DESERT X 2023 OR SOCIO-ENVIRONMENTAL AWARENESS
For its fourth edition, the international art exhibition continues its commitment to contemporary creation through the works of twelve artists in the Coachella Valley. Focus on four. Desert X continues to examine the changes that are shaping a world increasingly dominated by the climate crisis, globalism, and political and economic migration. Twelve artists from Europe, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]