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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.