NEWS
19-10-2018
2018 Gold Medal for Italian Architecture
The awards ceremony for the 2018 Gold Medal for Italian Architecture and the first...
18-10-2018
FREESPACE round table: Italy, Spain and Mexico.
At 15:30 on October 19th, the Italian Pavilion hosts a meeting between its curator Mario...
Architecture and materials
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Livegreen
19-10-2018
Exhibition Thresholds. Limits of Space, BNKR Munich
BNKR, the Munich-based platform for reflections on art and architecture, has rolled out a new exhibition cycle called SPACE IS THE PLACE (1/4)...
19-10-2018
Winners of The Architecture Drawing Prize 2018
In the run-up to the annual World Architecture Festival (WAF), held this year in Amsterdam, at the end of November, the winners of the second annual Architecture Drawing Prize 2018, curated by WAF, Sir John Soane’s Museum and Make Architects, were announced in London...
THE ARCHITECT SERIES
The Architects Series - A Documentary on: Ennead
At SpazioFMG per l’Architettura, the Milanese gallery and showroom operated by the...
PROJECTS
Projects
Batlle i Roig: Can Bisa centro culturale e nuove residenze
The new Can Bisa is the result of a delicate restoration project on a nineteenth-century villa and...
Architectural Solutions
Steven Holl’s Maggie’s Centre Barts is made of concrete, glass and bamboo
Maggie's Centre has a glass wrapper and a bamboo core, supported by a reinforced concrete frame...
Mood
Ariostea Pietre Naturali High-Tech for design in 2019
Porcelain surfaces are the key to design in 2019, because of the way they can easily be combined...
Projects
MAD Architects: Clover House, kindergarten in Okazaki, Japan
In their first project in Japan, MAD Architects combine the memory of the site, an old house...
Architectural Solutions
Studio Gang’s wooden tensile structure for the Writers Theatre
A small 250-seat theatre has been built in Glencoe, Illinois which originated in the back room of a...
Mood
Bathrooms and kitchens: classic and modern design from Iris Ceramica
Floor and wall coverings inspired by traditional materials such as fabrics, rocks and cements are...
Projects
Tsutsumi & Associates: Tsingpu Baisha Retreat in China
In the village of Baisha, in China’s Yunnan province, Tsutsumi & Associates have restored a...
Architectural Solutions
Copenhagen International School with solar panels by C.F. Møller Architects
A school overlooking the sea that is also one of Denmark’s most important integrated solar energy...
Mood
Design trends 2019: SapienStone kitchen tops
The design trend for the kitchen 2019 confirms the desire to experiment with new features like the...
Architetti
Richard Rogers
Born in Florence in 1933, Sir Richard Rogers is one of the best-known names in the archistar system for his famous projects built over the course of half a century, primarily with Team 4 (with Norman Foster, 1963-1967), Renzo Piano (from 1971 to 1977) and then with Rogers and Partnership. After graduating in London in 1959, Rogers continued his studies and began his career in the US, where he met many influential figures, including artists. He met Norman Foster at a master’s programme in Yale; in 1963 the two and their wives founded Team 4. Individually and with the group, Rogers designed a series of private homes and housing developments, but it was the industrial buildings in Swindon (1966) that marked a turning ....
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WORKac Arizona House in Tubac, Arizona
Only a few days left to view the docu-film in The Architects Series about WORKac at...
17-10-2018
Next Landmark Pollution 2019: Architecture for a Sustainable Future
The theme of the eighth edition of the international contest promoted by the IRIS...
16-10-2018
The 2018 RIBA Stirling Prize goes to Foster + Partners’ Bloomberg
The best new building in the United Kingdom is Foster + Partners’ Bloomberg project,...