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01-05-2018

Diesel Living with Iris Ceramica 2018: Out of This World

Milan Design Week saw a preview of 5 new collections of exclusive porcelain tiles from the ongoing partnership between Iris Ceramica and Diesel Living. Out of This World is inspired this time by the landscape of Mexico: a strongly expressive world, between past and present, full of atmosphere and marked by co-existing natural and urban contrasts.

20-04-2018

Façade of polymeric cement masonry blocks in Mexico City

A new building in Mexico City has a façade made of polymeric cement masonry blocks with an exuberant form that tests the material and the statics of the façade in an unusual design combination.

18-04-2018

Davanzo Associati: Adult day care centre for Alzheimer’s patients in Castelfranco Veneto

The design of Davanzo Associati’s adult day care centre for Alzheimer’s patients in Castelfranco Veneto was inspired by Cary S. Henderson’s “Partial Vision. An Alzheimer’s Journal”. In Martina Davanzo’s project, patients can walk around a circular route which acts as a filter between inside and outside.

16-04-2018

A façade of catenary curves for OMA’s Faena Forum

The Faena District is a series of three buildings of bold visual impact which do not need illuminated signage to become landmarks in the city by both day and night, with their white finishes and the seductive shapes of the curves in its design.

30-03-2018

MUURmelaar, a soundscape building by DMOA

Belgian architectural studio DMOA created its own headquarters in Leuven, with an interactive architecture with a façade that seems to be “alive” thanks to the development of a soundscape realised in collaboration with the Research for Design Group of the University of Leuven Department of Architecture.

30-03-2018

Steven Holl’s horizontal skyscraper in Shenzhen, China

Steven Holl has constructed a building the size of the Empire State Building in China, nicknamed the horizontal skyscraper

29-03-2018

Escher Park and House B residential projects by E2A in Zurich

Two different residential projects in Zurich by E2A, the studio of brothers and architects Piet and Wim Eckert, composed of 11 residential blocks and one single-family home.