Potato Head Hong Kong
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, blending Fujimoto’s signature style with the group’ …
Psychiatric Center in Pamplona
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 architecture. Traces of the past are engraved in the new buildings, lik …
Google Sunnyvale
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 BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group Designed by BIG, the project con …
Mutrah Fish Market
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 Muttrah is known for its long history of commercial trade, its characteristic port, a …
CASA VERDE young women’s care home for mental health problems
cover photo by Medulla studio 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 the old historical centre of San Miniato. The “CASA VERDE” project, so called because of his …
Falmec, advanced aspiration systems
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 technology to remove smoke and odours and purify …
GFT Headquarter
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 IT services provider. This meant not only translating new …
La Seine Musicale
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 a multi-purpose concert hall with up to 6000 seats, a classical m …
Luigi Ghirri and the Photography of Place
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 consequen …
Park ‘n’ Play
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 structure, which is also an attractive public space? And how do we create a …