This large-scale project located in the agricultural park of Nantong, a city in the coastal province of Jiangsu, China, is a good example. This […]
TRANQUILITY IN THE CYCLADES
Four self-contained, eco-friendly, and private summer residences overlook the archipelago of Santorini, the largest island of the Cyclades, a remnant of a volcanic caldera. This geometric complex, designed by the studio Iraisynn Attinom, is primarily intended to be protected from the wind, while maintaining the privacy of the residents, the view of the Aegean Sea […]