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21-07-2017
Italian architecture by Zaha Hadid
With the exhibition at the MAXXI in Rome, her first Italian work, we discover the...
21-07-2017
David Sheppard Architects, Cob Corner, the architect’s home
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21-07-2017
Make New History, Chicago Architecture Biennial 2017
The second edition of the Chicago Architecture Biennial addresses the theme “Make New History” and focuses on a new generation of architects whose renewed interest in the history of architecture is spawning innovative, progressive work...
Dress your kitchen
21-07-2017
The ingredients in a refined, elegant dish: “Cappon magro”
A seafood and vegetable appetiser served over sailor’s biscuits, interpreted by Flavio...
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Dress your kitchen
The ingredients in a refined, elegant dish: “Cappon magro”
A seafood and vegetable appetiser served over sailor’s biscuits, interpreted by Flavio Costa, the...
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Stonepeak floors: ancient fascination, modern atmospheres
Inspired by traditional materials, Stonepeak’s Blende and Simply Modern collections of...
Photography
Aristide Russo – Discovering the Trans-Mongolian railway
The experience of his journey of a lifetime described in the reportage by Aristide Russo takes...
Projects
“Alvaro Siza. Viagem sem programa” interview with the curators
FAB Architectural Bureau in Castellarano exhibits portraits and drawings by the great Portuguese...
Mood
Urban living design: City and Mile_Stone by Porcelaingres
Inspired by observation of natural stone, Porcelaingres’s City and Mile_Stone porcelain surfaces...
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MBM Arquitectes
Deyan Sudjic writes in the prologue to his volume on MBM’s work, published in 2006 by RBA Editores, that studio MBM is not interested in creating aggressive, spectacular or “signature” architectural projects, but the value of their work lies in its recognisability and ability to express their cultural roots. The five partners who direct MBM (Martorell, Bohigas, Mackay, Capdevila and Gual) have a creative approach combining digital representation tools with freehand design. When it was founded in 1951, the studio set itself the goal of opposing Francoist style by drawing on the experiences of modern Italian architecture and the critical approach demonstrated by its contemporaries in Milan and Rome. Society and its needs became the essential values in a new architectural vocabulary. In 1992 MBM came up with the urban masterplan for the Barcelona Olympic Games, planning a number of public spaces which big names in international architecture then designed ....
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