palace of may
‘Palace of May’ comes into being a symbolic sculpture of ‘Hi Seoul Festival 2009’ in the heart of Seoul, Seoul Plaza. This year the theme of the festival is sustainable and futuristic Seoul by dealing with interchanging between environment, human being …
thalasso hotel tenerife
This project is situated in the framework of the “Las Teresitas” beach redevelopment in Santa Cruz Tenerife. Following a competition won by Dominique Perrault in 2000, the redevelopment of Teresitas is based upon the primordial theme to respect the “na …
kiev residences
How do you create urbanity on the edges of Kiev’s twilight zone of Stalinist suburbanism? Our proposal favors high density vs. low density, variation over repetition and asymmetry before symmetry. It combines the traditional high density of the old Kie …
lillehammer ski resort
How do you create a hotel and apartment house in the mountains that offers the same standards of accessibility, circulation and logistics as a modern hotel? The starting point of the project is a traditional hotel block. The building is manipulated and …
paesaggi artificiali tra architettura e cinema
Marco Casamonti: In this issue of area, dedicated to artificial landscapes, we are trying to tackle the theme of simulation in architecture in its various facets, including that of kitsch, by presenting a number of images like the fake Venice in Las Ve …
East meets West – Tseng Kwong Chi
Self Portrait with World Center Trade Center, 1979 Photography by Tseng Kwong Chi, © 1979 by Muna Tseng Dance Projects, Inc., New York NY. Courtesy Galleria Carla Sozzani An unexpected event, a misunderstanding, you seem to be something you are not, …
Gambling… what else?
Las Vegas is in the Mojave desert. It was part of Mexico until 1855; the Hispanic name means “the lawns” because there were springs in the area that allowed a number of green oases to survive. After the United States annexed the Mexican areas, a fort w …
area 104 – introverted architecture
L’ Aquila e i centri minori frammenti di paesaggio italiano colpito dal sisma del 6 aprile foto Antonio Ottomanelli presentazione/introduction architettura introversa testo Marco Casamonti editoriale/editorial l’architettura invisibile testo Paolo Giar …
L‘Aquila e i centri minori frammenti di paesaggio italiano colpito dal sisma del 6 aprile
foto by Antonio Ottomanelli photo attestation of Sant‘Eusanio Forconese Villa Sant‘Angelo and Casentino on April 17 2009. The question of reconstruction and existing buildings Every time an old town or any consolidated environment faces dramatic and re …