NEWS
02-12-2022
Lina Ghotmeh designs the new Serpentine Pavilion in London
French-Lebanese architect Lina Ghotmeh will design the 22nd Serpentine Pavilion, the temporary structure which, from June 2023, will host the summer programme of the Serpentine Galleries in London. The project entitled "À table" is part of the research conducted by the architect, who explores the concepts of memory, space and landscape
01-12-2022
Archisbang transforms incomplete residential building into new offices
Architectural studio Archisbang transformed and converted a incomplete residential building in the province of Turin into a new office space. The architects have made the "unfinished" condition that characterised the building for many years the key to interpretation of the new renovation project
30-11-2022
Renzo Piano and Alvisi Kirimoto Interiors of Rai News 24 television studios
The studios of Rai News 24, Italy’s 24-hour news channel, located in the Rai production centre in Rome’s Saxa Rubra district, were recently renovated with interior design by Renzo Piano and Alvisi Kirimoto translating the evolution of the multimedia scene into architectural form and revealing some of the work that goes on behind the camera
Architecture and materials
Floornature is an international portal about architecture, design and design culture, investigating the contemporary with a special focus on sustainability. Its vocation, from the micro to the macro-scale of creativity, is to present new developments in architecture and design as they happen, with the specific intention of tracking emerging trends. The portal features special focus articles on materials for architecture and interviews with great masters of architecture and design.
Blog
02-12-2022
Morphogenesis and the Lodsi community project for Forest Essentials
Morphogenesis, an Indian architecture and urban planning studio with offices in Mumbai, Pune, Bangalore and New Delhi, has created a „net zero“ emissions industrial complex for Forest Essentials. Located on the slopes of the Himalayas, the complex provides a model of sustainable development for rural communities making use of integrated passive and active design technologies.
01-12-2022
A757, a flexible condominium in Buenos Aires
The Argentinian architecture firm Hitzig Militello has built a new condominium in the Villa Crespo district of Buenos Aires. A volume characterised by linear shapes and a flexible layout, to accommodate future uses, harmoniously integrated into the urban context without sacrificing a strong visual identity, based on a monochrome palette.
30-11-2022
WAF 2022 begins in Lisbon with Floornature and the Iris Ceramica Group
The World Architecture Festival and INSIDE World Festival of Interiors begin today in Lisbon, continuing until 2 December 2022. The world-wide event for architecture is back in the Portuguese capital again, after the 2021 edition. Floornature and the Iris Ceramica Group are involved in two competitions: The Architecture Drawing Prize and The Architectural Photography Awards.
Podcast
Design&Trends
01-12-2022
Sonia Massari: “Designing sustainable food is a job for designers”
So says the Italian researcher, an expert in design thinking applied to the world of food and agriculture: the designer ought to be involved right from the start of the process of creating and producing sustainable food, to ‘join the dots’ and innovate in processes, systems and products.
THE ARCHITECTS SERIES
The Architects Series – A documentary on: Benedetta Tagliabue – EMBT
PROJECTS
16-11-2022
Projects
Equipo de Arquitectura: Childcare Centre in Villeta, Paraguay
Equipo de Arquitectura designed a raw earth building with an introspective appearance to host a children’s centre in a suburb of the city of Villeta, in Paraguay.
22-11-2022
Inspiring Spaces
LUCE collection: fascination and innovation on spectacular ceramic surfaces
All the aesthetic power of ceramic combined with the decades-long know-how of the Iris Ceramica Group comes to life in Guillermo Mariotto’s innovative LUCE collection.
11-11-2022
Projects
Dawoffice: Kamanar secondary school in Thionck Essyl, Senegal
In Thionck Essyl, in the south of Senegal, Dawoffice built Kamanar secondary school out of timber and clay.
09-11-2022
Projects
Acha Zaballa: renovation of Joyous Home, a Modernist house in Spain
Cristina Acha and Miguel Zaballa approach the restoration of an apartment in the heart of Castro Urdiales, in Cantabria, Spain, maintaining the original elements wherever possible and updating them with use of colour to produce an expressionistic project.
08-11-2022
Inspiring Spaces
New Marmi Maximum surfaces: the fascination of unique, surprising design
Fascinating and highly decorative, Fiandre Architectural Surfaces’ new marble-effect surfaces add to the vast catalogue of Marmi Maximum maxi-slabs.
02-11-2022
Projects
Ludwig Godefroy Architecture: Casa Merida in the Yucatan
Ludwig Godefroy’s Casa Mérida is an experiment in energy self-sufficiency and a “habitable garden” in which to experience a new and more complete relationship between indoors and outdoors, in which the history of the Yucatan Peninsula plays an important role.
08-11-2022
Inspiring Spaces
New Marmi Maximum surfaces: the fascination of unique, surprising design
Fascinating and highly decorative, Fiandre Architectural Surfaces’ new marble-effect surfaces add to the vast catalogue of Marmi Maximum maxi-slabs.
02-11-2022
Projects
Ludwig Godefroy Architecture: Casa Merida in the Yucatan
Ludwig Godefroy’s Casa Mérida is an experiment in energy self-sufficiency and a “habitable garden” in which to experience a new and more complete relationship between indoors and outdoors, in which the history of the Yucatan Peninsula plays an important role.
01-11-2022
Inspiring Spaces
New Ariostea Ultra Fragmenta and Ultra Graniti collections: natural artistic creations
Refined, elegant and timeless are the best adjectives to describe Ariostea’s new Ultra Fragmenta and Ultra Graniti maxi-slab collections.
Biographies
Architect
Frank Lloyd Wright
American architect Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) is one of the most important figures in 20th century architecture in terms of his impact on society and the amount of work he completed over the course of his 70 year career. His interpretation of the single-family home (prairie houses) and the community spirit of his work, which is oriented towards the middle class, make him the key figure in creation of a reference model for the American house, far removed from the ....
Architect
Frank Owen Gehry
Born in Toronto in 1929, Frank Owen Gehry moved to Los Angeles in 1947, where he first studied art and then devoted himself to architecture, earning his degree in 1954. In the early years he worked for Victor Gruen Associates and then studied urban planning at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Gehry’s work is situated in the postmodernist current and in Deconstructivism, of which he is unanimously recognized as one of the leading exponents. In his buildings, the ....
Architect
Peter Zumthor
One of the key exponents of contemporary Swiss architecture and winner of the Pritzker Prize in 2009, Peter Zumthor (1943) studied interior architecture at the Pratt Institute, New York and Schule für Gestaltung in Basel. His early career included working as a carpenter specializing in furniture (trained by his cabinetmaker father) as well as working as a building consultant for the protection of historic monuments in the Swiss canton of Grigioni (1968-1979). The ....