area 106 – simplicity

Text description provided by the architects. When contemplating architecture in China, that country’s vast, boundless landscapes can pose a daunting challenge. To build with the diminutive beast that is architecture…

The purifying power of nature, expressed by applying revolutionary technologies to the physical principles of aerodynamics and the absorbency of natural materials such as active carbon, meets the quality of…

Since the outbreak of COVID-19 over one year ago, the world has become a different place. The pandemic’s ongoing presence has created a level of uncertainty that has disrupted daily…

The markilux pergola range has been expanded by the addition of the new “stretch version”. It’s because large awning systems offer suitable protection against both sun and rain. Even in…

”Conjunctions are wholes and not wholes , what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant, from all things one and from one all things” Heraclitus   Stonethica is aimed to a…

The lake house is a private retreat designed as an entertainment space and a break from urban life. Located on a steeply sloping and rocky site overlooking Durgam Cheruvu Lake…

The house was designed for 4 possibilities of expansion, the need to propose changes that guarantee adaptability and the possibility of them being made by the occupier with complete independence…

To complement The Playground Project, the Bundeskunsthalle opened its roof garden and museum square to Outdoor, an exhibition on the subject of ‘Play’, which provided contemporary artists Nevin Aladağ, Kristina Buch, Ólafur…

@Miran Kambič Slovenian practice Arhitektura d.o.o has designed a low concrete house in the suburbs of Ljubljana around a central courtyard that connects a series of living spaces with the…

With its mix of heritage and contemporary architecture, creating exciting communal spaces, the New Museum for Western Australia celebrates the Australian State’s unique culture, history and landscape and contributes to…

photo by BOYSPLAYNICE, TOMÁŠ SOUČEK The overall design of the project reflects the longstanding tradition of glass making that Lasvit represents and promotes. The two traditional buildings from the early…

Chemin des Carrières, the Quarries’ Track, is a lace undulating in the landscape, an invitation to travel as our ambition behind the reconquest of the Rosheim-St Nabor railway in Alsace,…

To reassert the founding principles of the Maillon’s artistic identity and to enshrine an experimental approach to research and artistic creation, as well as to showcase its commitment to fostering…

@Hélène Binet The establishment of the Lycée Hôtelier de Lille on the Fives Cail Babcock (FCB) site is a first and significant step in the introduction of new uses and…

Andrea Benelli: Assistente di Castiglioni ed Eugenio Bettinelli al Politecnico e all’ENSCI di Parigi, collaboratrice con De Padova al fianco di Vico Magistretti, ha coordinato il Gruppo design dello studio…

Situated opposite the old medieval market squarein the Santa Caterina neighborhood, the project consolidates the urban transformation of Ciutat Vella, which has led to the modernization of the historic center…

@GioPontiArchives Architect, designer, art director, writer, poet, critic: Gio Ponti was a 360-degree artist who crossed almost the entire 20th century, deeply marking its taste, reflecting its most significant instances…

@Campus Bocconi Inauguration of the new Bocconi campus designed by Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa of the Japanese studio SANAA. The project involves a lot of almost 35,000 square meters…

@Francisco Nogueira The site is called Altinho probably because it is located at a higher level than the Rua da Junqueira which is located mostly in a lower floor. From…

Since April 20, 2018, the Museo Novecento has periodically hosted Paradigma – Il tavolo dell’architetto (Paradigm – The Architect’s Table), a series of meetings that take place in the right…

Cameo and Ciak: two words borrowed from the world of Italian cinema to identify two collections of indoor downlights from the house of L&L Luce&Light. The analogy is a little…

1 of 4 photo by Simone Bossi photo by Simone Bossi photo by Simone Bossi photo by Simone Bossi Designing, thinking and debating about architecture with the gaze turned to…

  1 of 4 photo by Roberto Conte photo by Roberto Conte photo by Roberto Conte photo by Roberto Conte On September 15th, Edoardo Tresoldi has unveiled “Simbiosi”, his new…

The building is a single-family residence designed specifically for an archaeologist. The volume is a simple rectangular-based parallelepiped in which additional cubic blocks completely covered with stone have been inserted…

1 of 2 Photos by Andreas Graber Photos by Andreas Graber The location of the new sports hall clarifies the outdoor areas around the existing school grounds. The sports hall,…

1 of 2 The project ​Wiltshire Before Christ ​stems from the collaboration between the artist ​Jeremy Deller​, the streetwear brand ​Aries ​and the fashion photographer ​David Sims​, who worked to…

Romanico Automatico is an intervention to enhance the public space that is part of a process of recovery of a neglected area of the historic center of Pistoia, on which…

A cantilevered viewing platform made of weather-resistant steel is what Snøhetta created for the Perspektivenweg trail in the Austrian Alps. A mountain trail consisting of 10 small architectural interventions for…

The proposal Hórama Rama by Pedro y Juana (Ana Paula Ruiz Galindo and Mecky Reuss) was inaugurated at the end of June as part of the 20th edition of the…

Designed as the new gateway to Museum Island, the James-Simon-Galerie was inaugurated on July 13 in the presence of the German Chancellor and David Chipperfield. It will play a significant…

Since April 20, 2018, the Museo Novecento has periodically hosted Paradigma – Il tavolo dell’architetto, a series of meetings that take place in the right wing of the covered loggia…

The Wadden Sea designed by British studio Dorte Mandrup is the largest intertidal sand and mud building in the world. It is made up of intricate interactions between physical and…

@Cyrille Weiner This terraced office building sets a new standard for bioclimatic offices. The project is rooted in the idea of flexible workspaces and is part of a strongly eco-aware…

Point Lonsdale House is a linear beach house composed of four interconnected pavilions, each defined by its own form of vaulted roofing and enclosing within it the separate functions of…

1 of 3 Japanese architect Junya Ishigami has been entrusted with the concept of the new Serpentine Pavilion 2019. For this edition of the Serpentine, the designer has created a…

1 of 3 @Adam Scott @Adam Scott @Adam Scott The new pavilion “The Colour Palace” designed by the young studio Pricegore with the London artist Yinka Ilori opens to the…

1 of 5 Carmody Groarke The Hill House Box Carmody Groarke The Hill House Box Carmody Groarke The Hill House Box Carmody Groarke The Hill House Box The Hill House…

  1 of 5 Yi-Hsien Lee Photography + Yu zu-Chin Yi-Hsien Lee Photography + Yu zu-Chin Yi-Hsien Lee Photography + Yu zu-Chin Yi-Hsien Lee Photography + Yu zu-Chin Yi-Hsien Lee…

1 of 7 The Lien Thong house, where the young family (including the newlyweds and their children) who commissioned this project from Vietnamese studio 6717 Studio lives, has been designed…

The COBE project for the ultra-fast charging station is based on a sustainable rethinking of the conventional charging station. The charging station should not only minimise charging time, but also…

The exhibition “Aldo Rossi and Reason. Architecture 1967-1997”, curated by Cinzia Simioni and Alessandro Tognon with the Aldo Rossi Foundation, presents a selection of architectural works designed and built by…

1 of 7 The project responds to the challenge of combining three different programs along Rue Stendhal in Paris: social housing, a kindergarten and an emergency center. The organization of…

1 of 4 The Royal Academy Dorfman Award is for new architectural talent. It is awarded to an emerging architect, studio or collective who is rethinking the future of architecture…

1 of 4 @Francesco Mattuzzi @Francesco Mattuzzi @Francesco Mattuzzi @Francesco Mattuzzi The urban master plan around the innovation HUB where the It’s headquarters is situated in Rome, symbolises a new…

1 of 4 The Dutch studio plusoffice architects renovated the current town hall in Knotich, a province of Antwerp, into a new communal house where the various services of the…

Goodbye to the Pritzker prizewinner Ieoh Ming Pei, one of the last masters of modernist architecture, and creator of the iconic glass Louvre pyramid in Paris. He died at the…

1 of 5 Designed by the Portuguese studio Flume, this small workspace spreads over a difficult terrain. The issue of the 7-metre slope, which would have required a huge movement…

  1 of 3 Designed by the French studio WAO – Wilde Architecture Object, this installation is part of an amusement park that is based on multimedia and immersive experiences….

The Jury of the 58th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, comprising Stephanie Rosenthal (President of the Jury, Germany), Defne Ayas (Turkey/Netherlands), Cristiana Collu (Italy), Sunjung Kim (Korea),…

The new documentary film by the director Giacomo Gatti tells the story of the extraordinary figure of Andrea Palladio (1508-1580), one of the most influential architects of all time, through…

CH House is located in the northwest zone of Cordoba. The project began with a programme of single-family houses on an irregular corner lot that looked onto the main road…

The Japanese studio Akihisa Hirata Architecture Office completed a mixed-use building in the Toshima quarter in Tokyo to host a multi-generational family as well as exhibition spaces and offices. Characterised…

1 of 4 It is a single block of cement dug at the base of the stairwell that gives access to the upper floors. On the ground floor, the building…

The new museum dedicated to the Bauhaus school in Weimar was inaugurated on the day of the 100th anniversary celebrations from when the school opened in 1919 under the direction…

The house on the Ibleo plateau is a pure architectural work that that recalls Mediterranean motifs, and which aims to blend into the captivating Val di Noto landscape in Sicily…

Pure volumes, interrupted only by small openings, which almost recall the cut of a precious stone with their various irregular sides. This is the project of Ruby City, envisioned by…

The architectural studio 2A+P/A presents the exhibition Disegni e progetti at Antonia Jannone’s historical architectural gallery on the occasion of the Salone del Mobile in Milan. It is a collection…

Inaugurated on April 5, 2019 in New York, the new building by American architects Diller Scofidio + Renfro named The Shed. This new space, nestled among the city’s skyscrapers, will…

The Transformation of 530 homes – Grand Parc Bordeaux by Lacaton & Vassal architectes Frédéric Druot and Christophe Hutin was the winner of the EUMiesAward 2019. The project saw the…

Qatar is a young Persian Gulf nation, a peninsula, a language surrounded by water where the desert reaches the sea inhabited by a nomadic Arab people who settled in this…

Since April 20, 2018, the Museo Novecento has periodically hosted PARADIGMA – Il tavolo dell’architetto, a series of meetings that take place in the right wing of the covered loggia on…

In Florence, a major exhibition celebrates Andrea del Verrocchio, artist symbol of the Renaissance and master of Leonardo da Vinci, and presents itself as one of the leading events, internationally,…

On 18 June 1964 Giorgio Morandi died in his Bologna and Roberto Longhi, one of the most famous interpreters of his work, declared his profound upset: “There will be no…

This last year marks the bicentenary of the publication Manuale tipografico by Giambattista Bodoni, leading to the organisation of an exhibition and study day supported by the Museo Bodaniano di…

Reinterpreting the rural vernacular typology, this new Cotswolds house uses typical hayloft shapes, alternating traditional materials with contemporary materials. Designed by the Bureau de Change studio of architects Katerina Dionysopoulou…

A space for silence and contemplation in the Bavarian Forest was designed by London architect John Powson and commissioned by the Siegfried Foundation and Elfriede Denzel. A place for rest…

Arata Isozaki, renowned Japanese architect, urban planner and theorist, has been selected as the winner in 2019 of the Pritzker Prize for Architecture, the prize known internationally as the highest…

Tate Britain presents a major retrospective of the legendary British photographer Sir Don McCullin. Renowned as one of Britain’s greatest living photographers, McCullin has captured images of conflict from around…

Tuesday, March 19, at 18:00, the Center for Contemporary Art Luigi Pecci opens the exhibition Prato Green. Urban experiments between ecology and reuse, curated by Elisa Cristiana Cattaneo and Emilia…

Suspended between the clouds, but firmly rooted in their surroundings, the executive offices designed by Rome-based architectural firm Alvisi Kirimoto (www.alvisikirimoto.it) occupy the entire 32nd floor of a newly built…

Situated in a suburban zone in Berlin, the new building, designed by Brandlhuber together with Emde e Burlon + Muck Petzet, combines different forms of use. The choice to combine…

The exhibition Letizia Battaglia, located at I Granai di Villa Mimbelli – Museo Civico Giovanni Fattori (Leghorn), will be on display until the 15th of March. Fifty photographs of one…

Tous les jours, the proposal of the curators of the XII International Architecture Biennale of São Paulo in Brazil Vanessa Grossman, Charlotte Malterre-Barthes and Ciro Miguel, aims to display the…

In the countryside surrounding the little village of Varbola, in Estonia, Peeter Pere and Eva Kedelauk used forms belonging to a consolidated language to build on something pre-existing. This is…

“Sanguine. Luc Tuymans on Baroque” will be on show at the Milan branch of the Fondazione Prada until the 25th of February. Organised in collaboration with MHKA (Museo d’Arte Contemporanea…

192 Shoreham Street is an ex-industrial factory built in the Victorian age and which is characterised by its red brick exterior. Situated deep in the suburbs the building was transformed, thanks…

St Mary’s Hall, previously known as St Mary’s Church, is situated in the county of Kilkenny and was founded in the 13th century as the parish church of the city….

A large steel cage, built to house the equipment needed during the Olympic Games that were held in London in 2012, has been completely transformed and adapted to new functional…

On the 27th of July 1980 with the title La Presenza del Passato, the first international architecture show was held by the Biennale di Venezia (curated by Paolo Portoghesi). Portoghesi…

This project is called Limes and is the last piece in Edorardo Tresoldi’s series site specific, a series which was created for the 25th anniversary of the building Illa Diagonal,…

With a project signed by the London studio Heatherick, the new Coal Drops Yard was opened on the 26th of October in the heart of London in the King’s Cross…

After 12 years of heritage conservation and revitalization, a major new arts complex has opened to the public in Hong Kong. the site, which is located the commercial center of hong…

The clients, Janice Turner, who leads the uniform design studio Field Grey, Mike Blackwell, and their dog Queenie, approached Office S&M to replace a poorly built lean-to behind their terraced…

The RIBA International Prize 2018 prize was awarded to the Children Village project of the Aleph Zero studio by the Brazilian architects Gustavo Utrabo and Petro Duschenes together with the…

Grand opening ceremony will be held to coincide with national celebrations to mark Finnish Independence day as Finns get their first chance to visit “the nation’s birthday gift to its…

Proposed by Safra Group and Foster + Partners, owners and architects respectively of The Tulip is a new public cultural and tourist attraction which would be sited next to 30 St Mary Axe, also known…

High density of construction, lack of natural light, stuffy space, and lack of connection are typical features of housing construction in Danang, Vietnam. These features are the old forms of the…

Embedded in the heart of the CEPT University campus designed by B. V. Doshi, the CEPT Library is envisioned as a space for catalyzing connections between students and faculty of the…

After a series of similar projects, the team of orizzontale returned to work on a suburb of Rome. At this time, it is about Largo Bartolomeo Perestrello in Marranella area, inside “Municipio…

In line with the architects’s idea according to which each work is unique, regardless its dimension or budget, the architectural practice CORREIA/RAGAZZI ARQUITECTOS has pursed quality through its project’s innovation and rigor one more time….

The Golden City project is developed based on the winning entry of KCAP Architects&Planners and ORANGE Architects for the urban and architectural competition for the western most tip of the…

Otravisión is an intervention that aims to celebrate the plaza by providing passers-by with the opportunity to see the space from an entirely new and unpredicted point of view. Visitors will…

Undressing what exists and transforming what is necessary to create a sequence of interrelated spaces has been the greatest objective of this rehabilitation. To give value to certain pre-existing elements…

René Redzepi meets Bjarke Ingels. The award-winning restaurant noma worked with BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group to create its new home as a restaurant village just outside of Copenhagen’s city center. Image…

Audio Architecture is the name of the recently opened exhibition at the 21_21 Design Sight museum in Tokyo.  Directed by the multifaceted designer Yugo Nakamura, this exhibition investigates and experiments on…

The architects Massimiliano and Doriana Fuksas have taken part in global renewal for Marseilles commercial and industrial Harbour called “Euromediterranée”, which is an urban development that involves various international architecture competitions. From that comes the EUROMED…

Commissioned by CIDS and INFONAVIT — the main Mexican Housing Institutions reshaping Mexico’s mortgage market and promoting sustainable housing development — Parque Colinas del Sol and Parque Los Héroes, both…

presentazione/introduction Architecture: the art of stimulating perceptive skills text by Marco Casamonti editoriale/editorial The sense of place. Notes on architecture and senses. text by Luca Galofaro letture critiche/critical lectures Façades – faces…

presentazione/introduction Living in a complex system text by Marco Casamonti editoriale/editorial NextGen infrastructure: places of (resource) aggregation and (public) congregation text by Hillary Brown letture critiche/critical lectures Landscape infrastructures: air, soil and…

presentazione/introduction Architecture versus wine text by Marco Casamonti editoriale/editorial Where destinies cross – text by Paolo Giardiello letture critiche/critical lectures Pantagruel – text by Pietro Carlo Pellegrini About wine. Design, tourism and territories…

presentazione/introduction Hong Kong: a unique city text by Laura Andreini panorama/panorama Hong Kong XIX-XXI century: a timeline Hong Kong‘s Historical Maps editoriale/editorial Hong Kong, permanent laboratory of the future text by Luca Molinari…

NextGen infrastructure: places of (resource) aggregation and (public) congregation By the end of this century, the infrastructural landscape may look radically different from that of today. The interlinked effects of…

Parking houses should be an integral part of the city. But how can we challenge the monofunctional use of the conventional parking house? How do we create a functional parking…

The density, that is, the proximity among people but also among people and things as well as among houses, has suddenly become a positive and appreciated value of modernity, contravening…

The Ground Tour Project Searching for a New Travelling Legacy In order to think of a Ground Tour, try to imagine the educational patterns and values of the historical Grand…

The new headquarters for Amorepacific, Korea’s largest beauty company, is located in the centre of Seoul at a site which has been occupied by the company since 1956. It is…

Apple Piazza Liberty is an ensemble of two fundamental elements, a stepped plaza and a fountain. Located just off the Corso Vittorio Emanuele – one of the most popular pedestrian…

The third price project of the competition entitled “Polo scolastico onnicomprensivo innovativo Area sud per la realizzazione di Poli educativi Territoriali permanenti” organized by the Municipality of Palermo, is designed by AFSa and Aei Progetti, in collaboration with…

A typical Milanese casa di ringhiera (a traditional tenement with communal balcony) transformed into a design hotel: this is the Savona 18 Suites, the project that Aldo Cibic has created…

UNA è lieta di presentare la mostra personale di Simone Monsi: New Blabs on Clouds and Planes, secondo appuntamento del programma espositivo annuale in collaborazione con Spazio Leonardo, il nuovo…

C House is a detached house situated in a low density residential area, designed by SELF Architecture, directed by Giacomo Delbene and Massimiliano Giberti. There are two primary demands from clients: the first is to be…

From June 30 to the end of July 2018, the Fondation Beyeler will be showing a project by the Brazilian artist Ernesto Neto (b. 1964 in Rio de Janeiro) in…

This is the title of the new project by teamLab, an art collective, interdisciplinary group of ultra technologists whose collaborative practice seeks to navigate the confluence of art, science, technology, design and…

GOODMAN is the new interior design by the Spanish team ZOOCO. Beginning with the establishment of the Goodman Offices Project in Spain, we found an open space, where the nucleus of the…

The 32 luxury apartments surrounded by the wonderful frame, made of Casa della Pietà and its Medieval Tower at Piazza dei Signori, right in the Verona city centre, have been…

Il bando della seconda edizione del Premio Berlino si rivolge ai giovani architetti italiani che operano nel settore del riuso e della rigenerazione urbana. Il premio, iniziativa del Ministero degli Affari…

On the occasion of the 16. Biennale of Architecture in Venice, Area interviews Massimo Alvisi and Junko Kirimoto, founders of Alvisi Kirimoto, the design team formed in Rome in 2002. Alvisi and Kirimoto’s main ideas are based on the requalification of landscape and on the…

Fjordenhus is the first building designed entirely by the polyhedric artist Olafur Eliasson, Sebastian Behmann and the architectural team Studio Olafur Eliasson. Beginning from the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2007, designed together…

“Public Luxury – Architecture, design and the fight for the public realm“ Public Luxury is the new exhibition by ArkDes, Sweden’s national centre for architecture and design, that proposes a dense, eclectic exhibition…

Located in Brunico, Italian South-Tirol, the project by the architects Barozzi Veiga consists of the extension of the Music School, located in the historical villa Casa Ragen. The difficulty of the project…

Flores i Prats, the architectural practice based in Barcelona founded in 1998 by Ricardo Flores and Eva Prats, after many collaborations with Enric Miralles, is among the ten architects selected for the Vatican Chapel Pavilion, which represents the Vatican…

Restoration and Connection The Abbaye de Villers (Villers Abbey), within an area of more than 36 hectares, is a destination site imbued with history and emotion. The Villers-La-ville abbey site is crossed…

Milano-Mosca. How Mega-Events speed up the process of urban regeneration in cities. Cascina Merlata Masterplan Expo 2015 (Milan) Large international events work as triggers for local development and bring tangible advantages…

Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) provides a new typology of residential building that is customizable and buildable everywhere in Earth. Proving that “space“ and “housing quality“ are actually not separate concepts, the design…

From May 25th to May 30th, 2018, the Unfolding Pavilion, a project by Daniel Tudor Munteanu and Davide Tommaso Ferrando and Sara Favargiotti, will open its doors to the public. In its 2018 edition, the Unfolding Pavilion…

Manifesta 12 Creative Mediators Bregtje van der Haak, Andrés Jaque, Ippolito Pestellini Laparelli and Mirjam Varadinis have unveiled the concept for the upcoming Manifesta 12 biennial in Palermo, opening on…

The Embassy and General Consulate of the Kingdom of the Netherlands presents, in collaboration with Het Nieuwe Instituut: LIMBO SPACE, the third edition of the Greenhouse Talks. The event will take place…

On May 7th, 2018, The  Danish Architecture (DAC) moves to the BLOX, its new venue that is much more than a building: a new destination on Copenhagen’s harbour front located in between Langebro…

More and more, year after year, thousands of people come to Milan during the Design Week. Indeed, this is an unmissable event for those who are keen on architecture, design…

Held outdoor for the first time, Euroflora, the international flower show in Genoa, Italy, moved into the gardens of the Parks of Nervi and invited architects, naturalists and garden designers…

The new project by Heatherwick Studio, the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (Zeitz MOCAA), has been unveiled to the public on 22 September 2017 at Cape Town’s V&A Waterfront. It represents the world’s…

VENICE – From April 6 2018, the Event Pavilion presents Greetings from Venice, a site-specific installation by the Italian artist Elisabetta Di Maggio, curated by Chiara Bertola. After the great…

Intergenerational home rethinks family living and expresses fine details. Betsy and Shane Williamson of the Toronto design firm Williamson Williamson Inc, have completed their third intergenerational home, located in Ancaster, Ontario….

After years of research and education by the University of Study of Florence, LDA_iMdA, founded in 1999 by Gianni Bellucci and Paolo Posarelli, establishes itself as a winning architectural practice, having been invited to exhibit their work…

photo by French + Tye Office S&M is an architecture practice formed in 2013 by business partners Catrina Stewart and Hugh McEwen, that designs bespoke solutions for its clients, to create…

In the spring and summer of 2018, Fondation Beyeler will be presenting two extraordinary protagonists of modern art. Alberto Giacometti (1901–1966) and Francis Bacon (1909–1992) were friends and rivals whose creative visions…

Bourgeois/Lechasseur are the designers of L’Accosté House, located in the Adstock area, on the shores of Lac St-François. The clients have lived on this beautiful site for a few years and enjoy aquatic…

The Exhibition entitled DESIGN DOES. For better and worse, has been co-produced by ELISAVA, Barcelona School of Design and Engineering, and the Barcelona Design Museum. Design does reflect on how…

Comparing with great designers from the XX century has always required architects a significant effort, especially when dealing with places with an architectural character or a special impact on urban scale and social environment….

The biggest collection of electronic bidets on the market, including 16 seats (6 styles and 3 forms) and 14 toilets for 64 possible combinations; the guarantee of advanced technology and…

“Divine Light. Imagining Dante’s Space” This is the title of the incoming event at Franco Zeffirelli Museum in Florence on the 22nd of March 2018, celebrating and anticipating seven hundred years…

Strasbourg has had the status of European capital since 1948; it is the seat of the European Parliament and of the European Court of Human Rights. The city’s authorities quite…

BE BRASIL is an emotional journey into Brazilian design, that visitors will experience during the 2018 Fuorisalone in Milan this year. Thanks to 65 artists, who will be telling the history of the…

Studio Farris Architects, noteworthy architecture firm, redesigns part of the Antwerp Zoo, one of the oldest animal parks in the world. By focusing on the relationship between visitors and animals…

The project is located in Sabah Alahmed Alsabah Maritime City in the southern part of Kuwait. Developed to expand the length of available shoreline, the development brings the sea into…

Tokyo is a curious city. Quoting Robert Venturi, it is a place of complexity and contradictions. Tokyo is a city where you can reach the 13th floor of a massive…

On Saturday 21st of April, VOCI, a new project by Peccioli Municipality, will be opened to the public, in collaboration with Fondaccioni Peccioliper. The unpublished stories by the promising Italian…

Architecture can create the right setting for the enjoyment of an extraordinary meal, contributing to the expression of the restaurant’s values and culture, inspiring sensations and memories in the customer….

The 280m tall high-rise on 88 Market Street, jointly designed by BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group and CRA-Carlo Ratti Associati, is an oasis in the bustling Central Business District of Singapore. The…

The Mexican architect Frida Escobedo, celebrated for dynamic projects that reactivate urban space, has been commissioned to design the Serpentine Pavilion 2018. Harnessing a subtle interplay of light, water and…

To Bore, Engrave, Raise, Traverse The Architecture of Hubmann Vass Architekten in Rivoli invites for an extraordinary perceptual experience. When one approaches from the old nucleus of Rivoli, merely the…

https://vimeo.com/ondemand/escala15 Flores & Prats Architects are honored to announce the release of ESCALA 1:5, on their design for Sala Beckett Theatre and International Drama Centre in Barcelona. A documentary series in 5 episodes…

London-based architecture practice Asif Khan have unveiled their latest project, a super-black pavilion entirely coated in Vantablack VBx2 at the PyeongChang Winter Olym-pics 2018 in South Korea. The building’s exterior…

Galaxia celebrates hope in the unknown, stars, planets, black holes, the movement uniting us in swirling galaxies of dreams. A superior form of Gaia in Isaac Asimov’s Foundation series, Galaxia…

The church of Saint-Jacques-de-la-Lande will be the first church built in France’s Brittany region in the 21st-century. The project has been contracted to the Portuguese architect Álvaro Siza Vieira. Siza’s use of light and…

The Museum’s 2018 season opens with a major exhibition dedicated to the costumes from the film Marie Antoinette by Sophia Coppola. Milena Canonero, a world-renowned costume designer, created these extraordinary garments…

Steven Holl Architects have recently designed the new Institute for Contemporary Art at the VCU, Virginia Commonwealth University, that will open in Spring 2018. The Institute for Contemporary Art (ICA) at…

Troppecolonne e Troppotondo was realised by the Milan based office ZarCola (Federico Zarattini and Edoardo Giancola) with Francisco Rodriguez. The incipient new-born music festival Terraforma contacted the architects in order to create an intervention composed by constructions…

The building is located in a specific climate and cultural context, that of Accra, in Ghana. In this colorful environment of blue and pink, modernity has been represented by the…

If we were to answer a foreign friend about the recognisable symbols of Italian architecture of the last few years, I think we would have a few problems finding a plausible answer. There…

The Project for the new Cultural Centre Caixaforum Sevilla by Guillermo Vázquez Consuegra attemps to coherently resolve two questions that are always important when dealing with interventions on existing buildings…

presentazione/introduction Italian Stories. Architecture between portrait and self-portrait text by Marco Casamonti editoriale/editorial Francesco Borromini text by Paolo Portoghesi Italian stories text by Luca Molinari intervista/interview The project and its story. Michele De Lucchi…

photo by João Morgado The construction of this building came from the desire to have a chapel at the National Scout’s Activities Camp (CNAE), in the municipality of Idanha a…

We are pleased to announce a solo exhibition by Olafur Eliasson, the well-known Icelander artist educated in Denmark, at Espace Muraille, opening 24 January 2018. photo by Studio Olafur Eliasson…

Historical building contains many strong characteristics of space and living and it expresses the significance of the certain age. While facing the renovation of an historical building, the first intention is…

Hong Kong has long had the smallest average flat sizes in the world and it seems that finding a place to live is never been harder than in 2017. According…

Potato Head Hong Kong represents Tokyo-based architect Sou Fujimoto’s first project in the city. The 8,000 square foot space is a collaboration between Fujimoto and PTT Family’s inhouse creative team,…

The proposal by Vaillo+Irigaray Architects, Galar, Vélaz is a way to interveen in a 19th century building and it is a reflection about memory, the pass of time and the evolution of…

Google unveiled its plans for a striking new development in Sunnyvale’s Moffett Park, where thousands of the company’s employees could work in more than 1 million square feet of offices. image by…

Situated at the heart of Muttrah, on Oman’s largest harbor, the new fish market designed by Snøhetta is a tribute to both the past and the future of Oman. The city of…

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The project aims to recover and integrate an old site, already used as an orphanage, built on a portion of a hilly area next to…

Ceiling, wall, fitted, island or worktop hoods, aspirating or filter systems, as well as air purifiers. Objects in a range of shapes, finishes and materials, ‘intelligent machines’ that use sophisticated…

Interpreting changes in ways of working through architecture: this was the aim that DAPStudio successfully achieved. Its starting point was to design the new Milan headquarters of GFT Italia, an…

The island, located in the Seine River, southwest of central Paris, was the site of Renault‘s manufacturing plant from the 1930s until 2005. The 36,500 sqm musical building, will contain…

Modernity, ever since Baudelaire for literature, the Impressionists for painting, Wagner for music, has often consisted of the figure (antagonistic and secretly nihilistic) of unidirectionalism, demythologisation and desacralisation. With the…

Parking houses should be an integral part of the city. But how can we challenge the monofunctional use of the conventional parking house? How do we create a functional parking…

Danish architects COBE and Belgian architects BRUT have won the international competition to design Place Schuman in Brussels, Belgium. The competition was launched in December 2015 by the Brussels Government….

Five different high-impact matches combining rough-look coloured levers with items featuring refined glossy finishes: we looked into the new aesthetic combinations offered by the Boomerang mixer with its creator, architect…

Danish architecture studio CEBRA has completed a new type of 24-hour care centre for marginalized children and teenagers in Kerteminde, Denmark. The tile and wood cladded building plays with familiar…

The project‘s main intention was to create a square on the ground floor, conformed by the extension of the promenade, also to preserve the view of the existing landscape: in…

Ten years have passed since the retrospective of the London Design Museum for its 90 years and since its disappearance that same year. Since then, Sottsass’s work has not been…

Kilden Performing Arts Centre gathers all of the region’s performing arts institutions under one roof. The building includes a 1200-seat concert hall for Kristiansand Symphony Orchestra, a 700-seat theater hall…

“We are all travellers. So, how shall we best traverse the Japanese archipelago? Here’s the answer.” — Hiroshi Hara, architect A pineapple cake’s shop designed by Kengo Kuma; The “fastest museum”…

MVRDV have, with the Tianjin Urban Planning and Design Institute (TUPDI), designed Tianjin Binhai Library as part of a larger plan to provide a cultural district for the city. The building…

Inspired by the pulse of Chicago’s artistic energy, Apple has created a new platform for performance in a city charged by music. Located at the intersection of the Chicago River…

Chiharu Shiota is internationally renowned for her intricate and spectacular thread constructions. In Bergen she will create a new work entitled “Direction” that will fill a large exhibition hall at…

The Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (Zeitz MOCAA) recently inaugurated, is actually the world’s largest museum dedicated to contemporary art from Africa and its diaspora and is designed by internationally acclaimed designers Heatherwick…

WORTH Partnership Project is funded by COSME programme of the European Union to support collaborations between SMEs and start-ups of designers, art & craft and creative people with tech firms and…

The future city is flexible. Have you ever dreamed of sleeping suspended high in the air? How would it feel to sleep inside a vertical hanging garden? What if your…

The site is located in the central area of Sendai city, an area influenced by recent land readjustment projects. It is expected that this area will continue to develop and…

Palm Springs Art Museum is proud to present Albert Frey and Lina Bo Bardi: A Search for Living Architecture – an unprecedented exploration of the surprising but compelling synergy in the…

The winner of the Finlandia Prize for Architecture 2017, selected by Mr Reijo Karhinen, President and CEO of the OP Financial Group, is the Aalto University The new Harald Herlin…

The High Museum of Art continues its innovative multiyear initiative to animate its outdoor space with “Merry Go Zoo” (June 24 through Nov. 26, 2017), a new interactive installation by…

Gateways is an installation consisting of four four-metre high ceramic tiled gates as part of the London Design Festival 2017. Turkishceramics, main partners of the show, has collaborated with London-based designer…

Teulada-Moraira is an unusual urban center. Although it is divided into two separate physical units, Teulada and Moraira, these belong to a single administrative entity. Located in Alicante, in a…

Restyling in Paris: 100 sqm in 16 sqm in the heart of Marais Between Hotel de Ville and Pont Marie, in a block between Rue de Rivoli and Rue de…

For the fourth consecutive year, Universal Design Studio Frieze London, returns as the architects of Frieze London, creating a series of new restaurant and a reconceived entryway installation for 2017, highlighting the…

Algueña is a small village in the interior of Alicante County, with a population of two thousand and an economy based in agriculture and marble industries. We were asked for…

BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group and LEGO bring the toy scale of the classic LEGO brick to architectural scale with LEGO House, forming vast exhibition spaces and public squares that embody the…

The wide technical ceramic sheets MaxFine, designed by FMG Fabbrica Marmi e Graniti, are the ideal solution for high traffic density spaces, like airports, malls, hotels or business centres. MaxFine…

At Skovbakken in Odder, near Aarhus in Denmark, students and teachers welcome their new school designed by CEBRA. A school that, in addition to being the biggest investment in a…

photo by Iwan Baan On the pool side of Naoshima, renowned as an island of art and architecture, Sou Fujimoto Architects designed a small public space where a variety of people including…

Located in the east side of Barcelona, this block built in 1930 consists of two houses almost symmetrical per floor. The floor plan of the project, despite its small size, has…

Tate Britain presents the most substantial survey to date of work by Rachel Whiteread, one of the leading artists of her generation. The exhibition reveals the extraordinary breadth of her career…

Embedded within Harbin‘s wetlands, the Harbin Opera House was designed in response to the force and spirit of the northern city‘s untamed wilderness and frigid climate. Appearing as if sculpted…

presentazione/introduction How to listen to architecture text by Marco Casamonti editoriale/editorial A short walk through space and sound – Seven notes text by Machiel Spaan letture critiche/critical lectures The Opera House under…

Invisible Architecture, published last March by Silvana, is a volume created as a catalogue for the same-name exhibition, which took place last winter in Rome at the Bilotti Museum in…

Today the Italian architecture scene is getting dramatic: decline of suburbs, abandoned buildings, property speculation; in this context the architects are no longer a cultural landmark and a lot of…

“Louvre Abu Dhabi will open in two months. After several years of studies and construction, guests will be able to enter this place of light, this revelatory meeting place of…

Recent years have demonstrated a substantial and sustained increase in the number of student applicants throughout Denmark. As the number of students continues to grow, additional student housing will be…

We wanted to place an architecture that is like a long stick. To be precise, a single, long, and ‘free‘ roof in the forest under which various activities – exercise,…

Located in Cascais, in the metropolitan area of Lisbon, the Social Complex of Alcabideche with a total construction area of approximately 10,000 sqm aims to reconstitute a Mediterranean life style…

The new dwelling house for students is placed in the same plot as the University of Architecture (ETSAV), in a low density residential area in Sant Cugat del Vallès.  The…

Designed by Aires Mateus, Grândola’s new meeting center in Portugal is a pure volume, scratched only by some geometric and sculptural openings, forms derived from the context of the Portuguese…

“As you find in Silicon Valley of the United States, I would like to produce a model case near Tokyo Institute of Technology, creating and developing a synergistic cycle for…

The proposed design for the 2017 Serpentine Pavilion is conceived as a micro cosmos – a community structure within Kensington Gardens that fuses cultural references of my home country Burkina…

The new TIRPITZ  by BIG is a sanctuary in the sand that acts as a gentle counterbalance to the dramatic war history of the site in Blåvand on the west coast of Denmark….

presentazione/introduction The landscape of inhabiting text by Marco Casamonti editoriale/editorial New Times, New Challenges, New Housing text by Avi Friedman scenari di architettura/architectural scenario ANMA/Les Bassin à Flot Housing – text by ANMA…

Fondation d’entreprise Martell has inaugurate an in situ commission, an original protean structure created by Spanish architects SelgasCano, which will occupy the entirety of the vast paved courtyard in front of…

The Art Mill International Design Competition, a global search to find an outstanding team to design one of the world’s leading art galleries in Doha, was won by Chile-based practice, Elemental,…

This year he would have celebrated his 100th birthday: the Austro-Italian designer Ettore Sottsass (1917–2007), one of the most influential and unconventional figures in twentieth-century design. He gained renown with…

As the centrepiece of Copenhagen’s redeveloped Nordhavn (North Harbour), Danish architects COBE  and clients Klaus Kastbjerg and NRE Denmark unveil the completed transformation of The Silo. The former industrial silo was…

Orongo Station is a 1,214-ha sheep and citrus farm on the North Island of New Zealand at the site of both the original Maori landing in 1100 and Captain Cook’s…

The architecture of Albania during the communist regime comes for the first time into the attention of an international audience with the exhibition “Under Pressure – Facts of socialist architecture…

nARCHITECTS designed the exterior and interior spaces of Carmel Place as a repeatable and systemic new paradigm for housing in NYC and other cities with similar housing challenges. Conceived as a…

Three years ago Håvard Lund stood in the office of TYIN Tegnestue. The musician from Gildeskål presented a vision of creating the world’s most beautiful workspace on the isle of…

Fengming Mountain Park is set on a 16,000 sqm site, located in the growing Shapingba District of Chongqing. The site extends south to the old housing quarter, north to the…

The installation of the Louvre lens on one of the pitheads introduce the capacity to change over from economic production to an economy regenerated by a way of inhabiting and…

presentazione/introduction Public Nature text by Marco Casamonti editoriale/editorial Landscape in the centre. For an integration between disciplines text by Isotta Cortesi antologia/anthology Public nature anthology text by David Besson-Girard, Chiara Pradel, Coloco, Michel Desvigne,…

The plan for the 6000 square meter area includes bicycle rentals, a cafe and other shops, an information kiosk, a play area, outdoor stage, and meeting space. The project goal…

Eyes as Big as Plates is a photography series produced in collaboration with over fifty seniors from ten countries. Starting out as a play on characters from Nordic folklore, the…

The garden of the Third Landscape proposed for the Roof of the Submarine Base of Saint Nazaire is made up of species belonging to the Third Landscape of the Estuary…

The Fire Prevention Center Project has transformed the former Fire Station of Lleida Street, Barcelona, ​​built for the 1929 International Exhibition, into an integrated part in the network of cultural…

Issue number 100 of Area inevitably forces us to look inwards and backwards, to reflect on the history of the magazine, how it all began, or rather how the cultural…

White House by SELF Arquitectura s.l.p. is a residence for four families, which is spread over two levels above ground, plus one in the basement. The project was born from the desire to…

Located in the heart of Seoul, a true plant village has been realised by MVRDV on a former inner city highway in an ever-changing urban area accommodating the biggest variety of Korean…

Decades after their separation, the 400-meter-long pedestrian bridge has reconnected three districts in the heart of Rotterdam. The Luchtsingel was initiated and designed by the Rotterdam-based architects ZUS and is…

Moses Bridge by RO&AD architecten is part of the West Brabant Water Line, a defence-line consisting of a series of fortresses and cities with inundation areas in the south-west of the…

At the end of January 2017, the employees of the group IDF Habitat moved into their new headquarters constructed at 59 Avenue Carnot in Champigny-sur-Marne, in the joint development zone…

Alla Cascina Cuccagna si arriva quasi distrattamente, dopo aver esplorato e divorato con frenesia la moltitudine inarrestabile che caratterizza lo scenario della Milano Design Week. Questa antica cascina settecentesca nascosta…

The Megalithic Museum is located at Mora’s urban centre, close to a future public park. The town and region, are well known for its archaeological findings. The museum designed by CVDB…

Bostanlı Footbridge and Bostanlı Sunset Lounge have been designed by Studio Evren Başbuğ Architects as part of the ‘Karşıkıyı’ concept created for ‘İzmirSea’ coastal regeneration project. These two architectural interventions…

Curated by Oliva Sartogo a dialogue with Achille Bonito Oliva Carla Accardi, Chiara Dynis, Eliseo Mattiacci, Mimmo Paladino, Pietro Ruffo, Marco Tirelli, Giuseppe Uncini.  MUSEO D’INVERNO from April 23 till June 11,…

The Association of Professional Landscape Designers (APLD) has announced the names of the Gold Award winners of its annual international landscape design competition. Wilson McWilliam is the only UK winner…

With a completely re-conceptualized conversion and extension, the Wadden Sea Centre – gateway to the UNESCO World Heritage Site – has recently been opened to the public in Ribe on…

The municipality of Dalmine, a city of 25.000 inhabitans in the north of Italy, had the necessity to increase the main cemetery with a new pavilion to host 500 niches…

The project involved the renovation of four historic buildings on a typical Milanese street whose variety of characteristics and histories affords a distinctive glimpse of the “inner” Milan. The renovations…

“We want a distinctive piece of architecture with exposed concrete finish, and environmentally conscious at the same time.” With these words from the clients, we developed a 100% recyclable concrete…

A home in industrial style faithfully reflecting the identity of the owner; a complex project revolving around use of quality materials and surfaces with an unfinished look, creating fluid spaces…

A collection created out of a partnership between Alias and Studio Nendo, summing up the company’s concept of casual chairs and footstools and testifying to the its ability to serve…

The name Quiubox is a combination of the Colombian expression “¿Quiubo?”, meaning “what’s up”, “hello, what is happening”, and a “box”, referring to a small scale architectural object, a container…

“Nature is not a place to visit. It is home”. It is where we should spend our lives, carried away by the enchantment and peace of the countryside. US poet…

A curved, dynamic façade, a bold sign extending horizontally parallel to the infrastructure, a splash of colour that cuts across the space, recalling the graceful movements of oriental dancers. Maina…

Threefold Architects have completed the new UK headquarters for Airbnb, located in a former warehouse in Clerkenwell, London to provide an inspirational and truly flexible ‘no fixed desks’ workspace that…

The challenge is to install real objects, shelters in 1:1 on remote sites and study their response to extreme weather, radical temperature shifts, snow and rugged terrain. The harsh conditions…

presentazione/introduction Custom-made Objects made to measure text by Laura Andreini interviste/interviews Emotional spaces a dialogue with Karim Rashid interview by Laura Andreini Artisans without limits a dialogue with Riva1920 interview by Laura Andreini…

Steeped in Spanish historical and cultural references, Hayon takes us on a visual journey through Spain’s past, mixing architectural details that evoke Roman arches and rich, jewel like tones and…

The problem of urban density and housing costs is global. As unit types get smaller however, micro-housing has the danger of becoming a provisional housing type with little social value….

Paco is a box of 3m x 3m x 3m cube, with a “lid” on top that opens to a certain angle. It is something between architecture and furniture; too…

presentazione/introduction Small works text by Marco Casamonti intervista/interview Microarchitecture and minimal habitat a dialogue with Michele De Lucchi interview by Laura Andreini letture critiche/critical lectures Microarchitecture or macrodesign? Temporary Italian design for emergency text…

The demolition of La Lira Theater left an urban void in the historic district of Ripoll, a town in the province of Girona, overlooking the Ter River. With recollections of…

After a year of events dedicated to the dramatic crisis taking place in the country, Iuav has decided to call out the international architectural culture to give its contribution, in…

Hilma af Klint (1862 – 1944) was a Swedish artist and a pioneer of abstract painting. More than 110 years after producing the arguably first abstract painting in modern art…

YangzhouZhongshugeis located in Zhen Yuan which is next to waterside and in front of the trees. While inheritingthe previous solemn and dramatization, we added arch bridge- an indispensable element of…

Cuban Art Factory is composed of five spaces which we call “Nave“. The first of these spaces (Nave 1) is located on the ground floor where the entrances are located….

presentazione/introduction Havana: from restoration to renewal text by Marco Casamonti panorama/panorama mappa satellitare Havana XX-XXI° century: a timeline edited by Umberto Zanetti, Paloma Herrero Ermakova editoriale/editorial La Habana: roots, revolution and future text…

Background of a busy city is always the randomly standing neon lights. Hurried pedestrians cross the street from one side to the other, from one block to another block by…

The Gran Teatro Alicia Alonso opened its doors at the beginning of 2016 after being closed for over three years for restoration. The whole project consisted in an exhaustive reconstruction…

Built near the international airport of Luxembourg-Findel, Luxembourg Freeport is a building containing premises for storage, showrooms and offices. The project, developed by Atelier d’Architecture 3BM3  (Carmelo Stendardo and B….

Occupying the site of a former theater dating from the 1930s, the existing building had undergone a series of renovations over the decades, during which much of the original character…

The project by Barclay & Crousse Architects is implemented practically on the ruins of what was its predecessor, destroyed by an earthquake in 2006. It retakes its rectangular geometry and compactness. A…

APPAREIL has converted a Barcelona warehouse into co-working office and maker space, on the top floor of a building in Poblenou, the city’s former industrial quarter. Currently part of the…

The team of BIG + TNT Nuuk + Ramboll Nuuk have won the competition to design the new National Gallery of Greenland in the country’s capital Nuuk, among invited proposals totaling 6…

Maunula House is the central cultural and learning hub of a neighborhood being renewed. Located next to Maunula park in the center of the neighborhood of Maunula, the building is…

Faced with the possibility of creating better technological conditions for the interventions of the Cámara de Rejas del Sifón de la Bahía de La Habana, the designers were asked to…

Haussmann, prefect for the department of the Seine from 1853 until 1870, extensively transformed Paris, above and below ground, from the city center to the outskirts. By extension, his name…

Founded in the city of Havana in 1998 by the architect Vilma Bartolomé, Proyecto Espacios is an interdisciplinary group of architects, designers and artists that together create and execute projects…

Foreshadowing the Future The National Art Schools complex, appointed National Monument of Cuba on the 8th of November 20121, embodied the spirit and principles of the Cuban Revolution, first victory…

The S.Pellegrino brand identity is deeply rooted in its origin in the San Pellegrino Terme: from the majestic nature, purity of the source and historical heritage, to the century-long development…

From March 24th to May 7th the exhibition FLOW, Italian and Chinese contemporary art in dialog will be in the Palladio Basilica in Vicenza – Italy. FLOW isn’t just an…

Sala Beckett opens in Barcelona. In open dialogue with history, the architectural project by Flores & Prats has restored the old building of the Pau i Justicia cooperative, adapting it…

The Frankfurt developer Max Baum Immobilien and the Munich investment company Competo Capital Partners purchased a site in the Frankfurt banking district that was then occupied by an office building…

This project has the ambition of becoming a new model for media libraries. The programme calls the functions of a media library into question, lending it the content of a…

Skateboarding was banned in Norway on 1 September 1978, with the intention of preventing serious accidents. This did not discourage the skateboarders, and the skateboarding scene grew steadily. When the…

Krøyers Plads is a significant location in the centre of the Copenhagen harbour area. The site constituted a gap in the continuous rows of old warehouses that sit perpendicular to the…

The opening of the new Experimentarium  by CEBRA Architecture in Hellerup, Copenhagen, lets visitors experience an entirely new architectural setting that brings science and technology into focus – from the illustration…

Florence-based ARCHEA ASSOCIATI has designed a major new restoration project, turning a former wine warehouse in Trieste into a new Eataly store, which was officially opened to the public today,…

As its name — which reflects its exact address — would suggest, Havre 77 by Francisco Pardo Arquitecto in collaboration with architect Julio Amezcua is an urban re-densification and reactivation…

Sandwiched between the parts of the old local-heritage museum comprised of medieval buildings, there is now amediating modern structure, the shape of whose folded outer shell is derived from the…

The new extension of the Fine Arts Museum of Asturias, a very important Spanish region, is integrated into an urban complex which through successive expansions has made room for one…

Saturday, 4 February, 2017 sees the inauguration of the Prêt-à-porter exhibitionby Giovanni Frangi, at Palazzo Fabroni, the museum of twentieth-century and contemporary art, curated by Giovanni Agosti, promoted and organised by the…

A tribute to the sacredness in a remote place of the earth. A national symbol for the spirituality of Senegal. Introspection, spirituality and divinity. These are the elements around which…

How Wine Became Modern was commissioned by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and exhibited in the museum in 2010. It is the first exhibition to consider modern, global…

Movimenti architettonici Italiani e Giapponesi degli anni ‘60 e ‘70 e il dibattito contemporaneo Fifty years passed from the explosion of two fundamental phenomena of the architectural avant-garde, that made…

The building is located in a 1950s residential area in the Paris suburbs. The large sports hall is positioned at the far end of the site, giving the street a…

The expansion and adaptive re-use of the University of California at Berkeley Press Building (1939), creates a hybrid home for two merged institutions – the Berkeley Art Museum and the…

You can see that this is the story of a passion immediately, from the car park of the Riva Center, a splendid building totally covered in Siberian larch. It can…

An original “footprint”, made of bright colours, unusual textures, camouflage patterns, flowery decorations and much more: Cibic Workshop has designed the interiors of the Glam Hotel in Milan, a four-star…

A very important opening in the year 2016, standing out for the overall quality of its design and the services it offers, and above all its ability to interpret its…

The essence of Mediterranean culture is summed up in the restoration of the San Giorgio Palace Hotel in Ragusa Ibla. The hotel building in all its monumental splendour stands in…

Simplicity and elegance, excellence and contemporary design, style and practicality, all with a single goal: guaranteeing comfort, top quality hospitality and an exclusive reception for all First Class and Business…

The Lincoln Center Redevelopment Project is one of the most important urban, civic transformations in New York City’s recent history. To preserve its cultural status and avoid obsolescence, Lincoln Center…

The ‘Bubble‘ is an inflatable structure that entirely occupies the cylindrical courtyard of the Hirshhorn Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, designed by Gordon Bunshaft and built in 1974. The…

The High Line is a 1.5-mile long public park built on an abandoned elevated railroad stretching from the Meatpacking District to the Hudson Rail Yards in Manhattan. The High Line’s…

presentazione/introduction A part worth the whole text by Marco Casamonti editoriale/editorial The practice of architecture, with and without buildings text by Rowan Moore interviste/interviews From the outside in: epiphanies and indeterminacies interview by…

A complete, holistic environment, an interior consistent with SWISS’s corporate identity and the Zurich airport lounges: PriestmanGoode’s cabin for Swiss International Airlines’ new Boeing 777 was designed in close contact…

Is fashion art? This simple question conceals the complex universe of an articulated relationship that has long been investigated, but without arriving at a clear and unequivocal definition.Fashion – because…

The new central university library in Trento designed by Renzo Piano Building Workshop was inaugurated on November 19 in the district of Le Albere. The library will host more than…

Atelier NAOM*’s Stade du Merlan for the city of Marseille, was born to oppose the concrete massive architecture-bunker typology in favour of a more integrated with the landscape one. Located…

The Roy and Diana Vagelos Education Center unites students across all four schools of Columbia University’s Medical College (Physicians & Surgeons, Nursing, Dental Medicine, and the Mailman School of Public…

Martha Schwartz Partners (MSP), an award-winning landscape architecture firm with more than 35 years of global experience, has just announced completion of a 60 hectare LEED Gold project candidate located in…

On 24 November 2016, the Design Museum opens in its new home on Kensington High Street, west London. Housed in a landmark grade II* listed modernist building from the 1960s…

Archea Associati, Ceramic Art City, Liling, China. The project viewed by the children. It is a well-known fact that a project is not a self-referential and introspective action, but on the contrary, deals with…

“Humans have always been radically reshaped by the designs they produce and the world of design keeps expanding. We live in a time when everything is designed, from our carefully…

We do not know with certainty whether “Your Reflection“ is an experience, an illusion, a landscape, a place, an object, an attempt at surrealist construction, an artistic approach or a…

The train and subway routes in Sants neighborhood, Barcelona, has opened a wound in the urban fabric during the last century. With an average width of 30 m. and an 8-way…

Richard Meier & Partners in collaboration with Developer Sheldon Solow’s East River Realty Development is pleased to celebrate the design and construction of the new 685 First Avenue tower in…

New York City’s first Edible Schoolyard at P.S.216 in Brooklyn is a half-acre Organic Garden and Kitchen Classroom Building including a greenhouse and cooking space for students to prepare and…

The Plaza of the Elbphilharmonie – a public viewing platform situated between the former warehouse and the new glass structure – was officially opened at a ceremony last 4th of…

In the heart of Lyon, on the old Sergent Blandan barracks from 1830, a new public space of 20 hectares was opened in 2014: Blandan park. On this nonstandard site,…

The Dovecote Studio forms part of the internationally renowned music campus at Snape Maltings, founded by Benjamin Britten in derelict industrial buildings on the Suffolk coast. Britten was inspired by…

Some themes, subjects, and areas are much influenced by the era, inevitably feeling the effects of broader issues of the day. Reflecting the expectations of the social and cultural environment…

Sayama Lakeside Cemetery is open to various religions and denominations.  It is located in a nature-rich environment adjacent to the water conservation forest, and the site itself is in front…

This wedding chapel stands in a garden of a resort hotel, “Bella Vista Sakaigahama,” in Onomichi, Hiroshima. The site is midway on a hill enjoying a panoramic view of the…

In a radical way this intervention sheds new light on the Dutch and UNESCO policy on cultural heritage. At the same, it makes people look at their surroundings in a…

Avenier Cornejo architectes completed 38 social housing units at 10/12 rue Bonnet in the city of Clichy-la-Garenne for Efidis (social housing landlord), located at the doorstep of Paris, along the périphérique beltway….

Located at the edge of Yellowstone Park in Montana, Tippet Rise Art Center – with an extension over eleven thousand acres of wilderness – is born as a new destination…

On 3 June 2016, a new building has opened on the Vitra Campus: the Vitra Schaudepot, designed by the Basel-based architects Herzog & de Meuron. The Schaudepot provides the Vitra Design Museum with…

‘Church of Sky’, was built in the vicinity of four art museums named Water, Wind, Stone and Land. The building is located west of the museums site, and was designed…

The architect that adds to an existing building accepts her or his role in a continuum of work where the present project is neither the beginning nor the end of…

After the recapture of the town in 1482 the keep is very run down and practically abandoned cause the loss of space and ceiling of the top floor. The return…

The Kamppi Chapel is located on the south side of the busy Narinkka square in central Helsinki. It offers a place to quiet down and compose oneself in one of…

Pilgrims take part in the function of the Night of Power (Laylat al- Qadr), the 27th day of the Ramadan. The celebration commemorates the revelation of the Koran to the…

Located opposite commercial constructions with hardly any public visibility, the new Puma Energy HQ by Ruiz Pardo-Nebreda acts as a renewing element in the urban landscape. As a recognition of its successful…

Outside is a purpose designed, highly sustainable site specific home for two artists, constructed as a replacement dwelling in a remote location within the Forest of Dean. The site lies in…

The team of Carve and Omgeving (design) and Krinkels (contractor) won the international competition to design an adventurous play-scape and landmark on a ‘terril’ in Beringen, Belgium, in January 2015. The adventure mountain…

DreamDune was a workshop held in Nida, Lithuania in the summer of 2016 – part of the 36th European Architecture Students Assembly (EASA 2016). Nida is located in the Curonian Spit, a 98 km…

The proposal is to construct the building that accommodates MIEC (Contemporary Museum of Sculpture) and redevelop the one where MMAP (Abate Pedrosa Municipale Museum) is currently located. The main objective…

The antique convent of the Penitents, in the city center of Louviers Normandy, is a very exceptional example of ‘cloister on water‘, made of a complex assembly of successive constructions. The…

The new Port House in Antwerp repurposes, renovates and extends a derelict fire station into a new headquarters for the port – bringing together the port’s 500 staff that previously…

Stainless steel, aluminium, corten, iron, brass, copper and more: metals of all kinds come through Crocetta di Montello, and the know-how accumulated over four generations of ironworkers is shared by…

presentazione/introduction Reflections on the earthquake disaster – text by Marco Casamonti editoriale/editorial Reflection on the art of incomplete – text by Françoise Bollack saggi/essays Building on buildings – text by Juan Domingo Santos,…

presentazione/introduction The architecture of sacred space and the search for a needed sacredness text by Marco Casamonti editoriale/editorial Post-conciliar catholic churches text by Paolo Portoghesi letture critiche/critical lectures Re-Imagining sacred signs text by…

The American Hardwood Export Council (AHEC) has collaborated with Alison Brooks Architects, Arup and the London Design Festival to present a cross-laminated tulipwood structure, ‘The Smile’ at the Chelsea College of Art…

Closed since 1962, the salt works in Salins-les-Bain have been an important productive site since the middle ages right in the centre of the French city in the Franche Comté….

Linehouse was commissioned to create a new branded architectural language for 甘其食BAOBAO, the first of many stores to line the streets of China and the US, selling the traditional Chinese…

The wind sweeps the hair of the woman that defies the empty stop at the edge of the portal; dances of clouds play in silence, the sun becomes a line…

An open-air showroom, a fluid space which is carefully designed to appear as natural as possible, in perfect symbiosis with primordial elements such as water and vegetation such as trees…

A breath-taking view: the changed city skyline is a unique backdrop, and the skyscrapers are so close you feel you could reach out and touch them. From the splendid penthouse…

There is no clear separation between the architectural artifice and the astounding beauty of nature. No gap divides built space from its surroundings, so that both become integral parts of…

The ‘Simone Veil’ group of schools forms a structural element in the urban composition of the new eco-neighbourhood. It is tightly embedded in the dense urban fabric, opposite a park…

The Lisbon Architecture Triennale is an open platform for debate, research and promotion of contemporary architecture founded in 2007. Unique in the Iberian Peninsula, it operates in a disciplinary field that benefits of great…

Growing waiting for the Grand Opening of the new Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, scheduled for next October 16th, 2016, after the completion of the futuristic expansion by Dutch…

“I never separate my art from my other activities . There is a political impact in my work and I do not stop being an artist when I deal with…

The Stavros Niarchos Cultural Centre is located in Kallithea, 4 km south of central Athens. An important cultural and educational project, the site will comprise the National Library of Greece…

Sauna culture Sauna bathing is an essential part of Finnish culture and national identity. There are only 5,4 million Finns but 3,3 million saunas. Public saunas used to be common…

MVRDV has moved into the MVRDV House, their new offices in central Rotterdam, marking a new chapter for the expanding architectural practice. The new location, in the iconic post-war monument Het…

Will London still be the capital of creativity, arts and crafts in 10 years’ time? With the significant increase in educational fees and rental prices, both residential and work spaces,…

The Stihl Treetop Walkway by Glenn Howells Architects provides stunning new views over Westonbirt Arboretum, home to one of the finest tree collections in the world. It holds 16,000 unique specimens including a 2,000 year-old…

The entrance courtyard of the Youth Wing for Art Education at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem is a main gathering place for visitors- adults, children and groups- within its modern…

presentazione/introduction Architecture for all text by Marco Casamonti editoriale/editorial The school as a civic laboratory  for the future text by Luca Molinari saggi/essays The nursery school “Dr. Senatore Borletti” by Marco Zanuso in Gubbio text…

The building marks the entrance to a small village nestling in a valley in Alsace. A 14th-century castle dominates the site from the nearby hillside. The day nursery echoes the…

The house was built in Izbica near Warsaw. A beautiful plot on a hill, overlooking a river bend provides quite the sight. Rounded ground floor resembles a rock, on which the upper,…

With its conception and its internal organisation, the reconstruction of the Froelicher high school in Sissonne (France) fits into in a sustainable approach and takes account of the new urbanisation…

The antithesis to a house on a slope: one in a cavern, or better yet: a house in a fortified cavern, which is more of a reinforcement of the steep vineyard,…

The aim of the whole activity of Oikos is to combine colours and materials to interpret the uniqueness of each single project, the specificity of each area and the character…

A long surface of water spanned by a stone walkway opens up in front of the house, designed as a promenade between the built space and the outdoors. The water…

The new viewing tower and landmark on the harbour of Aarhus Ø, The Salling Tower byDorte Mandrup Arkitekter, is shaped as a dramatic urban sculpture with a significant architectural expression….

Sky Garden is a suspended garden designed by SO? architects in Ortaköy Square which is one of the most touristic and busiest squares in Istanbul. Putting a garden on the ground…

In the spring of 2015 the the municipality of Voss, a municipality in western Norway, invited entrepreneurs and architects to participate in tenders for a pedestrian bridge over the river…

Sky Garden is a suspended garden designed by SO? architects in Ortaköy Square which is one of the most touristic and busiest squares in Istanbul. Putting a garden on the ground…

The new Travel Centre by finnish architects JKMM  is located at the heart of the city of Lahti next to the existing, historical railway station. It forms a public transport hub connecting…

The auditorium is Dehullu Architecten is part of a meeting centre that is situated on the site of the general hospital of AZ Groeninge in Kortrijk, Belgium. The hospital itself…

Kengo Kuma and Associates designed Nacrée restaurant in Miyagi in Japan.

The new Estonian National Museum byi DGT in Tartu, Estonia.

Rozana Montiel realizes “Common-Unity”, a public space rehabilitation project in a residential unit in Mexico.

Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) are the authors of the Serpentine Pavilion 2016.

Dorte Mandrup has won the competition to design the extension to the existing headquarters of IDA in the Harbour of Copenhagen..

“A Genealogy of Modern Architecture – Comparative Critical Analysis of Built Form” is the last book by Kenneth Frampton published by Lars Müller Publishers.

The project designed by Kengo Kuma fot the new H.C. Andersen’s House of Fairy Tales.

The Forests of Venice is initiated byKjellander + Sjöberg and Folkhem, who have produced the exhibition together with the support of the Swedish Institute.

The set-up by Migliore + Servetto Architects for Leonardiana in Vigevano: a discrete but strong character backdrop in a prestigious site.

gruppe F won the open competition together with Arkitema, Niras and theActive Institute for designing the plazas aeound the LEGO Visitor Centre in Billund, Denmark.

The Hub is a modular, easily dismantled system that allows empty buildings to be turned into homes in a few days.

Cultural sites and landscapes. The Rediscovering Guides by Il Mulino publisher.

Lo studio francese Hamonic + Masson & Associés ha realizzato il progetto di residenze universitarie ‘Golden Cube’.

LAN Architecture has just completed a new town hall in Saint-Jacques de la Lande, near the capital of Britanny, Rennes. It caps the creation of the Saint-Jacques de la Lande’s new city center. This…

Palazzo Franchetti in Venice will be the special venue for an exhibition dedicated to Zaha Hadid from 27 May until 27 November 2016.

The school unit by Dominique Coulon & associés is part of Montpellier’s dynamic for development, the aim being to connect the city with the sea. The school is set on…

BIG’s project for the Gammel Hellerup Gymnasium features in the issue 145 “Underworld”.

Il progetto di ampliamento e rinnovo della Cantina Santa Margherita, firmato Westway Architects, propone un’estetica funzionale, imponente nelle dimensioni e armonica nei colori.

The Dome Lamp is designed by Benedetta Tagliabue for the Spanish lighting company Bover: a delicate play of enlightenment.

Rebel’s Garden is the first edition of an ideas competition for the design and construction of the garden surrounding the Rebel’s Microbrewery in Rome.

Inside a Creative Mind – Arquitectura Portuguesa is an exhibition, open until June 6th 2016 in Lisbon at the Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian.

GENOA SUMMER SCHOOL 4 in collaboration with Faculdade de Arquitectura da Universidade de Lisboa « PUBLIC SPACES » Lisboa, 21 – 31 July 2016 TASK Ten days of intensive program…

Living-Garden Home attempts at redefining the single-family house to integrate architecture with nature.

The Ragnarock Museum in Roskilde, Denmark: a new spectacular museum for rock, pop and youth culture, designed by COBE and MVRDV.

Felipe Assadi Arquitectos design Atelier in Bahia Azul, in Chile: small retreat perfect for painting.

OMA designed the Pierre Lassonde Pavilion, extension of Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (MNBAQ).

Stainless steel has always been the first-choice material for CEA Design. Continuous experimentation and innovation in the bathroom has led to surprising results in terms of form, but the underlying…

A hybrid object, perfectly at home anywhere, not only in the home but in offices and workplaces too; a concept taking into account the evolution of people’s habits and lifestyles…

Two great Italian companies join forces to produce a new collection of ceramic surfaces offering plenty of tactile sensations and suggestions: Earth is an original line of porcelain materials designed…

The volumes of the building are characterised by severe geometry. A few square, linear elements are assembled to form a single compositional whole, in which everything is reduced to its…

Artists Loris Cecchini and Giovanni Ozzola has been invited to give take part of this project: the first one intervenes in Santa Croce, “capital” of the tanning district, known around…

“time is TIME” is an installation for Milan Design Week 2016, by CITIZEN and Tsuyoshi Tane from DGT Architects, who undertook creative direction of the highly acclaimed 2014 exhibit, “LIGHT…

Inaugurated on 25 April 2016, the new Salerno Maritime Terminal by Zaha Hadid Architects is integral to the 1993 city’s urban plan for Salerno which targeted the development of essential…

This home is a small unit part of an early seventies building which has been designed inside a casing that could not be modified. The main effort was to create…

Peter Zimmermann is internationally renowned as an outstanding exponent of conceptual painting. And now, for the very first time, he will be presenting an extensive solo show in his hometown,…

The thirteenth edition of Ortinparco, the festival dedicated to everything that makes garden and issues related to it, will be held in Levico Terme, in Valsugana – Trentino, April 22 to…

Alexander Girard (1907 – 1993) was one of the most prolific interior and textile designers of the 20th century. His playful designs attest to a passion for colours, ornamentation and…

“TAKING CARE, Progettare per il bene comune / Designing for the common good” is the theme of the Italian Pavilion at the 15th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di…

Palazzo Mediceo, a Serravezza (LU), ospita una rassegna antologica dedicata al famoso designer italiano Paolo Ulian.

Archea Associati, Square and public facilities in Merate, Lecco – photo by Pietro Savorelli There is a passage, in Calvino‘s Cosmicomiche, which, describing our planet from an unusual point of…

The site is o the outskirts of Leiria, in a high position overlooking the city. The functions are banal: a house divided in private area with bedrooms, and social area…

          editoriale/editorial Essential Tools of Living text by Paolo Giardiello design/design Living Tools: Kitchen i29 interior architects/Invisible Kitchen – text by i29 interior architects – photo…

You could build a history of living, changes in lifestyles and forms of family relationships through an account of the evolution of places in the home that are indispensable for…

TOTO‘s new Gallery TOTO in the new Sky Lounge ‘WA‘ of Narita International Airport Terminal 2 doubles as a showroom for the iconic brand‘s state-of-the art designs while providing an…

          presentazione/introduction A Stone Sky text by Maria Argenti editoriale/editorial Message from the Bowels of the Earth – text by Manfred Sack – photo by Peter…

A Japanese Constellation: Toyo Ito, SANAA, and Beyond focuses on the work of architects and designers orbiting Pritzker Prize winners Toyo Ito and SANAA, on view from March 13 to…

The Forte Belvedere in Florence is getting set to host this year’s edition of its annual fixture with great art.  Following the two international exhibitions showcasing the art of Giuseppe…

Caseyfierro Architects  transformed a redundant light industrial unit creating one of the largest studio and private use spaces in London for the artist Anish Kapoor. The buildings are one of…

Menichetti+Caldarelli Architetti  renovated the interior space of an existing house in Gubbio historical center. The project develops on three levels, connected with a central staircase which distributes all the different…

The cathedral, an inventor’s workshop for audiovisual design, forms a building that operates in the field of tension between two different landscapes, both as form and as idea. The building…

Ole Scheeren‘s design generates an extensive network of private and shared social spaces in a radical reinterpretation of contemporary life in a community. Instead of following the default typology of…

In this Alsatian village, urban policies are sparse but straightforward: do as your neighbor; and all neighbors agree. The house designed by GENS  only shows a tile covered gable roof,…

Day 47, Museum of Modern Literature by Chipperfield After knowing about The Great Discontent’s open call for participants on their 100 Day Project, the Spanish firm Estudio Extramuros decided to…

The iconic tower designed by Jean Nouvel at the center of Nicosia, next to Eleftheria Square transforms the city silhouette of Nicosia. The program includes 10- story residential apartments, a…

Covering 500 years of art history and including over 50 great works by Sandro Botticelli (1445-1510), making it the largest exhibition of Botticelli paintings and drawings ever held in the…

Henri Matisse Jazz, tavola VIII: Icaro 1947 Serie di venti tavole colorate realizzate con la tecnica dello stampino, 42,5×65,5 cm Collection Centre Pompidou, Paris Musée national d’art moderne – Centre…

Chongqing Taoyuanju Community Center by Vector Architects starting point is attempting to merge new building outline with the existing wavy topography. Instead of building an “object” in the field, the…

MAAT, is the new Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology for Lisbon that will open on the 4-5 of October 2016. The new museum will be located on the banks…

One year after the launch of the international competition for the realization of the Bologna Shoah Memorial, Rome-based office SET Architects, winner according to the jury presided over by Peter…

Bjarke Ingels Group unveils the conceptual design for a new skyscraper called The Spiral, located at the intersection of the High Line and the newly developed Hudson Boulevard Park on…

Angelo Brescianini, N. 85 spari pistola cal 5,56, lastra d’acciaio inox, 80×80 cm AICA | Andrea Ingenito Contemporary Art Milano, March 17 – April 8, 2016 | opening Wednesday March…

Building a cultural space in Beaumont-Hague, in Cotentin, means to integrate an architectural project that takes benefits from the landscape qualities of this piece of peninsula. These landscape elements are…

The Learning Hub at Nanyang Technological University (NTU Singapore), designed by Heatherwick Studio and executed by lead architect CPG Consultants, is a new educational landmark for Singapore. As part of…

The proposal ’The Lost Shield’ by team PLH Arkitekter, has won first prize in the competition for a new experience and knowledge centre at the site of the Danish Viking monument…

Frederiksvej Kindergarten was started in 2011 as a competition won by COBE in collaboration with Preben Skaarup landscape architects, Søren Jensen engineers and Learning Spaces consultants. The kindergarten is officially…

Night view of Singapore – photo by Depositphotos Singapore is difficult to define, difficult and complex for its perhaps unique status, a place that simultaneously represents, as in Luigi Pirandello’s…

          presentazione/introduction Singapore: Fifty Years of Solitude text by Marco Casamonti editoriale/editorial Singapore: City Extraordinaire in the Making… Still text by Lai Choo Malone-Lee With Singapore,…

The ArtScience Museum at Marina Bay Sands is conceptualized and designed by architect Moshe Safdie as the first museum dedicated to the dynamic interplay between art and science. Designed as…

Galleria Continua is pleased to present three first solo shows in Italy of three most important international contemporary artists: Juan Araujo “Walled – in Shut”, Reynier Leyva Novo “El Peso…

This reinventer.paris project offers a unique opportunity to transform the metropolis at a highly strategic spot: the Boulevard Périphérique (ring road).  Jacques Ferrier Architecture and Chartier Dalix Architectes is proposing to…

The optical shop C_29 / ’Optimist’, is an interwar listed building of a total surface 90m2 and is located in the centre of Chalkida. The space is airy and expands…

The project describes a space for storing and selling paintings in a tower located at the centre of Hong Kong. Given the program of an infrequently used space, Penda introduce…

An idea: recreating a Milanese residence with Oriental contaminations, drawing on the details of a luxury hotel chain that operates 45 hotels in 24 different countries; a five-star luxury hotel…

Concrete expression of an ideal, a virtuous project completed, a real bridge linking “in here” with “out there” for the first time: InGalera is Italy’s first restaurant open to the…

A new project, but that looks at the past and at the tradition of our country to meet the need, increasingly current in contemporary life, to slow down the frenetic…

A product featuring a plain design and formed by a painted metal cover, the upper part of which is tilted forwards and accommodates a closed axial fan with a harmonious…

Tasting the Landscape, the title chosen for the 53rd International IFLA (International Federation of Landscape Architects) Congress, calls for the interpretation of the landscape project as an expression of a…

The house is located on a sloping plot with a landscape of distant horizon none other than Madrid’s western mountain range: a vertical building where logically the more public parts…

FORUM Medicum is the winning proposal for the Medical faculty of Lund University extention by the danish firm Henning Larsen Architects. With the open and transparent base as a link…

For 16 days in June 2016, Italy’s Lake Iseo will be reimagined. 70,000 square meters of shimmering yellow fabric, carried by a modular floating dock system of 200,000 high-density polyethylene…

Sfere is Cordivari’s new radiator resulting from the creativity of Simone Micheli that, thanks to pure and absolute shaping, exceeds the stereotypes of traditional radiators to become part of the…

Developed in the context of the Post-tsunami Sustainable Reconstruction Plan (PRES) of Constitución, the project is located on a side of the town square, inaugurating the new civic character of…

The classic scriptures of antiquity are almost all lost. We know about the biblical paradise or Herodotus’ historiography mainly from transcripts that were created in the medieval scriptoria of monasteries….

Orang+Utan vegetarian bar is a project by two young Ukranian architects, Artem Vakhrin Zuievaere and Katya, from AKZ Architectura studio. The project was conceived and designed in close collaboration between…

Located in the heart of Milan, within the Monumentale area, the building shows an innovative approach in addressing metro­politan residential issues. The project aims at interacting with a broader spatial…

The project includes a new urban plan and addition of two mix-use housing blocks for a part of the modernistic neighbourhood called Kortephohja in Jyväskylä, a medium-sized town centrally located…

Alejandro Aravena was pleased that Area’s editorial office contacted him prior to his appointment as Director of the next Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale, because evidently, after this assignment…

Building in a remote place should generate an architecture able to age as if it were a natural element. So, we thought of a kind of hollowed stone, bent to…

The exhibition presents a review of the original project (drawings, sketches and old photographs), belonging to Fondo Andreani (Iuav University of Venice Archive) and other public and privates collections, plus…

Workshop description Contemporary education is changing rapidly and is evolving in response to the changing demands of society and technology development. The classical model where a professor stands at a…

The project at 73 boulevard de la Villette in the 10th arrondissement of Paris comprises 14 units of social housing for the SIEMP and a Mother and Child Welfare Center…

Angelini Innovation Center turned the conventional office plan inside out for 3 reasons: first, Santiago’s weather requires to avoid direct sun radiation on glass surfaces otherwise the energy consumption in…

For Rotterdam’s Timmerhuis, a new building for the city hall that accommodates municipal services, offices, and residential units, OMA conceived a modular building with repeated units gradually set back from…

        presentazione/introduction Elemental: Architecture as Strategy text by Marco Casamonti letture critiche/critical lectures The Communicator text by Justin McGuirk intervista/interview The Power of Synthesis interview by Laura…

“Paesaggi d’aria. Luigi Ghirri e Yona Friedman/Jean-Baptiste Decavèle” is a reflection over the meeting between photography and architecture most original innovators: the photographer Luigi Ghirri and the duo Friedman /…

Driven by technology and social media, people in different ages in our society are changing the ways they spend time. Daily activities and sports can be easily tracked and shared…

Ground breaking ceremony for MuRéNA, the Musée de la Romanité Narbonne. The museum – the outcome of an international design competition won by Foster + Partners in 2012 – will…

Xixi, a national wetland park located on the outskirts of Hangzhou, is a built landscape and an area of nature, which has been shaped by man for over a thousand…

The library is located along the seashore of China Bohai Bay. The design key point is focused on exploring the co-existing relationship of the space boundary, the movement of human…

In 2015, the city of Bruges decided to start again the organization of a Triennale for contemporary art and architecture, to expand its tradition of Triennals for contemporary Belgian art…

illuminiamo i monumenti dentro e fuori is an event by the Metropolitan City of Naples which enlighten its historical sites: Palazzo Matteotti, Reggia di Portici, Complesso di Santa Maria la…

Plastic Village – “Il limite imperfetto tra architettura e design” is an initiative promoted by Fondazione Donnaregina for contemporary arts in collaboration with Fondazione Plart. The project is coordinated and curated…

photo by Christophe Manquillet The Centre national des arts du cirque (Cnac), based in Châlons-en-Champagne since 1985, is concentrated on the historic 19th century circus site. The French government and local…

Switzerland will have the honour to house a vertical forest as well as Milan. The project designed by Studio Boeri Architetti is the result of the competition for the construction…

Archea Associati, Tango Disco, Beijing. Photo by Pietro Savorelli. During the Renaissance, a building‘s facade acquired autonomy and importance that went beyond the building‘s sense of necessity; whereas in the…

One Museum, two museums, one space. Two solid volumes confine one space. One empty space that dilates and compresses. One space always in contact with the exterior. One space of…

A project sponsored by Comune di Firenze, Grandi Stazioni S.p.A, concieved and coordinated by Fondazione Michelucci On October 30, 1935 the new Fabbricato viaggiatori of Firenze Santa Maria Novella Station…

“Although the works in Drawing Ambience may be read as part of a historical chapter, their time is not finished,” – The Guardian The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture…

photo by André Cepeda Located in Coimbra’s industrial area, the building consists of two volumes: a smaller two-storey volume overlooking the main road, presenting a commercial area on the ground…

The new MVRDV project is located inside IJburg, a new expansion area to the east of Amsterdam. Developed on six artificial islands and populated by 16,000 inhabitants, this district supposed…

The folk art museum is located within the campus of the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou, on a steep ground, previously used as a tea field. The museum is…

Located at a major high-end commercial district at the intersection of Changde Road and Nanjing West Road in Shanghai, a new facade is created for the fashion house Ports 1961’s…

“A painting is not a picture of an experience,” Rothko stated in a 1959 article in Life Magazine. “It is an experience.” Mark Rothko: A Retrospective opened on the 20th…

Young-Old investigates the contemporary architectural and urban transformations recently occurred as a result of one of the most significant phenomena of our time: population aging. Deane Simpson, architect and expert…

photo by: Iwan Baan Dubbed “the veil and the vault,” the museum’s design merges the two key programs of the building: public exhibition space and the archive/storage that will support…

          presentazione/introduction The Facade: the role and autonomy of the face – text by Marco Casamonti – photo by Pietro Savorelli antologia/anthology Facade Anthology – edited…

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…

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,…

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….

“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…

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…

“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…

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 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…

Marco Nussbaum e Matthias Zimmermann, co- founders of the Prizeotel brand, chose Karim Rashid for the design of all Prizeotels in Germany.

OFIS architects and AKT II in collaboration with students at Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Freeaproved and PD Ljubljana Matica The project developed from an architectural design studio at…

The private gallery and house is sited in the hills of the Kangbuk section of Seoul, Korea. The project was designed as an experiment parallel to a research studio on…

O-office architect was commissioned to the renovation work of a post-industrial ruin in Shenzhen.

Area proposes to its readers the itinerary of Seoul, a city evolving at a breathtaking pace.

A travel into Tokyo’s overwhelming modern architecture.

Water and its conscientious use are the focus of an innovative designer tap system created out of the encounter of the creative vision of Brazilian studio MK27, founded by architect…

Endless deep space is formed when you stand between two mirrors facing each other. This phenomenon is called ‘mise en abyme’, where frames repeat in a frame, producing an infinite…

HDW14 The Abattoir Opening – photo by Aino Huovio Founded in 2005, Helsinki Design Week is the largest design festival in the Nordic countries. Held annually in September, the multidisciplinary…

Yardhouse is an affordable workspace building in Sugarhouse Yard in Stratford and a pilot for the provision of creative workspace. The building provides a sociable and collaborative work environment. It…

Ho Fine Arts Library College of Architecture, Art, and Planning Cornell University “The design for the Ho Fine Arts Library is an immediate and quite physical invitation to discover an…

The principal idea in the site of the high school Honoré de Balzac de Castelnau-le-Lez  was to reconquer space by a better distribution of constructions in order to create a…

“To start with, we were invited by C-mine to create something for the 2015 summer exhibition. This led us to propose an installation shaped as a giant labyrinth. Most of…

A house that wants to identify each of the particularities of the magnificent landscape between the water of the Mediterranean sea and the hard rock of the Costa Brava.

Recreation, fun and vacation require the research of a special habitat where one’s existence can reach that level of relaxation, capable of rejuvenating body and spirit.

The two-storey residence is adjusted to the old and densely built area of Fira in such a way so as to face the view of the volcano in front of…

Holiday houses, hotels, spa. The summer issue of Area is devoted to architecture aimed at leisure, well-being and holidays.

Tallinn Architecture Biennale 2015 explores the self-driven city TAB is an international architecture festival which looks at the future of the architectural profession, introducing local culture and current issues, events…

Wang Family Ancestral Hall 2015
Over 1,300 pieces of various wooden building elements from late Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) with original carvings and painted replacements 
2100 x 1680 x 942 cm Courtesy: the artist…

Giuseppe Tortato, young Milan-based architect, presents in this book his own project, the redevelopment of the former heavy industry La Forgiatura. The book reveals, through the architect’s viewpoint, the entire design…

Firenze e le avanguardie Radicali. Progetti, azioni, super-visioni, oggetti extra  is an exhibition and a seminar focused  on the Radical experiences developed in Florence that started in the mid-sixties and…

An urban vessel The École Nationale Supérieure Maritime of Le Havre is a building that the visitor who strolls along the harbor, might percieve as an ocean-faring vessels or a…

National Pavilions at universal exhibitions are a classic showcase for the transmission of key national values which are also satisfy the commercial strategies of every country. They also accommodates the…

Photo by Aurelio Amendola The exhibition, promoted by  Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Pistoia e Pescia and curated by Bruno Corà has been inaugurated on 9th May and is open…

photo by Aarhus I Billeder “We have created a sculpture that is all about experiencing the surroundings and becoming aware of the relationship between the city and the magnificent landscape…

Kengo Kuma designs a soy sauce shop using shoyu wooden barrels floating to the top.

10th international Festival of Design 3-5 Luglio 2015 – esposizioni fino al 27 settembre

The Spanish firm 1004arquitectos recently finalised the adult education centre and children’s playground building in Torrelavega. Formed in 2008 by Coral Álvarez de Miguel, Jaime Lamúa Chueca, Pedro López Quintas and…

Sou Fujimoto wins the competition for the extension of the campus of École Polytechnique a Palaiseau.

A unique holiday resort, conceived by the award-winning chef Antonello Colonna and designed by Aniello /Tasca.

The new pedestrian bridge which links the Metro station and the Bois de Sauvabelin in Lausanne, is a project by the Swiss firm 2b architectes and it represents the new gateway…

XXVI edizione, 2015 Maredolce-La Favara, Palermo

An elegant, highly flexible product permitting quick, easy alteration of lighting distribution and offering an opportunity to add new light points at any time, anywhere along the way: a magnetic…

The winners of the Guggenheim Helsinki Design Competition are a husband and wife team based in Paris since 2011. Nicolas Moreau and Hiroko Kusunoki practice under the name Moreau Kusunoki Architectes. Hiroko,…

photo: Hiroyuki Oki Located in North of Vietnam, Son La province is an ethnic cultural area with abundant nature of untouched forests and beautiful mountain landscapes. Even with its strong cultural…

Going through important italian and international designers’ works, as Sottsass, Castiglioni, Michelucci, Mangiarotti, Aulenti, the exhibition remarks the importance of the tuscan productivity, expecially in the field of art and…

The experience of going back to intimate contact with nature, a revolutionary approach to the world of light, a long and difficult process of scientific discovery that has for the…

Bologna Design Week is an international event full of happenings, exhibitions, workshops, panel discussions, thematic routes through showrooms, shops, galleries and design studios.

With Antonio Carminati, Cesare Cattaneo, Pietro Lingeri, Ernesto Saliva, Luigi Vietti and the collaboration of Marcello Nizzoli, Mario Radice and Mario Sironi. Curated by Flavio Mangione and Luca Ribichini.

Workshops, events, conferences, exhibitions and a Focus Country about Ireland, build up the London Festival of Architecture, whose central theme is “work in progress”, as an open air building site…

photo: Roland Halbe The three buildings in La Ronda Sant Antoni are a magnificent testimony to the industrial Barcelona of the nineteenth century. They house the story of Moritz beer and of the people who…

Anish Kapoor “Descension” invites the spectator to reflect upon the concept of the infinite and the mysteries of time buried within their form and substance, confirming Kapoor’s interest in non-objects…

200 Greenwich Street / 2 WTC is the capstone in the redevelopment of the World Trade Center and the final component of the revitalization of Lower Manhattan.

Natural elements like water and stone, neutral colours and a refined compositional balance, cosy atmospheres and a strong sensation of “feeling at home”: Fantini Milano open in Milan during the…

High line art presents Olafur Eliasson’s “The collectivity project” an interactive installation of an imaginary cityscape built with over two tons of white legos.

The Wellcome Collection in London transformation has been completed by Wilkinson Eyre Architects, designed to accommodate growing visitor numbers and enrich their visiting experience. Working within the confines of the existing…

Light, delicate hues with evocative names recalling nature and matter, references and images that come to us from far away, from remote memories, from traditions native to the human heritage:…

Research into materials, evolving technologies, new ideas and styles for the forms and lines in every sunshade element or system: in a word, integrated design permitting development of practical and attractive…

Scrigno continues its study of transparency and new functions: Essential Trial is a counter-frame born out of the evolution of Essential and Essential Dual. An innovative product of elegant design, capable of…

The view of Hungarian architecture, developed favoring large historical phases of supranational importance, is presented as a continuous transition from the rule exception. At first glance, walking across beautiful Budapest, it…

On the occasion of the 56th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale, AS.Architecture-Studioinvites Pascale Cassagnau – in charge of the audio visual, video and new media collections at the…

Architecture and food define a repetitive link: we are dealing with “arts”, which completely overlap.

Area investigates into the world of food in terms of architecture and design.

Sou Fujimoto won the competition to design the House of Hungarian Music in Budapest.

Renzo Piano is realizing an important cultural and educational project, the site will comprise the National Library of Greece and the Greek National Opera in a landscaped park.

It is ideal as a wall covering not only for residential bathrooms and kitchens but also for the toilets of restaurants, offices and hotels. The new collection Nordic Wood, by…

Simple architecture, absolute white surfaces and the sculptural presence of a staircase dominating the living area: the purity of this space created by renovating an attic in Bergamo is underlined…

Contamination among simple geometric shapes, new proportions created by the intersection of appropriately scaled squares, circles and rectangles, three-dimensional surfaces created by alternating smooth parts with sections in relief: Graffio…

Quay of Arts: a compliment to this territory, built on the astounding confrontation between nature and construction.

Customisation, geometric rigour, technology and sustainability: Velaria is a sliding door with a thin aluminium frame that makes the most of the exclusive properties of Rimadesio glass.
The technological solutions adopted…

Primordial tracks, marks made by plants and animals on rock formations: this is the inspiration and the image evoked by Fossil, a collection designed by Polish designer Kasia Zareba for…

A unique concept, a new landmark in top-end hospitality in the heart of the city of Milan: 14 suites, each designed by a different designer, in the TownHouse Duomo by…

An unusual, iconic shape created by rotating (or rather, “twisting” to one side) a conventional wall-mounted tub towards the centre of the room; a new concept of the experience of…

Amsterdam is the selected city for the itinerary of contemporary architecture in Area 139.

The attractive book of imagined places of no return.

The issue will deal with the world of food observed from the viewpoint of architecture and design.

Feltrinelli per Porta Volta: a new home for Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Foundation.

Marco Casamonti illustrates thereasons for a issue of Area that deals with the subject of the construction site and under construction projects.

This issue, in proposing projects currently under construction, intends to disclose what we will discuss in a few months and emphasizes the characteristics of building.

National Taichung Theater is a building complex consisting of three parts. Toyo Ito shows us one of his last under-construction projects.

A presentation of the most important ongoing initiatives in London.

Residential multifunctional complex situated in Moscow, nearby the open spaces of Poklonnaya mountain and the Setun river valley.

Founded in 2008 by Dasha Zhukova, the institution of the Garage Museum is currently based in a temporary pavilion in Gorky Park created for Garage by Shigeru Ban.

In the German city Flensburg, close to the Danish border, ADEPT is now publicly announced the 1st prize winner of a high-profile competition for a new city gate along Bahnhofstrasse…

The five finalists for the Mies van der Rohe Award 2015 were announced. The European competition of contemporary architecture biennial organized by the Fundació Mies van der Rohe achieved the…

  Talk about… MOCKBA 2.0 The present of the near future Moscow towards a new metamorphosis Presentation of area 138 Tecniche Nuove Partecipants Laura Andreini Giuseppe Alizzi / Systematica Alessandro…

The next issue of area will be dedicated to the most interesting projects being built at the moment.

Moscow, capital of Russia, is experiencing a time of great expansion and urban renewal. The route identifies the best architecture in recent years.

The introduction of Marco Casamonti to area 138 illustrates the research done to draft a new issue on the architecture in Moscow following that of 2008, area 96.

Proekt Meganom office for the Mercury Theatre relises a deep facade of wooden blades, designed in a wave-shape.

ARC is an architectural and spatial research; it is built in the Region of Moscow on the border between forest and field.

This issue is about Moscow, the symbol of urban emancipation of the East area metropolis and their claim on the world stage.

Area 138 will deal with Moscow: an important contemporary city – protagonist of urban renewal and architectural renovation.

Marco Casamonti introduces area 137 issue: chinese identity. A reflection on contemporary chinese architecture.

Architecture firms standardarchitecture and Zhaoyang architects have completed a visitors centre next to a river in Tibet.

A building which is a supplementary facility of living and also to meet the increasing needs of the visitors’ accommodation in Xiangshan campus.

Scenic Architecture Office designed a building in dialogue with the pre-existing trees.The building represents a connection between men and nature.

Demetrio Paparoni writes about the generation of Chinese artists who appeared on the artistic scene in China in the second half of the Eighties have found themselves face to face…

Wednesday January 21st Area will present the last issue dedicated to chinese architecture identity.

Bilbao, the main industrial city of the Basque Country, has become a symbol of urban renaissance because of its complex and courageous development, which saw the creation of outstanding architecture.

The identity of Chinese architecture: a more conscious and reasoned architecture which experiments without aspiring to the iconic exaggeration and which reflects on the value of local culture.

Area 137 Design Focus will deal with sustainability.

To extend the lifetime of a product, by reusing at least some of its parts, means to put off its decay and transformation into garbage to be disposed of, at…

The new CityLife district is an important reference for contemporary architecture of global significance and a significant architecture for Milan. The designers were asked to identify a solution consistent and…

The competition involves the reconstruction of a building destroyed by a fire on Wasserwerkstrasse 127A in Zurich. The new building will replace the former textile mill built in 1812 and…

Juhani Pallasmaa: architect and theoretician, among the most coherently modern ones without any modernistic fundamentalisms and one of the most fascinating explorers of the complexity of architecture.

What remains today about the lesson of Mies van der Rohe? Forecasting, logical thinking, search for identity between classicism and design, but also a peaceful balance between form and structure.

Caroline Klein curates a book dedicated to the contribution of Ai Weiwei to the architectural invention.

The authors coordinated by Maria Grazia Eccheli and Mina Tamborrino, open up the curtain on many forgotten events regarding the feminine world of architecture.

Carlo Ratti and his vision of as a place of interaction between individuals and information fluxes.

Three interesting exhibitions are held this autumn in Genoa, in Venice and in Milan, to examine particular aspects of Italian design.

In collaboration with the Alvar Aalto Museum, the Vitra Design Museum dedicates an important critical and retrospective exhibition to the Finnish architect.

Few months to go to Expo 2015, Milan will “put on the table” a great exhibition.

essay Alfonso Morone Paolo Giardiello interview Roberto Lazzeroni, Andrea Lupi zoom Duravit per uno spazio di grandi contrasti! object Tavola, Tavoletta, Andrea Crosetta/Antrax Texture Collection, Meneghello Paolelli Associati/Fima Carlo Frattini…

In the early Fifties Paolo Soleri, Agli inizi degli anni Cinquanta Paolo Soleri, After transforming a small bus into his first travelling home-studio, he began a journey across the peninsula,…

The bathroom is a place in an architectural interior strongly conditioned by its use, which requires a high performance and specific devices. It is a matter of a function which…

ILBagno is the latest collection by antoniolupi. An interview to Roberto Lazzeroni, the collection’sdesigner and Andrea Lupi.

A journey into the world of Casalgrande Padana: A city within a city, with well-defined functions, a clear and hierarchically consolidated system and perfect, flexible logistics.

Una ricognizione sulle figure di spicco del panorama architettonico e artistico della Cina che col loro lavoro cercano di dare una testimonianza dell’identità cinese.

Marco Casamonti introduces area 136: “Elements”.

A reflection on the 14th International Architecture Exhibition in Venice.

A critical reading of the hypothesis proposed by Rem Koolhaas in the exhibition “Elements of Architecture”, analyzed through the fundamentals of architecture.

Alvaro Siza and Carlos Castanheira together for the realistion of Shihlen Office Building a Huai’an City.

Alberto Campo Baeza designs an infinite horizontal plane on the seaside of Cadiz.

House for Trees is a prototypical house with th aim of having green space into the city, accommodating high-density dwelling with big tropical trees

“Grafts” consists of a selection of case studies that makes it possible to apply to a greater geographical area Cino Zucchi’s suggested reflections for the Italian Pavilion at the 14th…

A museum designed by David Chipperfield Architects to showcase the largest private art collection in Latin America.

Introduction to “Grafts”

The design of the Center for Disability in Seregno, realized by Archea Associati, is inspired by a gestural approach to architectural materials, which makes it possible to meet the functional…

Schijndel‘s market square suffered damages during the Second World War and today gains new life through MVRDV project.

The most significant characteristic of this construction by studio Phenomenon is the stainless steel fence which surrounds the building.

A bare horizontal volume detached from the ground, suspended in an almost archaic time.

A new finish tower for rowing regattas in Rotsee Lake, where the opening of the rowing center is scheduled for july 2016.

Chiarano Primary School is a porous building. It allows the territory and the light to flow inside the spaces.

A semi-detached house located in a woodland, not far from the city of Lucerne and on the shores of Lake Lucerne.

A house with an amazing terrace on top, at same level of the street. A bridge connects the street to the main entrance of the house.

This project by Ines Lobo involves the building of a block of 18 premises for habitation purposes next to the Óbidos Lake in the future site of the Golf and…

The building is laid out as an approximately 3,000 sqm ’spiral of knowledge’ that naturally integrates into the surrounding landscape at the University Campus in Falun.

The basic idea behind the concept of this museum is integration into the terrain, which is achieved with the museum design which is mostly buried in the ground and only…

A high panoramic lift is located on the edge of Malta’s historic fortified capital city of Valletta.

The aim of the competition is to provide suggestions for the design of a new building within Kv Verkmästaren 6 and 7 and to integrate the old bath house in…

Arvo Pärt, the famous Estonian composer internationally appreciated and respected, founded in 2010 the Arvo Pärt Centre with the goal of preserving and studying his creative legacy. The new building will…

Nieto Sobejano design the extension of Kastner & Öhler stores in Graz: a graft that combines disparate buildings, retaining some differences related to different uses.

Archea Associati office designs a new Salaroli Showroom through a transformation of several anonymous existing buildings into a harmony capable of redesigning the new access to Cesena’s old town.

In Paris, in a dense urban fabric of courtyards and small gardens, a six apartments building rises.

TAO (Trace Arcitecture Office) designs a structure for offices zigzagging in the woods of Weihai.

Area aims to highlight the importance of the client in the success of several major projects.

Lisbon has always presented an interesting contribution to contemporary architecture, in continuous renewal. The itinerary is an update to the one published on area 71.

The hundredth anniversary of the birth of Lina Bo Bardi, architect and designer, is celebrated this year in Italy, Brazil and in other countries. Born in Rome on 5 December…

London, the capital of the United Kingdom and England, is a multi-ethnic metropolis that has enormous influence in the world of architecture.

The notion of landscape is changing, and becoming richer; from place of relation and movement (Mouvance), to emblematic connotation of new dynamics that are nourished by change (Mutation), to place…

This year’s Summer appointment with culture, organised in the civilised city of Frankfurt, attaches great significance to the spirit of innovation promoted ever since 1984. To remember past avant-garde movements…

Area 133+ explores the world of wellness design and architecture

Carlo Vannicola introduces the space of physical and mental well-being.

The Spa architecture follows the landscape morphology with a series of spaces, which are diversified by the use of textures and light.

Wooden sauna with a roofed terrace, in relationship with the stunning landscape of Ranco Lake, Chile

Underground wellness space excavated and shaped in the basement of a nineteenth-century mansion.

The Spa centre is simultaneously, a wide public space for the swiss village of Rigi Kaltbad, thanks to the overhead square and the connection with the railway system.

Transfromation of an old dormitory of Bangkok in a multifunctional public building.

The issue will be devoted to Chile, a country engaged for years in a sort of urban metamorphosis in response to the fragmented city model determined by the policies of…

Marco Casamonti introduces area 134: Clients

Marco Casamonti introduces area 132 “exhibition”

Reflection on the museum fruition, in technological contamination era and spectacularization of the work of art.

A moving room become the exhibition space extension of each gallery floor, rethinking the visitors interaction with art, in a typical vertical and narrow lot of the Bowery.

Nestled in a peculiar topography, the building deals with height differences functioning as a museum as well as a belvedere, characterized by local cromatisms and materialities.

Exhibition space and work of art are balanced in this intimate gallery facing Arno riverbanks, establishing a dialogue with the city through the extension of art in the outdoor piazza…

Subterranean museum built inside an old dock, leading visitors through the history of the Danish maritime and experience the scale of ship building according to a series of bridges.

The Allianz Headquarters is a hybrid-office and the pinnacle of a master planned mixed-use district on the edge of Zürich’s city center.

‘Arena do Morro’, designed by herzog & de meuron, is a gymnasium able to host a variety of public events for the community of Mãe Luiza in Brazil.

Reflection about the contemporary exhibition space architecture and the museography role in the digital era.

The Storm King Art Center park land founded by H. Peter Stern e Ralph E. Ogden in 1960. To follow an interview to David R. Collens.

Monografia sul lavoro dello Studio Fuksas con progetti realizzati ed in corso d’opera

Marco Casamonti presents Area 131, retracing Studio Fuksas architectural vision.

Joseph Giovannini highlights the importance of hybridization in Fuksas work, as in Renaissance, an architecture which does not exclude painting, sculpture and arts contamination.

The surface of the bubbles is composed of a totally transparent double skin allowing us to focus for 360° on the splendid mountain landscape of Montegrappa. Two signs: one of…

Situated in a distinctly non-built-up area outside the city of Strasbourg, between the suburbs and the city centre. A place for music which the most sophisticated connoisseurs describe as uncultured….

Una grande “guscio” di vetro e acciaio conferisce all’edificio un’identità fluida e spazi luminosi, grazie alla presenza di vuoti e superfici curve che si insinuano come vortici, al suo interno.

After Hong Kong Chater House and Tokyo Ginza Tower, Fifth Avenue completes the trilogy of the Armani Stores designed by Doriana and Massimiliano Fuksas for the famous designer. Situated in…

Following the outline of the masterplan in 1998 for the center of Eindhoven in the Netherlands, Studio Fuksas developed the four projects associated with it: – The 18.Septemberplein, a square…

The “18 septemberplein” is one of the major squares in the city of Eindhoven. The square is the connection between the central station area and the main shopping district of…

Residential complex, built in between two voids of a park and a dock, characterized by not aligned volumes and vibrant shades reflecting on water.

Built on 3.95 acres in the ZAC Port Marianne area to the East of Montpellier, the hotel-school Lycée Georges Frêche transforms the landscape and provides it with a distinct urban…

Eleven big “petals” cover the Public Service Hall, where facades are completely released by the roof structure, in order to allow movements between the two.

The project of the New National Archives of France draws its inspiration from the surrounding reality, from the city seen as coexistence of chaos and order. The concept is born…

A new architecture redefines the urban landscape of Rome historic centre according to contemporary taste. It’s the steel and glass “Lantern“ of the “Ex Unione Militare“ building, situated between via…

Shenzhen airport is one of the most recent projects by Fuksas, a 1,5 km long tunnel, reminding us, with its organic shapes, a bird ready to fly.

The structure will be built in a strategic area of the historic quarter EUR on a 55,000-square-meter built surface. The design concept is briefly explained by three images: the “Theca”,…

The construction of the Regione Piemonte Tower, close to the Lingotto area, is on a building area of 95,000 sqm and it is part of the master plan signed by…

The project site is located inside the green area called Rhike Park, in Tbilisi, Georgia. The building consists of two different soft shaped elements that are connected as a unique…

After Studio Fuksas won the Shenzhen Bao’an International Airport Terminal 3 in March 2008, on October 18th 2010 Massimiliano and Doriana Fuksas won the “International Schematic Design Competition of Shenzhen…

A tour of contemporary architecture of the Lithuanian capital.

A look into contemporary architecture in Chile: Valparaíso and Concepción.

This number of Area focuses on architectures which represents and generates socialisation in the contemporary city.

Marco Casamonti presents Area 130 focused on spaces of aggregation and socialization

Main streets are the most obvious urban infrastructures that have been there from the very beginning of cities and which still today form the backbone of every urban region. Throughout…

Sometimes it only takes a little, even just an idea, a sudden curiosity, to begin a research project. It happened in 2009 with a contribution on the pages of this…

The Serpentine Summer Galleries, erected for a three month period every year in London, have brought together the work of such significant architects as Zaha Hadid, Oscar Niemeyer, Jean Nouvel,…

For the Serpentine Pavilion 2013, I have created a translucent architecture, a terrain that encourages people to explore the site in new and diverse ways. Within the pastoral context of…

Un viaggio attraverso le architetture contemporanee di Seattle.

Fort “Werk aan ‘t Spoel” is a national monument dating from 1794. Part of the New Dutch Waterline – a military defense line making use of intentional flooding – it…

Hope Forest is a sport center in the outskirts of Bogotá where the community can practice several sports and take part of different recreational and academic activities that lead to…

The transformation of Marseille’s World Heritage-listed harbour was officially inaugurated on Saturday during a ceremony attended by Eugène Caselli, President of Marseille Provence Métropole and Jean-Claude Gaudin, the Mayor of…

Itinerario dedicato alle architetture contemporanee di Hong Kong e Shenzhen.

It’s a new cursor at the foot of the Troll Wall; The architecture of the new visitors‘ center next to E139 is an outcome of the sites‘ close connection to…

Kontum Indochine Café is designed as a part of a hotel complex along Dakbla River in Kontum City, Middle Vietnam. Adjacent to Dakbla Bridge, a gateway to Kontum City, the…

BES pavilion is a service space for an open community, focusing on the aspects of art and culture. Located in the central Ha Tinh city, BES (Bamboo + Earth +…

The National September 11 Memorial is an eight acre plaza set within the dense urban fabric of Lower Manhattan, where the former World Trade Center Twin Towers once stood. The…

Viewed from the outside, exhibition halls are actually nothing more than a stack of big boxes. They require very few windows and architectural distinctions are deemed as impractical restrictions on…

The concept envisions an urban plaza of overlapping zones including an Urban Valley, a Red Carpet Zone, a Walk of Fame and the BIFF Canal Park. The urban plaza is…

‘Plassen’ (meaning the square or the space in Norwegian) is formed like a giant paper cutting. The building literally grabs the city square, Gørvellplassen. It cuts and folds the surface,…

We aimed at a wooden schoolhouse of our age. The building consists of a big roofing and materiality of wood for interior and exterior. By changing its length and height…

As a lively market place it is leaving it´s mark upon the city just as well as does the historic monuments that are significant tourist attractions. Our contribution to the…

The Red Bull Music Academy (RBMA) is a nomadic annual music festival. For the last 14 years, this event has been held in a different world city, welcoming the sixty…

Café, theatre, local landmark, meeting place and poem – the Movement Café in Greenwich is all of this and more. The café turned a hole in the ground left by…

A tour through the Warsaw’s contemporary architectures

          presentazione/introduction Planning along the street text by Marco Casamonti editoriale/editorial Modernity of Via Novissima, Paolo Portoghesi a dialogue with Marco Casamonti and Vittorio Pizzigoni letture critiche/critical lectures…

In the European city and, more in general, in all urban contexts that are inspired by it, the street represents the place the buildings look onto, the border between the…

Via Novissima: Josef Paul Kleihues, Hans Hollein, Massimo Scolari Preparatory to the research conducted by the magazine on the subject of the urban building (architectures inserted in the masonry curtain of…

Parma July 12 2013 My initiation to architecture as a student took place by the fence around the INA Building site in Via Cavour in my home town. Watching from…

Just before a Korean pop-song became a global success on YouTube for the first time in history, and Gangnam became world famous as the nouveau riche hangout of the South-Korean…

Our challenge was to unite three existing buildings with different architectural characteristics to house the Museu de Arte do Rio, the school “A Escola do Olhar” as well as cultural…

The building is located on Tatarbeyi Sokak, is one of the most virginal and underdeveloped streets of the rapidly transforming Galata District under conservation. Comprised of eight 80 sqm studio…

Archea took over the task of planning the construction of a residential building in via Maestri Campionesi in central Milan in 2009. The project centres on the external facades, the…

photo by ECDM architectes The project takes place into a heterogeneous district made of buildings of any sizes, of any styles, any periods. It’s an environment slightly old-fashioned, hybrid and…

photo by Matías Pérez Illeras In a context of consolidated historical neighborhood of Madrid, the architects faced strict dimensions and facade regulations. The idea was to make the most out…

Hotel Astoreca has been the subject of a competition, with the purpose of renovating an old building in a part of the harbour of Valparaiso that has been declared Unesco…

Following two demolition campaigns for a world exhibition in 1913 and an administrative centre never built in the 60s, Ghent’s historic heart degenerated for decades into a desolate parking lot…

We cannot exclude the probability that our urban area might degenerate into a faceless city unawares consequent on ideational identity incurred by prevailing outward appearance with no difference through indiscriminate duplication…

This project is the expression of several conceptual ideas that guided our team work from competition stage to building completion. The school existed since 1908 and was looking for a…

The site of the new Cathedral Forum is central Lund, directly south of the cathedral. On the site there are two historical buildings to be kept. The rebuilding project is…

The Casa della Giovane or home for young women, the recent project in Genoa by Franz Prati and Una2, is an example of a building that is part of the…

Architecture is more than simply producing images, spaces and thinking of technical solutions. It is a far more complex process in which one looks for a synthesis on various levels…

The commission for this social housing project came from SIEMP, a public enterprise whose surgical, case-by-case approach responds to the city’s revised urban renewal strategy. Contrary to the 1980s-90s policy…

photo by Sue Barr Town Hall Hotel is a new 98-room luxury hotel, restaurant and bar housed in the old Bethnal Green Town Hall, at the heart of London’s burgeoning…

The identity of the public space in our cities is, from many points of view, hard to define and in continuous evolution. On the one side it is manifesting clear…

Rhein-Ruhr area’s contemporary architectures

            presentazione/introduction Informal community text by Marco Casamonti slum history: timeline by Laura Arrighi editoriale/editorial Re-thinking the informal city text by Rahul Mehrotra letture critiche/critical lectures Gran Horizonte:…

If images of slums, informal and spontaneous communities, favelas or whatever we want to call urban areas of poverty and hardship dominated the first room of the Corderie dell’Arsenale at…

The expression slum is being used far too indiscriminately today. One speaks of informal settlements in more or less scientific terms, referring to different realities. However, the facility with which…

Today in most cities around the world there exist several forms of urbanism that coexists on the same space. These varied concepts of urbanism (whether Everyday Urbanism, New Urbanism, Post-Urbanism…

“The city is not prepared for the people, and the people are not prepared for the city” – the Perez family; Caracas, Venezuela In the last two years we have…

Women – The Project Worldwide Always faithful to his 28mm lens, which gets close to the model in a way that makes it as expressive as possible, JR takes his…

The building of a public school in the village of Fansirà Corò is part of a public infrastructure program promoted by AFRICABOUGOU, an Italian non-profit organization that furthers education initiatives…

The success of Kéré Architecture’s Primary School in Gando, Burkina Faso, attracted many more children from the surrounding area and an extension had to be built. As part of this…

The Incremental Housing Strategy is the legalization of a natural construction process developed globally by the urban poor. When Urban Nouveau* arrived in India the Lehman brothers had recently collapsed….

Klong Toey is currently the largest and oldest areas of informal dwellings in Bangkok. More than 140.000 people is estimated to live here, and most are living in sub-standard houses…

The problem may at first seem complex and multifaceted, but the solution is disarmingly simple. How do we meet the need for a shelter meeting minimal requirements for the most…

The challenge of our first project was to accommodate a hundred families using a subsidy of $7,500 dollars that in the best of the cases allowed for thirty-six square meters…

The first part of this project involved a new and revolutionary approach to urban planning. Our extensive past experience working in the barrios and with their community leaders has taught…

Torre David, a 45-story office tower in Caracas designed by the distinguished Venezuelan architect Enrique Gómez, was almost complete when it was abandoned following the collapse of the Venezuelan economy…

We understand residence as a synonym of city. And we do understand that housing production on a large scale constitutes a basic part of the city production. Collective architecture projects…

H3O PARK is located along the third fountainhead of the city o Belo Horizonte in the middle of Favela da Serra, an informal settlement with a population of 50,000 inhabitants…

After 3 months spent in fall 2010 by research in Rio de Janeiro‘s biggest slum, so called Favela Rocinha, the concept of regeneration became clear. The way of demolition, isolation…

The project “Living the Community” has focused on the favelas of Babilonia and Chapéu Mangueira, located behind the Bairro do Leme, which have already been involved in the Morar Carioca…

photo by Leonardo Finotti photo by Leonardo Finotti photo by Leonardo Finotti photo by Leonardo Finotti photo by Leonardo Finotti photo by Leonardo Finotti photo by Leonardo Finotti photo by…

This number focuses on the experience and the use of color in all its shades, through contemporary design and interior architecture projects.

Any creative act, project, artistic discipline or, more simply, any product of human activities provokes sensations or sentiments that interfere with our senses, stimulating them and rousing us from indifference….

“The way we experience colour is a question of culture. Just as senses and perception are linked to memories and identification, our relationship with colour is solidly rooted in our…

Marco Casamonti: Oikos is synonymous with color and materials for architecture, topic to which this special issue of Area 127+ is devoted. How do these two elements get along together and…

Moroso leather system. Photo by Valentina Muscedra Marco Casamonti: When we look at the Moroso materials, from the leathers to the fabrics, we see that they are not random choices,…

The free standing ceramic washbasin, Le Giare collection, special colored for the Antinori Winery. Designed by Claudio Silvestrin. Photo by Valentina Muscedra. Marco Casamonti: At a time when ceramic for the…

Laura Andreini: Area è una rivista specializzata in architettura e arti del progetto e ogni anno, per il Salone del Mobile, dedica un numero al design ma anche a tematiche…

Katia Carlucci: Are you a painter, an architect or a stylist? Michele Chiocciolini: Painting introduces you to your soul, shows you fragments of intimate architecture; architecture is the shape of…

What is your favourite colour? What colour does your projects identify with the most? Gaudy, rainbow, gradients, pastel colours, bright colours, neon colours but also nice earthy tones.Often we prefer…

What is your favourite colour? What color does your products identify with the most? We have no favourite colour. Every product or space has it’s own quality and therefore we…

Do-Lo-Rez is a union of two pieces, rug and sofa, conceived as a single element: Sofa by Moroso and Rug by Nanimarquina Level(s) in Tandem The Do-Lo-Rez collection, designed by…

What is your favourite colour? What colour does your products identify with the most? The essential idea of the HÅG SoFi design project was to create a shape that could…

Qual è il tuo colore preferito? E quale quello che identifica di più i tuoi progetti? Io non ne farei una questione di colore preferito in senso assoluto, quanto quale…

What is your favourite colour? What color does your products identify with the most? My favourite colour is one of those that it is hardest to use efficiently in the…

What is your favourite colour? What color does your products identify with the most? Red is clearly my favorite color. I try to work with affirmed and joyous colors. I love…

What is your favourite color? What color does your products identify with the most? It depends on my mood and the situation it is used. For myself I like dark…

Røros Tweed are known for heavy duty blankets, woven from Norwegian wool in a nordic modern design.  Photo by Espen Grønli Knut What is your favourite colour? What colour does…

The Pla collection arose from the desire to create a collection of colourful and versatile crockery and cutlery, whilst seeking a valid alternative to the use of plastic. Pla is produced…

The Woods is the second collaboration between the Norwegian design studios StokkeAustad and Andreas Engesvik, Oslo. The inspiration was found in the forests and the lights of the North. A…

“The kitchen is the room in the house where people spend the most time, and more than ever it is the featured area In contemporary architecture, the part of the…

The “Geo Metrica” collection of centerpiece retrieves the graphic signs of Artias, star of French culture in the last century, a friend of Picasso who, after having adorned numerous awards…

What is your favourite colour? What color does your products identify with the most? My favourite colour is green, I like all its nuances; they make me feel serene when…

“Blue pill or red pill?” The Matrix (1999) The concept of utility is gradually becoming more and more nebulous among the objects that surround us. What we now demand of…

What is your favourite colour? What colour does your products identify with the most? We don’t have a favourite color but the green that we used in our first project…

March 1, 2013: Swatch celebrates 30 years.The new Summer 2013 Collection is a feast for the eyes and emotion for the heart. Swatch confirms its style with a wide variety…

Marco Casamonti introduces area 133: Chile

Miquel Adriá presents the case of Chile, which has burst upon the scene after years on the sidelines, with the most interesting and original architecture in the whole American continent.

          presentazione/introduction Identity of the landscape: less aestethic more ethics text by Marco Casamonti editoriale/editorial Landscape infrastructures text by Stan Allen letture critiche/critical lectures On landscape and…

Archea Associati, Antinori Winery – photo by Pietro Savorelli Among the many Venice Biennials that have been held there are two, more than twenty years apart, whose messages, expressed in…

From the biological to the geological. If mere survival, mere continuance, is of interest, then the harder sorts of rocks, such as granite, have to be put at the top…

I had a dream. When I dream, and I often do, I sometimes decide to fly: it is always a matter of a low flight, topographic, almost like an induced…

ETAR de Alcântara, Lisbon, Portugal (2005-2011). Photo by Diogo Bento A lot has already been written on landscape design, and one often runs the risk of suggesting and accepting simplistic…

Located in the desert-like landscape of New Mexico, Spaceport is the first building of its kind in the world. Its design aims to articulate the thrill of space travel for…

It is therefore clear that the project could not be understood as the construction of a new headquarters or the realization of a new Palazzo Antinori or a new brick…

At some point in the life, not only professional, of an architect he or she will encounter places in relation to which not only the initial reaction, but also the…

The ground surface, the horizontal platform upon which most of our movements in the city occur, is very rarely the generating argument or the spatial support of a project. Perhaps…

The new building adjoins the garden wing completed at the start of the 20th century and itself the first extension of the original museum building, which was built on Frankfurt’s Schaumainkai in…

Boza-Camus House proposes a way of inhabiting the slope around a large patio, turning the house into a lookout platform.

Three main volumes, with lofty spaces and upper terraces. They worked out in such way that the internal configuration varies case by case.

The “L” shap of the house protects a big platform with exceeds the indoor area, thus producing a public space from a private commission.

La forma della casa non interferisce con il panorama: l’edificio si compone di due volumi collegati da un ponte, rispettando così la presenza della roccia e degli alberi.

A house based on a square floor plan divided into asymmetrical quadrants that spiral up to a height of four storeys.

The project for Pythagoras Museum and Gardens is the result of the international design competition held by Crotone Council with funding from the European Community in its role of encouraging…

GrupoTalca and the community of Pinohuacho collaborated to convert its territory devastated by deforestation of native forest and recent volcanic eruptions of the Villarrica volcano.

Arauco is a forestry company that called Elemental office in 2009 to develop a plan to support their workers in the process to have access to their definitive house.

This project started as a competition masterplan’s first place, which involved territorial planning on a 550 ha land of ravines, water reservoirs, hills and vineyards.