The July-August issue of Domus 1070 focuses on whether or not contemporary architecture can change the past. Guest Editor 2022 Jean Nouvel, in his editorial, talks about a new trend for architecture: prolonging the life of buildings by interweaving the existing with new inventions, such as Viollet-le-Duc. “Will architecture seize these opportunities for osmosis to prove that it is still capable of surprising, inventing, and accommodating period testimonies?”
Domus 1070 is on newsstands, an issue dedicated to the right to change the past
The July and August magazine focuses on the possibility of modifying the past through architecture, with an in-depth look at the work of the duo Neri&Hu. Browse the gallery to discover the contents of the magazine.
Text Jean Nouvel. Photo Foto Stefan Altenburger. Courtesy of Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich. © Urs Fischer
Text Jorge Otero-Pailos. Photo Marco Cappelletti. Courtesy of La Biennale di Venezia
Text Laura Fregolent. Photo courtesy of UNA studio © Melania dalle Grave, DSL studio
Text Sarah M. Whiting. Photo Jiaxi Yang & Zhu Zhe
Text Neri&Hu. Photo Chen Hao
Text Neri&Hu. Photo Pedro Pegenaute
Text Neri&Hu. Photo
Text Neri&Hu. Photo Chen Hao
Text MVRDV. Photo © Ossip van Duivenbode
Text Sou Fujimoto Architects. Photo Katsumasa Tanaka
Text Alessandro Benetti. Photo Iwan Baan
Text Serge Schoemaker Architects. Photo MWA Hart Nibbrig
Text Anty Pansera. Photo Zhang Zhizhou. Courtesy of Gaetano Pesce office and Design Society
Text Olivier Schmitt. Photo Michael Moran. Courtesy of Frederick Fisher and Partners
Text Alessandro Benetti. Photo © IART
Text Elena Sommariva. Photo Giaime Meloni
Text Cecilia Fabiani. Photo Enrico Fiorese
Text Giulia Ricci. Photo Francesca Iovene
Text Antonio Armano
Text Walter Mariotti. Photo UNStudio
Text UNStudio. Photo UNStudio
LaGuardia Airport’s new Terminal B, with two island concourses accessed from the main terminal through two pedestrian bridges, reflects the soul and the conformation of the city. A soul that is also highly technological.
Text WSP / HOK. Photo WSP / HOK
Text Arne Lijbers
Text Bianca Pischetola. Photo MaaS
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- 07 July 2022
This is followed in the Essays by Jorge Otero-Pailos, lecturer and director of the Historic Preservation course at Columbia University’s GSAPP, who critiques the need to think about architectural design also through the life cycle of its components: a way of creating meaning by relocating materials through space and time. Following this, architect Laura Fregolent reflects on the pressure exerted by tourism on Venice and the main Italian and European historical centers, which has heavy implications on the physical and social fabric of cities.
The first part of the Architecture section is dedicated to the work of Neri&Hu. The Shanghai studio reveals great mastery in working with proportions, surfaces, textures and details, eschewing the rhetoric of form. Their projects include The Waterhouse at South Bund, in Shanghai, reuse of a former military building used by the Japanese army in the 1930s. Fuzhou Teahouse follows this, a tea house imagined as a building resting on a rock. The Chuan Malt Whisky Distillery 30, in Shenzhen, on the other hand, is a project for a distillery for the first whisky produced in China by Pernod Ricard. Closing the sequence is Nantou City Guesthouse 28, an 11-room guesthouse in the city of Nantou.
The section continues with the Rotterdam Rooftop Walk project by MVRDV in Rotterdam. Realized for Rotterdam Architecture Month, the suspended walk draws attention to urban rooftops and their potential as public spaces. On the other hand, the Shiroiya Hotel by Sou Fujimoto Architects is part of the redevelopment of the city center, the project aims to renovate and expand the existing hotel. SO-IL and Freaks Architecture present a large undulating surface of cast-in-place concrete incorporating three buildings of an old disused glass factory. Finally, Serge Schoemaker tells us about the renovation of a military fort near the Dutch town of Hoofddorp.
The Design pages focus on the work of Italian designer Gaetano Pesce. Design historian and critic Anty Pansera writes how, as a true pioneer, Pesce turned to design as an art form that was always attentive to social issues. Recounting his approach is a major solo exhibition dedicated to his work, which has toured China’s major museums.
The issue closes with a final reflection by journalist, former art editor and Le Monde theatre critic Olivier Schmitt. In his paper, he analyses the chain of command that governs construction everywhere, then states that “the buildings of tomorrow must also belong to all of us: to those who are sensitive to the beautiful, the just, the useful, the durable.”
This month’s Diario, pages dedicated to current affairs, is opened by the Points of View section, where editor Jane Withers and engineer Lydia Kallipoliti discuss the alternative visions that design is generating to cope with climate change. Michele De Lucchi’s new Novartis Pavilion follows: a metal shell clad with 10,000 organic photovoltaic cells. The Piovenefabi studio designs the new Camper showroom in Rome full of references, there is a bit of Sottsass, Archizoom and David Hockney, and then there is the baroque architecture of the nearby Piazza di Spagna. Andrea Bajani tells us about the flat where he wrote his novel Ogni promessa (Every promise), written in a borrowed house overlooking the sea becomes the “beacon for a writing in a storm”. Finally, publishing director Walter Mariotti talks to Mike Meiré, co-founder of the cultural production company Neo Noto to promote collaboration between artists and companies.
Attached to this double issue is the fifth issue of DomusAir, a special issue devoted entirely to transport and connections in the post-covid era. The focus of the issue is “Digital Connections. Moving beyond the physical infrastructure” and is divided into five sections: Hot Tips, topics, ideas and people at the forefront of the field of transport and aviation; Projects, the ongoing projects of stations, airports and bridges around the world; Technology, or digital innovation as a driver of change, including drones and hydrogen-powered trains; Sustainability, on the global impact of interconnections; and finally Take Off, an essay by Giulio De Carli on the construction of the infrastructure of the future.
In the editorial of Domus 1070, the guest editor talks about a new trend for architecture: prolonging the life of buildings by interweaving the existing with new inventions, such as Viollet-le-Duc.
Lecturer and director of the Historic Preservation course at Columbia University's GSAPP, Jorge Otero-Pailos writes about the need to think architectural design through the life cycle of its components: a way of creating meaning by relocating materials through space and time.
Architect Laura Fregolent reflects on the pressure exerted by tourism on Venice, but also on the main Italian and European historic centres, has heavy implications on the physical and social fabric of cities.
When the challenge is to engage with the existing, the Shanghai-based practice shows great skill in working with proportions, surfaces, textures and detailing, shunning the rhetoric of form.
Envisioned as a house atop a rock, the teahouse is elevated above a rammed concrete base, while its sweeping copper roof echoes the roofline of the enclosed architectural relic.
A former military building used by the Japanese army in the 1930s, where the real effort in this project was to contain the restoration and resist the urge to correct any defects.
Three years ago, the firm won the design competition, accepting the challenge to design a distillery for the first whisky produced in China by Pernod Ricard. Bounded on three sides by a stream, the site exemplifies the Chinese concept of duality of natural elements.
In an urban village (cheng-zhong- cun), remnants of pre-industrial settlements are nestled amid a seemingly modern metropolis. Nantou City, where this 11-room guesthouse is located, is one example of such a village. The project is inspired by the scenes of daily life in the city’s alleyways.
Created for Rotterdam Architecture Month, the elevated walkway draws attention to urban rooftops and their potential as public space.
Part of the regeneration of the city centre, the project renovated and expanded the existing hotel. By hybridising architecture, landscape and art, the new structure provides a frame of reference for the Maebashi of the future.
A large undulating surface of cast-in-place concrete unifies three buildings of an old disused glassworks and creates a public square that gives the industrial complex a new identity as a cultural centre.
Integrated into the landscape and partly underground, the military fort near the Dutch town has been reclaimed and set in an urban park. The memory of the place is now combined with new cultural and educational activities.
A true pioneer, Pesce has treated design as a form of art, and always with an eye to social issues. His approach is recounted in a major solo exhibition devoted to his work, which has been travelling to the principal Chinese museums.
Journalist Olivier Schmitt analyses the chain of command that governs construction everywhere, stating that “the buildings of tomorrow must also belong to all of us: to those who are sensitive to the beautiful, the just, the useful, the durable”.
The envelope is the pavilion’s element that required the greatest conceptual and aesthetic effort: a metal shell clad in 10,000 organic photovoltaic cells.
There are plenty of refined references for the new Camper store in Rome designed by Piovenefabi: Sottsass, Archizoom and David Hockney, plus the baroque architecture of the nearby Piazza di Spagna.
On Venice’s San Giorgio Maggiore island, in the rooms of Le Stanze del Vetro, the exhibition “FontanaArte. House of Glass” proposes a retrospective to explore the creations of the prestigious Italian furniture and lamp brand produced under its four legendary art directors.
Opened in October 2021, Le Terrain is an interior with a public vocation and great visual impact, designed by Office Abrami Rojas, in Paris, in the 12th arrondissement.
Alessandro Pellini tells the story of the family business starting from recent years, marked by major and unexpected challenges
Editor-in-chief Walter Mariotti dedicates the opening page of the fifth issue of DomusAir to the role of infrastructure in times of crisis such as the one we are experiencing: it enhances the ability of institutions to serve citizens and accelerates respect for the environment.
The new Doha Metro Network is an urban project designed to create public spaces that enhance the urban experience at pedestrian scale and build new habits for the Doha community.
LaGuardia Airport’s new Terminal B, with two island concourses accessed from the main terminal through two pedestrian bridges, reflects the soul and the conformation of the city. A soul that is also highly technological.
Innovations in public transport will offer an increasing range of choices for getting from door to door, depending on our situation and the purpose of our journey.
Mobility-as-a-Service is a smart way to move around the city efficiently and independently, with positive effects on daily life. As has happened in Birmingham, Alabama.