Huaxin Exhibition Centre
Scenic Architecture Office designed a building in dialogue with the pre-existing trees.The building represents a connection between men and nature.
Chinese art between rubble and shards
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 with heaps of rubble.
Presentation of Area 137
Wednesday January 21st Area will present the last issue dedicated to chinese architecture identity.
Contemporary itinerary: Bilbao
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.
area 137 – chinese identity
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.
Focus Green
Area 137 Design Focus will deal with sustainability.
Second life. The second life of objects
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 least for a while.
Public kindergarten in the former fairgrounds in Milan
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 integrated with respect to the placement o …
Reconstruction of a former textile mill in Zurich
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 expanded in 1945 to host the Swiss College of Textiles. The new s …
Juhani Pallasmaa. The introspective intrigues of a Finnish forest
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.