STUDIO CINCO SOLIDOS: NATURE AND MINIMALISM
At Cinco Sólidos, a Colombian design and architecture studio, minimalism rhymes with integration into the environment. A house of 1100 m² designed to disappear in the mountainside facing the city of Medellín, Casa JL is a beautiful illustration. On the outside, lush nature has taken up residence around the wood and concrete structure as if […]
Studio Aristide Dallas: Ochre, bare concrete and local stone
The architecture studio Aristides Dallas designs this elegant transformation: that of a country house into a luxurious farmhouse, located on the famous island of Cyclades. Not far from the sea, Villa Melissa is resolutely turned towards the wild and singular nature that surrounds it, guiding the view inside the plot, while making us wander via […]
The Salk Institute of San Diego in four points
The setting for the Louis Vuitton cruise show, the brutalist building was designed by American architect Louis Kahn to house a research center. A Sustainable Space: John Salk, who initiated the center, which opened in 1960, asked Kahn to create spacious, uncluttered laboratory spaces that could be adapted to the ever-changing needs of science. Building […]
THE ISTANBUL MUSEUM OF PAINTING AND SCULPTURE
By EMRE AROLAT A former gas factory and warehouses transformed into exhibition spaces; no less than four museums in the making in the new Tersane district, spread out around the old arsenal rehabilitated by the famous Istanbul architect Murat Tabanlioglu; a former freight port transformed into a marina and a new promenade along the Bosphorus […]
A lush valley by MVRDV
The Dutch architectural firm has unveiled the silhouette of its first ever project in South America – “The Hills.” Located in Ecuador, along the Guayas River in Guayaquil, this singular building is a group of six residential towers with organic silhouettes. The objective? To give birth to a “valley” with abundant nature and forms suggesting […]
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 […]