TECTONIC HOUSING

On the east coast of the island of Rhodes, where two tectonic plates meet, a fault line creates a break in the desert landscape. It is along this natural incision that the architecture firm Aristides Dallas has imagined a hotel project as a second skin on the ground. Inspired by the centuries-old history of this […]

SOMEWHERE IN PARADISE

Cinco Sólidos is a Colombian design and architecture studio based in Medellín. Combining interior design, architecture, branding, furniture design, and project management, the studio’s international creations are renowned for their dreamy aesthetic. One example is this fascinating hotel project on a Caribbean Island. On the cliffside, with a breathtaking 180° view of the ocean, suspended […]

“Norfolk”: when Koichi Takada reinterprets the magic of pine trees

Inspired by the local conifers of Norfolk, this project by Koichi Takada is a sculptural building in Burleigh Heads, Queensland, Australia. Decorated with organic forms reminiscent of pinecone scales, the building was designed for this 1,000-square-meter beachfront site at Goodwin Terrace at the southern end of Burleigh Heads Beach. Ten stories high, it houses fifteen […]

LYRICAL CONVOLUTIONS

Do you know Harbin, an industrial city in Manchuria, with a wild nature and icy climate? It is in this Chinese province that the opera designed by MAD Architects is located. More than a cultural center, it is a spectacular public space that draws a link between man, art, the identity of the city, and […]

Oceanix City, the resilient city project by BIG

The studio of Danish architect Bjarke Ingels unveiled its prototype at the second United Nations Roundtable on Sustainable Floating Islands. Designed for the city of Busan in South Korea, with local studio Samoo, Oceanix aims to provide cutting-edge technology to coastal cities facing severe land shortages, exacerbated by climate threats. Accommodating up to 12,000 people, […]

Solo Houses, the first architectural collection 

In 2010, the Solo Houses project was born in the minds of Christian Bourdais and Eva Albarran. French gallery owners based in Spain, this duo is fascinated by contemporary creation and architecture. From this love was born the desire to transcend the gallery environment and broaden their horizons. Solo Houses was born. Located in the […]

Mexican architecture: three residences that do not leave one indifferent

Acumen takes you to Mexico to discover three private houses with unexpected architecture. Overlooking a beach, blending into the irregularity of nature or contrasting with its solid concrete appearance, these residences are as different as they are impressive. The Extraviada House – em-estudio On a green hillside facing the Pacific Ocean, the Extraviada House is […]

The new Albert-Kahn Museum by Kengo Kuma

After six years of work, the venerable museum in Boulogne-Billancourt is finally reopening. The program for this project, designed by Kengo Kuma, includes the rehabilitation of eight buildings, as well as the construction of a new one. As a common thread, the Japanese architect chose a traditional element of Japanese architecture: the “engawa”, a space […]

 Francis Kéré in four dates

The Burkinabe is the first African architect to win the prestigious Pritzker Prize, a true Oscar for architecture, which he received on March 15. Here is a look back at four key dates in his career. 1965: Diébédo Francis Kéré was born in Burkina Faso, “one of the least educated and poorest countries in the […]

Hybrid architecture, a bridge to the future

By disrupting our lifestyles and our way of working, the pandemic has accelerated the already existing trends of nomadism and coworking, leading to the exploration of new, open-plan and informal spaces. L’Atelier du Pont has thus imagined three settings conducive to exchanges, thanks to the harmony of materials with which this architectural firm likes to […]

OBSERVE THE WILD REINDEER

Located in Hjerkinn, Norway, the Wild Reindeer Lodge overlooks the mountains of Dovrefjell National Park. An emblematic place in Norwegian tales and myths, this mountain range is home to the last herds of wild reindeer and musk oxen in Europe. To observe these rare animals in peace, the collaborative architecture and landscape studio Snøhetta has […]

The fantastic machines of the sculptor Arcangelo Sassolino

It all starts in Italy, land of artists and architecture. Arcangelo Sassolino was born in 1967 in Vicenza, Italy, and grew up in Trissino. Passionate about new technologies, he creates a three-dimensional puzzle game reminiscent of the Rubik’s Cube and is then hired by Robert Fuhrer at Nextoy LLC, the representative of Casio Creative Products. […]

Hôtel Mi’Le: CHOREOGRAPHED AUSTERITY

In the Yunnan province, in the art city of Dongfengyun, stands a hotel that is at once austere, simple, and authentic. While the building, which covers nearly 40,000 square meters, may seem to bear the marks of time, it is in fact the work of Chinese artist Luo Xu and interior design firm Cheng Chung […]

India Mahdavi’s five iconic designs

Architect and designer India Mahdavi has just given a new lease of life to La Gallery, one of the five spaces at the Sketch, a must-see for any London food lover. We take a look at five of her most iconic creations. – The Sketch Highly Instagramable, this table in the British capital is an […]

KRIJN DE KONING  

Architectural fictions Playing with the confusion of content and form, support and painting, like Daniel Buren, whose student he was, Krijn de Koning (born in 1963 in Amsterdam) transforms public space into pictorial space. Sometimes drowned under swathes of bright colors, transformed into colored surfaces, sometimes colonized by modular structures – Farbenstrukturen (colored structures) -, […]

Photo: Le Corbusier’s work revisited

A tutelary figure of architecture who no longer needs to be introduced, Le Corbusier saw his work immortalized in his time by the medium of photography. Even today, photographs from the time of the construction of some of these buildings are used to illustrate his achievements. The Museum für Gestaltung Zürich proposes to change our […]

Ettore Sottsas Casa Lana moves to the Triennale

After dedicating a monograph to him in 2017, the Triennale is once again paying tribute to Sottsass by reproducing one of his creations, the Casa Luna. This private residence, designed in the 1960s by the great Italian master, can now be visited by all. The heart of this cozy place is delimited by several sofas […]

Aleksandra Shevchenko : TO BE FREE, SIMPLY…

Ukrainian architecture and interior design studio, Aleksandra Shevchenko is known for her brutalist minimalism. Each of her projects seduces with its clean lines and natural materials. Very attached to concrete, the young woman strives to restore the soul of this mineral material in organic designs. Like this “Freedom” project, which aims to break with the […]

Minismalise and terrazzo, the winning equation of the Tin Tin restaurant 

Recently opened in the bustling Chandigarh, in northern India, this new Toy Hotel venue, designed by Renesa architecture studio, offers an intimate space. Punctuated by elegant arches, created with terrazzo in shades ranging from jade to brown to veined white, the Tin Tin evokes a cave of another kind. Incredible stone was worked and laid […]

A winter cocoon in the metaverse

The designer Andrés Reisinger creates his virtual house in collaboration with the architect Alba de la Fuente Dreamlike, soothing colors, transparency are the key words of the “Winter house” project: a concept specially designed for the metaverse. The two artists wanted to build a haven of peace and tranquility by making the house emerge in […]

Agostino Iacurci, the muralist who revisits the history of art

An Italian artist based in Berlin, Agostino Iacurci is known for his monumental frescos. He creates works for private or public institutions from Taipei to London, and even Las Vegas, but it would be a shame to miss his achievements on a more human scale, where he questions the perception of art, like “Gypsoteca,” an […]

The free forms of the Casa Orgánica   

© Casa Orgánica & Leandro Bulzzano

If the American architect Frank Lloyd Wright opened the way to organic architecture – that style of construction that embraces its environment – it is the Mexican Javier Senosiain who pushed it to its paroxysm with the Casa Orgánica, a manifesto house built in 1985 in the Mexico City area.  An architect, Javier Senosiain is […]