ARCHITECTURE BETWEEN REALISM AND IDEALISM
Egypt – Giza Badie Architects makes a difference with this house in Giza, Egypt, which looks like a giant sculpture without any parallel lines. Mohamed Badie, founder of Cairo-based Badie Architects, ignores established conventions in favor of a direct connection with the natural world. Timeless, organic, complex… These are the keywords of this design in […]
AN EXCEPTIONAL TEA HOUSE IN CHINA
China – Anji Anji is a city in the province of Zhejiang, famous for its bamboo. For some years now, China has been supporting local economic development of high ecological quality. Hatch Architects, based in London, has created a tea house and two pavilions using traditional materials from the region. Formerly a storage room, this […]
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 […]
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 […]
