Tag: Architecture
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...
A holistic cultural experience with Pietro Torrigiani at Todo Modo bookshops
«The name Todo Modo comes from Leonardo Sciascia’s 1974 book, which then inspired Elio Petri’s political movie but also the spiritual exercise of Saint Ignatius of Loyola»
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
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...
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
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
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
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...
Lorenzo Villoresi: raw materials and inspirations, it all starts with a Pot Pourri
The Blue Lotus discovered in Sri Lanka propels Lorenzo Villoresi into new experiments. A conversation about the Maison, the changing perfume industry, and the value of raw materials
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
1-54 London 2023: an increase in galleries from the African continent and a strong female presence
1-54 London, the 2023 edition: using technology to support women, translate climatic information through art, and engage with the disabled communities of Ghana
Isola Design, from Milan to London to build an exhibition using waste material
Nothing Happens if Nothing Happens: Isola Design for a circular design approach based on using regenerative resources, reducing carbon dioxide emissions, and repurposing waste materials
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
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
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
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»
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
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
«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»
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
King Charles represents a new facade of the United Kingdom. Monarchy stays still
The coronation of King Charles portrays an ever-growing fascination with power and sovereignty in a West-centric culture. Real life and its best scenography
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
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
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
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
Hilary Alexander – Farewell to a force behind fashion journalism
From her early days in New Zealand to becoming a leading voice in the fashion world, Hilary Alexander’s impact on the industry is unmatched like her personality
Dan Rubinstein illustrates The Grand Tourist: the leading podcast on art and design
The leading podcast on art, design, architecture and luxury told by its creator – design writer Dan Rubinstein – between anecdotes, personal thoughts and insight on the upcoming sixth season
I do You – Monica Bonvicini, the feminist reappropriation of Neue Nationalgalerie
Construction, deconstruction and reconstruction: the Italian-German artist redefines the architecture of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s symbol of modernism
Lorcan O’Neil, Rome: Dualities Suspended – Wired by Sam Taylor-Johnson
Wired by Sam Taylor-Johnson were taken in Joshua Tree National Park in California and explore the precariousness of life among success and the vulnerability of human conditions
Art-blankets: Loads of Lines – the RedDUO: Fabiola Di Virgilio and Andrea Rosso
Following on their first clay collection Third Eye, the designer duo composed by Fabiola Di Virgilio and Andrea Rosso, presents fifty hand-made and hand-painted blankets made of deadstock fabrics
A Cyborg Manifesto: Shawanda Corbett’s questioning of what a complete body is
Multi-disciplinary artist Shawanda Corbett discusses cyborg theory, ceramic, jazz music, performance and her latest exhibition Let the Sunshine In
Oslo becoming the world’s first capital with a zero-emissions public transport system
The city of Oslo plans to have a fully-electric public transport network by 2023. The next goal is to become the world's first emissions-free city by 2030
Ecovado — a British-made avocado made using beans, apples and walnuts
Central Saint-Martins graduate, Arina Shokouhi, invents an alternative the avocados with the goal to steer people towards a more sustainable option: enter the Ecovado
Raw materials: What Goes Around Comes Around, Bosco Sodi, Palazzo Grimani in Venice
Art is not fixed: Sodi’s pieces change according to the environment – and people – they are exposed to. Bosco Sodi unveils the latest show at Palazzo Vendramin Grimani in...
DjArch, London Xmas: a party in design showrooms, where the architects are DJ-ing
After the September edition in Milan, DjArch will come back with a smaller project, in the city of London, involving seventeen architecture studios, and four showrooms
Costello and Friends, London: Nicole Costello on overconsumption and capitalism
Citing capitalism as an inevitable force in this lifetime, the thesis of the store exists as a space to highlight creatives and their work while also compensating them for it
Teasing Lampoon’s newly published Muscles Issue — The Elusive Modernist in conversation with Hamed Khosravi
The lithe social muscle of an early freelancer: «As a reader and later as a writer of his character, it was not difficult to imagine [Gabriel Guevrekian] in Gertrude Stein’s house or in...
Jo Malone, English Pear and Freesia: English autumn and the orchard at harvest
John Keats’ poem To Autumn inspires a fragrance that is reminiscent of the English countryside by combining the fruit and flower
When art creates a new economy: the White Cube project in Lusanga, Congo
The post-plantation project by Renzo Martens and the Cercle d’Art des Travailleurs de Plantation Congolaise – on restitution and new art from the Global South
Amanita: the contemporary art gallery velvety hits New York
313 Bowery, now Amanita, is found in the former CBGB’s – a New York City music club opened in 1973 by Hilly Kristal in Manhattan's East Village. A conversation with...
