Troquer Fashion House
Zeller & Moye used a dense grid of golden anodized aluminium bars for the interiors of Troquer’s new headquarters, the online retail company now based in Mexico City.
Bravoure
The Belgium Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale celebrates a Flemish know-how that has distant roots but is not the nouvelle vague of architecture, says Jan De Vylder one of the curators.
Rubjerg Knude Lighthouse
This spring the Rubjerg Knude Lighthouse, in Denmark, was reopened with an architectural installation giving the chance to enjoy the unique vistas from its top.
Hem House
In the typical Vietnamese Hems – very narrow alleys where houses are usually small and dark – Sanuki Daisuke designed a building that assures privacy and natural light, through clever solutions.
From the first sketch
From Sketch to Construction is a collaboration between two french design houses and a tribute to the architect profession, from the first sketch to the building site.
Reset Modernity!
The show at ZKM/Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe analyses how to approach our times when they are threatened by radical changes that alter the very essence of the environment we live in: climate loss of control, power of images, globality.
Do you know who Elio Fiorucci was?
Often underestimated by the fashion world, the Italian designer revolutionised it from the bottom up, reading the reality around him with rare lucidity and anticipating styles and trends.
Mendini: Appt N.50
Alessandro Mendini pays homage to Le Corbusier: the event at the Appartement N.50 invites designers every year to dialogue with spaces at the Unité d’Habitation.
Roni Horn
“The Selected Gifts, 1974-2015” is an exhibition by Roni Horn at the Fondation Beyeler with objects photographed received over the past forty years as a gift.
Niarchos Cultural Center
Designed by RPBW in Athens, the Niarchos Cultural Centre is an important cultural and educational project, comprising the National Library of Greece and the Greek National Opera.
Ai Weiwei: translocation, transformation
Made of 1,005 worn life jackets floating like lotus blossoms on the waters of the baroque ponds at the park of the Upper Belvedere, the new Ai Weiwei’s work F Lotus addresses the current refugee crisis.
China’s path towards more human architecture
China is the most critical and significant example – for the numbers/proportions with which building impacts on the economy and in society and for the speed and entity of the modernisation phenomena in motion – if we are to determine and assert a potential social and collective role for architecture.
Qualsiasità
The Qualsiasità of the eye is translated into a photograph of the day-to-day, attentive to the minor aspects of an area and devoted to the landscape taken as the prime observation point.
Dead space and ruins
At Calvert 22, London, four artists working with film and photography present the decaying architectural reminiscence of the Soviet vision.
Design for Next
Design for Next promoted by La Sapienza in Rome, to be held 2017, seeks to discover future fields of investigation in design. The call for ideas is open until August 15.
Domus 1004 on newsstands
In July–August issue The New Tate Modern by Herzog & de Meuron with a text by Deyan Sudjic and The Feuerle Collection by John Pawson and Realarchitektur Petra Petersson; the opinion of seven architects about the Venice Architecture Biennale and a taste fo Brazil with texts by Frampton and Bucci.
Daydreaming with Kubrick
Contemporary artists, film makers and musicians showcase works inspired by Stanley Kubrick in the Somerset House exhibition curated by Mo’Wax and DJ James Lavelle.
House in the woods
Derived from the archetypal image of the house, Jean Verville developed a graphic assemblage for this cottage in Canada to stimulate the imaginary of its inhabitans, a couple with two children.
The Bones Are Ours
Michael Rakowitz’s installation deploys fin de siècle Istanbul’s architectural remains as a counternarrative to the city’s rich multiethnic historical development
Un art pauvre
An exhibition at the Pompidou Centre presents a range of artistic practices – from art to design, cinema, music and live performance – whose common ground is represented by the notion of “poor”.
Friends+Design
Maria Cristina Didero and Tulga Beyerle explored the relationships between seven international designers, brought to the public in the shape of new works at the SKD Museum.
House in Sierosław
Designed by mode:lina architekci, the newly built house in Sierosław, Poland belongs to a small family, is characterized by raw, minimalist but friendly spaces.
Rammed Earth House
Finalist of the Terra Award 2016, this earth house in Spain follows vernacular architecture principles and helps to re-link human to nature and to build a more sustainable architecture.
Best of #glass
Used as a structural brick, as a medium for light therapy, with poetic shapes and graphic fluo colours. Read the best stories.
“Forty” at MoMA PS1
MoMA PS1 presents “Forty”, an exhibition celebrating the institution’s 40th anniversary featuring work by over 40 artists who were key participants in the early years of the center.
Toiletpaper in Paris
Cattelan and Ferrari take over Galeries Lafayette with installations that offer visitors a witty, food-inspired take on France’s capital, in a flourish of summery colours.
LAVA: Philips Lighting
Designed by LAVA, a canopy of parametric shining leaves creates a unique gathering space in the atrium of the new Philips Lighting headquarters in Eindhoven.
Sensing the waves
The extension of the Centro Pecci in Prato surrounds the pre-existing building, cutting through it only where necessary along the exhibition circuit.
Enter Projects: LOT1
Designed by Enter Projects, Lot 1 explores complex geometry and the connection of form and functionality utilising digitally fabricated interiors.