area 142 – facade
presentazione/introduction The Facade: the role and autonomy of the face – text by Marco Casamonti – photo by Pietro Savorelli antologia/anthology Facade Anthology – edited by Laura Andreini – texts by Bjarke Ingels, …
Sky Health & Fitness Centre
photo by Alex de Rijke The Sky Health and Fitness Centre came about through collaboration between BSkyB’s headquarters masterplan redevelopment team, and dRMM with Arup’s on-going research into sustainable engineered timber construction. As a demonstra …
Troublemakers: The Story of Land Art
Featuring Germano Celant, Walter De Maria, Michael Heizer, Dennis Oppenheim, Robert Smithson, Nancy Holt, Vito Acconci, Virginia Dwan, Charles Ross, Paula Cooper, Willoughby Sharp, Pamela Sharp, Lawrence Weiner, Carl Andre, Gianfranco Gorgoni and Haral …
World War I Memorial Park
World War I is a worldwide forgotten war. There are no longer living veterans to remind us of the importance of this historic event. They can not speak for themselves. So we need to shout. In the US, as in every countries involved, the WWI had a major …
ETTORE SOTTSASS: 1955‐1969
“I have tried as best as I can to gather together the terms of a new vitality and , where and how I was able, to collect the shapes, colours and symbols that could represent the change in the images of this century from an intellectual organization to …
Pigalle Duperré court
The Pigalle Duperré court is A 480 square meters composition made of paint, epdm rubber, metal and plexiglas designed by Ill-Studio in collaboration with Stéphane Ashpool in the hearth of Paris. Whilst the piece reminds the Ill-Studio’s abstract and ge …
The house cast in liquid stone
“A home on a rocky outcrop at the start of the western ghats (highlands),Khopoli, in Maharashtra, India. An area of high precipitation in the monsoons, and equal heat during the summers, the site changes remarkably from March to July, with the onset of …
Urban vision for a new society
photo by Pietro Savorelli Charbel Maskineh: What is your opinion on the quality of the urban space in the historical centre and in the rest of the city? Maroun El-Daccache: The urban space of the old city centre of Beirut will by now be conditioned by …
Il Padiglione Barcellona a Bologna. Una storia di disegni da Mies van der Rohe a Ruegenberg
The cruciform pillar made in Barcelona in 1929 ”Once upon a time…”, you might begin this way to tell the incredible story that begins with the loss of Mies van der Rohe’s Barcelona Pavilion original drawings, caused by the bombings that razed Berlin …