Interview to Massimo Alvisi
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 …
Fjordenhus
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 with Kjetil Thorsen …
Public Luxury: public anti-terrorist art
“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 of works that tell stories about h …
Extension in Brunico by Barozzi Veiga
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 laid on configuring an extension that allowed …
A dialogue with Ricardo Flores and Eva Prats
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 Vat …
The ancient Abbaye de Villers
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 and split by the N275 national road so it loose …
MILANO – MOSCA at Triennale di Milano
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 to the host city and countr …
A45
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 team of Bjarke Ingels Group desi …
Unfolding Pavilion 2018
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 will enter Gino Valle’s Giudecc …
Manifesta: The Planetary Garden. Cultivating Coexistence.
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 16 June 2018 until 4 November 2018. The conce …