NEWS
05-08-2022
Book, Le Belle Poste Palazzi storici di Poste Italiane
As testimonies and centrepieces of city life, imposing and monumental protagonists of important squares in Italian city centres, the historic buildings of Poste Italiane are presented in the volume 'Le Belle Poste' recently reprinted by Franco Maria Ricci Editore to celebrate the 160th anniversary of the foundation of the public body
04-08-2022
KAAN Architecten Geo and Environmental Centre GUZ Tübingen
On the campus of the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen, Kaan Architecten designed the new GUZ geo-environmental centre, a state-of-the-art facility for interdisciplinary research on environmental issues. This is the first work that the studio, founded and led by Kees Kaan, Vincent Panhuysen and Dikkie Scipio, has undertaken in Germany
03-08-2022
Giovanni Vaccarini Architetti Riviera 107 Pescara
Architect Giovanni Vaccarini has revisited the theme of the Adriatic "palazzina" (apartment building) for Riviera 107, an elegant residential development built on the seafront of the city of Pescara. The short film The Living Section, produced by The Piranesi Experience and directed by Fabio Paolucci, was recently presented, featuring architect Giovanni Vaccarini himself leading the viewer to discover his project
Architecture and materials
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Blog
05-08-2022
2022 Architecture Drawing Prize: 5 more weeks to enter
The Architecture Drawing Prize was launched in 2017 by Make Architects, Sir John Soane's Museum and the World Architecture Festival. The prize, sponsored by the Iris Ceramica Group this year with Floornature as European media partner, was established to celebrate architectural design; the deadline for submissions is 9 September 2022.
04-08-2022
Sporta pils dārzi in Riga, European Prize for Urban Public Space finalist
The "Sporta pils dārzi" urban community garden in Riga, Latvia, created by Artilērijas dārzi, is the result of a community initiative to recover an abandoned lot and presents itself as a new type of public space. Here, a combination of productive, cultural and social logics, as well as nature, are integrated into a shared urban place. The project is one of the five finalists of the 2022 European Prize for Urban Public Space.
03-08-2022
Sarah Eick, 100 places in Berlin, postcards from the German capital
German photographer Sarah Eick has collected some of her photographs of Berlin, offering an almost nostalgic touch, in a format that is perfect for the holiday period: namely that of postcards. The 100 places in Berlin book invites you to walk around the German capital, directing your gaze beyond the stereotypical imagination.
Podcast
Design&Trends
04-08-2022
Mondrian Evolution, a Fondation Beyeler exhibition celebrating the 150th anniversary of the artist’s birth
To celebrate the 150th anniversary of the birth of Piet Mondrian and the twenty-fifth anniversary of its own establishment, Fondation Beyeler in the Swiss town of Riehen has organised a major monographic exhibition covering the evolution of the Dutch master’s artistic career, from The Hague School to the geometric extremes of Neoplasticism, in eighty-nine artworks exhibited in nine different galleries.
THE ARCHITECTS SERIES
The Architects Series – A documentary on: CZA
PROJECTS
29-07-2022
Projects
B2 Architecture: Kabelovna Studios in Holesovice, Prague
B2 Architecture’s Kabelovna Studios represents interior design style for recording studios and post-production areas.
26-07-2022
Inspiring Spaces
Originality and expressive power: coverings and furnishings inspired by agate
In addition to traditional covering materials, high-tech ceramic can now faithfully reproduce the aesthetic properties of precious minerals such as agate.
20-07-2022
Projects
OPEN Architecture: Pinghe Bibliotheater in Shanghai
As part of the plan for Shanghai’s new Pinghe school district, OPEN Architecture built the Bibliotheater, combining books with the performing arts: a landmark that looks “a bit like a blue whale and a bit like a transatlantic liner” connecting the school with the community.
15-07-2022
Projects
Archstudio: Courtyard villa in Tangshan, Hebei, China
In a twist on the traditional Chinese ‘siheyuan’, Archstudio has created a contemporary villa in Tangshan built around a central courtyard.
12-07-2022
Inspiring Spaces
Aesthetic quality, efficiency and energy savings: Granitech ventilated façades
The Iris Ceramica Group’s new-generation ceramic materials allow the Granitech ventilated façade system to optimise buildings’ performance and energy efficiency, improving living quality.
13-07-2022
Projects
Barozzi Veiga: Artists’ Ateliers in London’s Design District
In the middle of an urban regeneration plan in the new Design District on London’s Greenwich peninsula, Barozzi Veiga has designed Artists’ Ateliers made up of two opposite but related volumes.
12-07-2022
Inspiring Spaces
Aesthetic quality, efficiency and energy savings: Granitech ventilated façades
The Iris Ceramica Group’s new-generation ceramic materials allow the Granitech ventilated façade system to optimise buildings’ performance and energy efficiency, improving living quality.
13-07-2022
Projects
Barozzi Veiga: Artists’ Ateliers in London’s Design District
In the middle of an urban regeneration plan in the new Design District on London’s Greenwich peninsula, Barozzi Veiga has designed Artists’ Ateliers made up of two opposite but related volumes.
05-07-2022
Inspiring Spaces
Unique welcoming atmospheres: the magic of nature in Fiandre’s wood-effect surfaces
The look of wood is brought back to life in top-quality ceramic slabs guaranteeing resistance, impermeability, security and durability.
Biographies
Architect
Aldo Rossi
Aldo Rossi (1931-1997) graduated from Politecnico di Milano in his native city of Milan in 1959 and immediately began pursuing an intense theoretical and teaching career, working with historic magazines such as Casabella - Continuità (1955 to 1964), Società and Il Contemporaneo and serving as editor-in-chief of Marsilio’s Polis series. In his youth he added numerous trips abroad to his cultural ....
Architect
Herzog & de Meuron
A point of reference in contemporary architecture, the architectural firm Herzog & de Meuron was established in 1978 by Swiss architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron, both born in Basel in 1950 and graduated from Zurich Polytechnic in 1975 (Aldo Rossi was one of their instructors). Both Herzog and de Meuron combine teaching with their professional architecture work; they taught at Harvard from 1989 to 1994 and have taught at Eth Polytechnic in Basel since 1999. ....
Architect
Cino Zucchi
Milan architect, Cino Zucchi (1955) graduated from MIT, Cambridge in Art and Design and then Architecture from the Politecnico di Milano (1979), where he currently lectures in Architectural and Urban Design. Actively engaged in theory and teaching, over the past two decades he has held numerous seminars and conferences at prestigious institutions (Harvard, Florence, Madrid and Zurich). A member of many international research groups, such as "ARE_Living ....