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New Voices in Venice: Azerbaijan, Latvia, Lebanon and more at Biennale 2025

First-time and emerging participants reshape discourse, with Azerbaijan’s “Equilibrium” and Latvia’s border defenses challenging the Arsenale’s traditional Western narrative

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Why Rome’s Palazzine Matter to Global Architectural History

The palazzina took shape within the milieu of a prosperous upper-middle class: the architects and key figures who reshaped the Eternal City between the 1930s and the 1980s

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Trees Are the Patrons of Architecture: Inside Carlo Ratti’s 2025 Biennale

“Reforestation has to begin in a concrete, local way—tree by tree, sidewalk by sidewalk. It’s one of the few effective answers to overheated cities." An interview with Carlo Ratti about the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale

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The Venice Venice Manifesto: Creating Value That Grows Over Time

Founders of Golden Goose Alessandro and Francesca Gallo renovated old palace Ca’ Da Mosto and opened a new hotel on the Grand Canal with an avant-garde spirit

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Le Corbusier in Firminy: 60 years after the first stone was laid

Nei luoghi simbolo dell’architettura ruvida di Le Corbusier – a Firminy, un progetto di rinnovamento urbano: una serie di edifici per corpo e mente

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Brutalist, Finnish, Rough: rediscovering Alvar Aalto through his Silo in Oulu

Repurposing buildings with the ‘Geoarchaeology’ method: Factum foundations takes on a project in northern Finland – saving Alvar Aalto Silo with Skene Catling de la Peña architects

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Milan, from Rationalism to the Neo Ratio of Material

A Milanese attitude, an identity for the city of Milan: from Rationalism to the exposed engineering of the Torre Velasca, to new materials – questions and answers

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What Defines a LEED Certified Building? Core Characteristics and Global Examples

With buildings accounting to more than 40% of energy use, U.S. Green Building Council’s LEED initiatives shapes path towards reducing carbon footprints and energy consumption

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Biophilic Urbanism: a New Era of Wood-Based Design

A city of wood: though there has been recent interest in Biophilic Urbanism and the existence of wooden structures, no project of this size has been created out of this raw material

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The Kumaon, Binsar. No power for machinery, it took six months to do a job that takes ten days

Cement structures encased in bamboo; hand strung with copper wiring sourced from the neighborhood copper producing village of Tamta Mohalla

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What is Milan’s aesthetic and architectural identity?

Milan is a Rationalist city. An aesthetic that becomes identity and definition for both the city and its inhabitants: the Milanese spirit, that diligent dedication to results, innovation, and concreteness

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The Transformation of Garage Traversi and the New AP House by Audemars Piguet in a Booklet

AP House Milano explores the renovation process of Garage Traversi and delves into its connection with the urban landscape – starting from Via Bagutta and San Babila, a crossroads of Milanese culture and history.

/ architecture, Fashion

The intersection of urban architecture and green spaces in Shinjuku City

Shinjuku's energy radiates through its streets, where modern skyscrapers cast shadows over ancient shrines and serene gardens – photographer Ramona Deckers for Lampoon

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Soho Roc House, Mykonos – a village facing East, a wooden pier over the rocky seabed

The birth of Soho House, as per Nick Jones, was a necessary step away from the clubs that were in tune with the social scene in London at the time

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The shape of light with Helena Clunies-Ross: an itinerary through design that starts in Tribeca

Helena Clunies-Ross Design: from rough architecture to art deco-inspired furniture, seeking for a balance between proportions, history and modernity

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A library of swimming pools

«I hate rectangular pools – are lakes and rivers ever rectangular? I want pools for water nymphs, for diving into from a high tree, with a swim-up bar» – Gio Ponti and the organic architecture of pools

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Grande Maxxi: il progetto che cambia il volto del Museo romano di Zaha Hadid

Un progetto di rigenerazione che prevede anche la creazione di un parco urbano lineare e di un nuovo edificio con tetto-giardino – Margherita Guccione illustra i dettagli del progetto a firma dello studio LAN

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Stories of Milan – il Rubanuvole: the San Babila skyscraper tower

The story of the Rubanuvole skyscraper by architect Alessandro Rimini; the 1960s BBPR and the synthesis of Piazza Meda: the Great Master of Italian urbanism and design

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From Villa Malaparte to the Quisisana – Capri, rough with no decency

A conversation takes place in the garden of the Quisisana hotel about Capri, the roughness of the island with no decency: talking with Cesare Cunaccia. Meanwhile, Jacquemus is at Villa Malaparte

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Hungarian Stories: the Trees and the Rough Queen

The trees of Budapest: the lions of the Chain Bridge, the Habsburg Empress who became Queen of Hungary and a countess who was bricked up alive in the seventeenth century

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Nicolas Schuybroek: Arte Povera as an antidote to the society of appearance

Arte Povera and Gesamtkunstwerk, American Minimal Art and Radical architecture – Nicolas Schuybroek's work for Aesop is an installation of soap bars supported by a removable and reusable MDF structure

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Eco-urbanism – strengthening the railway system in the EU

Train transport - Expanding the trans-European night train service can enable eco urbanism, contribute to the EU environmental sustainability goals and bring European cities closer together

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New Urbanism drives me MAD

From the efforts to re imagine China's urbanism to a fashion collaboration for Fendi Peekaboo. A conversation with Andrea D'Antrassi, Associate Partner of MAD Architects

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A master according to Gio Ponti – Luis Barragán: his house and rough architecture

Rough walls that are the size of walls – screens on which the spectrum of the Mexican sun is projected. «My house is my refuge, an emotional architecture», architect Don Luis Barragán was fond of repeating

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Human body has no angles. Maison Bernard, Théoule-sur-Mer: the organic, human-centric bubble house

In 2013, Maison Bernard became an endowment fund whose purposes are the protection and the perennity of Antti Lovag’s architectural work with Pierre Bernard and also a residence for artists

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The shape of the democratic Japan – Kagawa Prefectural Government Offices

Kenzo Tange’s Prefectural Government building is a fusion between Japanese design traditions and modernist style: the role of architecture in the reconstruction of post-war Japan

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Jean-Daniel Allanche: the walls of the Atelier Moléculaire

A world of metaphysical obsession on the walls of his house - Lucile Allanche’s book of photographs and the Atelier Moléculaire

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Biophilia in the home: the art of growing furniture

Patience, Innovation, and Nature – from exclusivity to mass appeal. Full Grown's vision for the Future is about connections with the Natural World through furniture

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Design is a metamorphosis: the manipulation process of Audrey Large and Théophile Blandet

French designers Audrey Large and Théophile Blandet: «we use digital image manipulation tools: digital manufacturing is an area for bridging virtual and physical through objects»

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Fashion designers into interior design: from Kawakubo to Owens – the first was Pierre Cardin

There are plenty of designers who have trained in architecture and industrial design, such as Raf Simons, Tom Ford, Gianfranco Ferré – dubbed the fashion architect, and Virgil Abloh himself

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Charlotte Perriand hidden work: The Japanese Ambassador’s residence in Paris

The building on rue du Faubourg St Honoré in Paris is the concept subversion of domestic space conceived by Charlotte Perriand – an incursion of Japanese minimalism

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«As a kid, I was into animatronics and wooden things» recalls Bethan Laura Wood

A Mexico residency for British designer Bethan Laura Wood: «It's brutalist architecture, but it also has a big conversation with the pre-Hispanic architectural detailing»

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Unpacking Casa das Canoas (1953), Oscar Niemeyer: making concrete sexier

Immersed in the lush of Tijuca forest, Niemeyer’s Casa das Canoas blends with the natural environment of water, rock and vegetation thanks to the large transparent, undulating walls

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Felipe Escudero and the architectonic revolution in Quito – a reportage

An Architect from Ecuador is rebuilding Quito based on his Stanley Kubrick aesthetic passion. Felipe Escudero, brings a holistic approach prioritizing the positive impact on the surrounding community

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Objects of Common Interest: design is halfway between ephemeral and concrete

Eleni Petaloti and Leonidas Trampoukis are the creative minds behind the design duo Objects of Common Interest: Milan Design Week, Poikilos at Nilufar Depot

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Design and humankind: Marcel Wanders, the AI speculation in Milano with Moooi

«We are a design company, not a styling company», a talk with Marcel Wanders and the EveryHuman's Algorithmic Perfumery, a project for Moooi

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Being a duo but individual collections: Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec

For the first time in more than twenty years of career, by Erwan and Ronan Bouroullec presents two separate collections for Flos at Euroluce 2023

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Cristián Mohaded and Loro Piana: Apacheta, stone towers to mark your path

Through the Apacheta at Milan Design Week 2023, Cristián Mohaded and Loro Piana form a union rooted in Argentina, Territorio Hibrido

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BIG and Vestre: the most efficient factory in the world is built in Norway

Transparency, renewable energy, burnt wood and production flows. Optimizing to build the factory of the future: BIG and Vestre present The Plus

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Renaissance in Ferrara – Palazzo dei Diamanti re-opening by Studio Labics

Ancient and contemporary meet: architecture is a living art – the heritage of historical buildings must be made accessible and contemporary. Studio Labics vision

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Milan Design Week, contemporary design scene: Draga & Aurel – «We are just kids»

When design is not just design, but a zestful contamination of influences, creative energies and heterogeneous backgrounds. Draga & Aurel speak with Lampoon

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Massimiliano Fuksas: «both the cities and the stadiums should be redesigned»

«Stadiums are elements completely detached from the cities. They should live each day and each week of the year» Massimiliano Fuksas reflects on sport buildings

/ architecture, Tuscany

Il Borro: The rocky Tuscan land under the aegis of Ferruccio Ferragamo for 30 years

Il Borro's 30th anniversary: Ferruccio, Salvatore and Vittoria Ferragamo talk about the new exhibition at the Wine & Art Gallery – and are set to open all year round

/ architecture, Mexico

Escondido Oaxaca presents itself with a brutalist-style in Mexico

When translated into English, the Spanish word, Escondido, means hidden – like its name, the properties in Oaxaca are regarded by its founders as a hidden gem

/ architecture, Exhibitions

NM3 – contemporary modernism: raw materials, geometric rigor and functionality

Milan Design Week 2023 - the Milan-based studio presents Sistema, a collection of lamps designed in collaboration with 6:AM Glassworks

/ architecture, Como

Villa Làrio: from the lake to the hills, a suites-only structure facing Lake Como

Property of the Lombardi family in the 1890s, the core of Villa Làrio was transformed in a multi-level hotel structure over Lake Como in 2015

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The 2023 season on Lake Como at Il Sereno and Villa Pliniana – design by Patricia Urquiola

Chef Raffaele Lenzi at the Michelin-starred restaurant ll Sereno al Lago is working on fresh raw materials that spring is offering, in the elaboration of the courses presented in the tasting menu

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A contemporary architecture recognized by UNESCO in 2004 – Casa Luis Barragán, Mexico

The only individual property in Latin America recognised by UNESCO, Barragán’s home, untouched since the architect passed away in 1988, is a site that art connoisseurs and architects explore

/ architecture, Events

Nothing Happens if Nothing Happens, the theme of Isola Design Festival 2023

We’ve come to a critical time in history where designing for energy efficiency and low environmental impact requires taking immediate actions, not just words

/ architecture, zurich

The Dolder Grand, Zurich: curves and spires in dialogue with nature

It became reality in 1899: 175 rooms and suites, world-class restaurants, an art collection with over 100 works, including originals by Takashi Murakami and Salvador Dalí