BOTTEGA VENETA’S UNDERSTATED LUXURY IN CHINA
In the heart of a skyscraper in the trendy Sanlitun district, in Beijing’s busiest shopping center, the Italian label’s apartment radiates its interiors in a serene atmosphere. Chinese architecture firm Cheng Chung Design (CCD) has designed a series of luxury serviced apartments themed on secular brands. One Sanlitun by Bottega Veneta is one of them. […]
BOTTEGA VENETA’S UNDERSTATED LUXURY IN CHINA
In the heart of a skyscraper in the trendy Sanlitun district, in Beijing’s busiest shopping center, the Italian label’s apartment radiates its interiors in a serene atmosphere. Chinese architecture firm Cheng Chung Design (CCD) has designed a series of luxury serviced apartments themed on secular brands. One Sanlitun by Bottega Veneta is one of them. […]
A SPECTACULAR NEW LIBRARY IN CHINA
Located on a hillside on Shuangyue Bay in Guangdong Province, China, the Library Water Drop is a sight to behold for all book lovers. This superb circular architecture is designed by the Chinese studio 3andwich Design / Hei Wei Studio. Its design, surmounted by a water basin and overlooking the sea, overflows with poetic interaction […]
THE VINEYARDS FIELD OF ARCHITECTURAL EXPERIMENTATION
Recently, the field of wine has become a source of artistic expression. Many vineyards call upon architects to transform their cellars and create places that delight our taste buds as well as our eyes. Acumen shares with you four of these architectural follies. Bodegas Ysios, Spain In the heart of the wine region of La […]
UMBRELLA HOUSE A NEW HISTORICAL ARCHITECTURE ON THE VITRA CAMPUS
Famous for its extraordinary architectural park, the Vitra Campus inaugurates a third iconic building, the Umbrella House, designed by Japanese architect Kazuo Shinohara. Built in a district of Tokyo in 1961, this masterpiece was acquired by Vitra to preserve it for posterity. Rebuilt identically on campus, the “Umbrella House” is a testament to Shinohara’s early […]
PHILIA GALLERY EXHIBITS IN TWO VILLAS BY JEAN NOUVEL
This breeding ground for talent promotes artists and designers, from modern art and contemporary sculptural design, by taking over places as legendary as they are unusual, to make them the setting for its exhibitions. The innovative approach of the Attali brothers’ Philia gallery is to create a true dialogue with the history of places in […]
CASA TO ISTANBUL AND LONDON MEETING IN MEXICO
Located in southern Mexico, Casa To is a unique boutique hotel. Designed by Ludwig Godefroy, the venue offers only nine suites, to favor the tranquility of its customers. As for its look, with its brutalist accents, the architect has designed a reinterpretation of an Oaxacan temple, in order to generate a sensory experience from the […]
A new real estate Eldorado in the metaverse?
With The Row, The Alexander Team and Everyrealm are building the architectures and worlds of tomorrow with virtual stars. “The metaverse has no physics, no weather and no limits other than human ingenuity,” said Janine Yorio, president of Everyrealm, last July at the launch of The Row on Mona, a Web3 world-building platform. And when […]
A sumptuous X villa in Greece
In the heart of a gently sloping olive grove in Methoni, Greece, stands the Khi House. Its atypical shape and immaculate whiteness contrast with the olive groves of this region of Messinia in the south of the Peloponnese. The villa was designed by London-based Lassa Architects. It was built for a couple of art collectors […]
HOUSE OF ARCHES OR THE HYMN TO THE CURVE
Direction India, and more precisely Rajasthan, where the inhabitants face a desert climate. Temperatures rise to above 40°C for eight months of the year, which led the studio Sanjay Puri Architects to think of an ideal villa for a family with three generations living together, on three levels, to withstand these extremes. Their idea? An […]
THE EXERCISE OF CONCRETE REVIEWED BY NENDO
Design studio Nendo has unveiled its latest project: a villa designed using concrete tunnels, commonly used in the construction of infrastructure projects, such as underground waterways, or the installation of power lines. Designed to store furniture, artwork, and also to host a guest house in Miyota-machi, Nagano Prefecture, the building is located in a quiet […]
THE MONOLOGUE ART MUSEUM
Human contact. We haven’t lacked it since the time of the pandemic. And yet, who hasn’t dreamed of a museum entirely emptied of visitors, so as to make the most, a little selfishly, of incredible works of art and places? An unmentionable little whim made possible by the architecture and design studio Wutopia Lab, in […]
ARCHITECTURE : LILIES ON STILTS
A steep slope, populated by magnificent deciduous trees, foliage, shrubs, birds, and wild animals. It is in this place, with a singular character, typical of the region of Nova Lima in Minas Gerais in southeastern Brazil, that Casa Açucena (“lily” in Portuguese) has made its home. Created by Tetro Arquitetura, Casa Açucena has adapted to […]
SPECTACULAR PROJECTS
A young architect and designer based in Tehran, Iran, Milad Eshtiyaghi is a leader in the minimalist, green, and sustainable architectural style. Committed to ecological design, his works blend into the landscape like chameleons, interacting closely with their environment. Villas suspended between hills, houses on the edge of a dizzying cliff, projects wedged between two […]
A MINIMALIST BOUTIQUE HOTEL IN CHINA
Sumei Skyline Coast, located in Sanya on the tropical island of Hainan, celebrates beauty and relaxation in a play of perfect proportions. Shenzhen-based GS Design has created a minimalist pied-à-terre, clad in white and blue, in reference to the ocean and the waves. The building’s facade plays on the undulation with its rounded windows and […]
Zaha Hadid’s scrolls go to China
The studio of the late Zaha Hadid, who passed away in 2016, has just won a competition for the future Art and Culture Center in the new city of Jinghe, located in the northern province of Shaanxi. True to the style of the British-Iraqi architect, the first woman to be honored with the Priztker Prize […]
Yinka Ilori or the explosion of colors
The London-based, Anglo-Nigerian artist pulsates design in installations, interiors, and object designs that draw on his African origins for colorful new narratives. “Art and design must be accessible to all” is Yinka Ilori’s guiding principle, which he has been putting into practice fabulously for the past five years through his eponymous studio. The multidisciplinary artist-designer, […]
The Treehotel, the new ecological fantasy designed by the studio BIG
The Treehotel, nestled in Swedish Lapland, is known for its tree houses, which have different identities and react differently to the vagaries of the forest. Through a close collaboration with the Treehotel, and Swedish ornithologist Ulf Öhman, BIG’s eighth room will be covered with 350 nesting boxes. This new unit, suspended in the pines, called […]
SHUNGCHANG MUSEUM: BETWEEN SEA AND LAND
With the Longshan mountain range as its company and the Futun stream running through it, the Shunchang Museum weaves together urban construction and natural landscape, and traditional culture and contemporary city dynamism. Part museum, part urban planning exhibition center, part office space, part cultural relics repository, part auditorium, part book bar, part cafe, this majestic […]
A creation designed by Marcel Breuer, revised and corrected
Located in New Haven, Connecticut, the Brutalist building designed by the famous architect, a key figure in 20th-century design, to whom we owe, among other things, the B3 chair, is getting a new lease on life in the hands of the Becker and Becker architecture studio. The result? A 165-room boutique hotel that includes a […]
Small corner of paradise in Lagos
Nigerian architect-designer Tosin Oshinowo, founder of cmDesign Atelier (cmD+A), continues her exploration into modernist, minimalist, and responsible architecture with this coral pavilion, located in the Lagos lagoons. The particularity of this design is that it is located on a peninsula accessible only by boat from the Nigerian city. It thus gives the impression of being […]
Casa Mague, Mesoamerican Paradise
Nestled in Malinalco in the state of Mexico, the Casa Mague project began with a small house built in the 1970s next to an important Aztec archaeological site, the mountain, and in the middle of the historic city. An ideal location in the middle of a wooded area that the owners wanted to enhance. Designed […]
OSCAR NIEMEYER PAVILION
Château La Coste The new pavilion at the wonderful Château La Coste winery, a few kilometers from Aix-en-Provence, is a masterpiece, as undulating as an Alvar Aalto vase delicately set in the heart of the vineyards. And for good reason: it is the last project designed by the great Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer, who died […]
The concept of the LSD Gallery? An ultra-modern apartment redesigned as an art gallery
Nestled in a courtyard in the heart of the Marais, Laurence Simoncini’s gallery was co-created by the architectural collective de Cigüe. The apartment is located in a former 17th century mansion where the founder has established her interior design office with neutral colors: charcoal gray, raw wood, waxed concrete, brass, and subdued lighting. The rooms […]