NEWS
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
29-11-2022
La città è di tutti - TRANSLITERA #02
On 30 November the second edition of Translitera, a series of meetings focusing on urban regeneration organised by the Order of Architects, Planners, Landscape Architects and Conservationists of Venice in collaboration with Fondazione APPC of Venice and in partnership with M9 – Museo del '900 in Venezia Mestre, opens on 30 November
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
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.
29-11-2022
Transformation from an old bazaar into a restaurant, designed by ARQUID
The architects of the ARQUID studio have completed the renovation of an old bazaar in Madrid. The pre-existing structure was reborn as La Más Rica restaurant, offering a fusion between the maritime culture of Galicia with the more industrial style that frames the history of the Chamberí neighbourhood, where the building is located.
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.
15-11-2022
Inspiring Spaces
Porcelaingres Stardust: harmony and originality in colours inspired by clay
Porcelaingres’s Stardust collection combines the tradition of clay, a versatile material with a very long tradition, and the industrial evolution of high-tech ceramics, in a colour palette of elegant, delicate earthy colours, enriched with prestigious hues.
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.
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.
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.
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.
25-10-2022
Inspiring Spaces
Bottega d’Arte quality surface coverings: the charm of handcrafted red body tiles
Iris Ceramica’s new Bottega d'Arte collection revives all the nobility and value of the history of ceramics with an emphasis on quality workmanship in red clay.
Biographies
Architect
Mário Martins
Mário Martins was born in Lagos, Algarve – Portugal in 1964, and graduated in 1988 from the Architecture Faculty of Lisbon Technical University. He worked for about one year in the architectural practice of Manuel Graça Dias and Egas José Vieira, and occasionally with the architect João Luís Carrilho da Graça. At the end of 1988 he decided to return to Lagos, setting up Oblíqua Arquitectos with the architect Vítor Lourenço, ....
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
Piuarch
Studio Piuarch of Brera, in central Milan, was established in 1996 by Francesco Fresa, Germán Fuenmayor, Gino Garbellini and Monica Tricario with the intention of combining different skills and experience in a common architectural practice. Piuarch’s approach to design is always based on the specific features of places, optimising their potential and the architectural relationship between buildings and their urban surroundings ....