presentazione/introduction
L’utopia del tempo libero testo Daniel Mothé
scenari di architettura/architectural scenario
Massimiliano & Doriana Fuksas/peres peace house
Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa/de kunstlinie
Boeri Studio/extension of a shopping mall
Wingårdh Arkitektkontor k:fem/department store
Kengo Kuma/the opposite house
Jensen & Skodvin/juvet landscape hotel thermal bath, therapy and hotel
Emilio Lopez and Monica Rivera Arquitectos/aire de bardenas hotel
Büro Wehberg/summer spa
the next ENTERprise/lakeside bath
Dominique Perrault Architecte/san pellegrino thermal bath

fotografia/photography
Massimo Vitali/ritrarre l’effimero
Pipilotti Rist & Carlos Martinez/city lounge
Antonio Jiménez Torrecillas/torre del homenaje
Scenic Architecture Office/the green pine garden

intervista/interview
lost in space intervista a Nigel Coats
CL3 Architects/the racing club
DTA Architects/light house cinema
Zhong Song/the song club

letture critiche /critical lectures
il design degli oggetti per il tempo libero intervista a Omar Calabrese

itinerario/itinerary: Canton Ticino

esiti concorsi/competitions

recensioni mostre e libri/exhibition and book reviews

new media


”L‘utopia del tempo libero”

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The plan to reduce working hours and distribute employment amongst more individuals, with a view to guaranteeing a freer, happier existence, is one of the main aims of socioeconomic research,…

peres peace house

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A homeland for all sailors and shipwrecked people. Conceiving a place that is not virtual but real, to dedicate to Peace, is an undertaking of huge commitment and profound ethical…

de kunstlinie

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Almere, a new town west of Amsterdam, is undergoing a dramatic transformation. Within the master plan by OMA, SANAA was selected to design the city’s theater and cultural community center…

extension of a shopping mall

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On the sides of a main road going out of Milan, one doesn’t easily notice the presence of a small two-storey shopping centre, concealed between the invasive throng of bigger…

k:fem department store

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Fifty years after the opening of Vällingby, Sweden’s world famous New Town from 1954, works began with its resurrection. After the glorious days when children and their mothers filled the…

the opposite house

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The current main stream for urban development in the world is the combination of super-skyscrapers + plazas. However for this project, we tried to reproduce a human-scale, maze-like space within…

juvet landscape hotel

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The Juvet Landscape Hotel is located at Valldal, near the town of Åndalsnes in north-western Norway. Passing tourists are attracted by a spectacular waterfall in a deep gorge near the…

thermal bath, therapy and hotel

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The Juvet Landscape Hotel is located at Valldal, near the town of Åndalsnes in north-western Norway. Passing tourists are attracted by a spectacular waterfall in a deep gorge near the…

aire de bardenas hotel

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The site for the four-star hotel is a wheat field, located 3km from Tudela’s town center and 4 km from the Bardenas Reales de Navarra, a spectacular natural park with…

summer spa

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The floating spa, symbol of an independent isle to arrive, retreat and become one with the element of water. The reduced style of interior design as well as the clear,…

lakeside bath

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Kaltern Lake is a nature reserve and access is restricted to a few bathing establishments on the Northern shore, the only public one being our site. The project‘s intention is…

san pellegrino thermal bath

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Restoring San Pellegrino to its former splendour of the early 20th century has been an intervention of high quality. We developed our ideas, with the intention of outlining a new…

ritrarre l‘effimero

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Beaches thronging with holidaymakers, ski stations seething with skiers coming and going, swimming pools, discothèques packed with youths deafened by the music…Massimo Vitali’s photographs portray the rituals of modern-day entertainment…

city lounge

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Once you enter the area between the Vadianstrasse, Schreinerstrasse, Gartenstrasse and Kornhausstrasse, the redesigned Raiffeisen quarter reveals one of the main objectives of its concept before you have even set…

torre del homenaje

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The Torre del Homenaje at Huéscar is a military watch tower which, following the conquering of the city in 1434, was lopped off and became part of the domestic surroundings….

the green pine garden

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The project locates besides the highway from Shanghai to Zhujiajiao, with a 30,000 sqm green land and two factory buildings inside that are now renovated as a restaurant and a…

lost in space

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Guido Incerti: This issue of Area is dedicated to the theme of leisure and enjoyment: what is your idea of enjoying yourself through your work? Nigel Coates: I get real…

the racing club

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The Racing Club is a new concept created by the Hong Kong Jockey Club to entice younger members to join the club. The program is to create a young, trendy…

light house cinema

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DTA Architects were commissioned in December 2006 to realise the recreation of the Light House Cinema. The architectural challenge of this project was to combine the ‘insertion’ of four cinema…

the song club

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The Song Club is a specialized Club for music with multiple functions consisting of a restaurant, bar, showroom, VIPs room and CD store. In order to avoid a space with…

il design degli oggetti per il tempo libero

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Laura Andreini – Once upon a time, design and designers, clearly prompted by companies, created objects that could be defined as “useless”, or better, dedicated to leisure and free time….