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15-07-2015

Hotel in Sofia: changing architecture by Lazzarini Pickering

A hotel in the Bulgarian capital city can change its façade, revealing its interior and then hiding it again as desired by the inhabitants. The hotel built in Sofia by Lazzarini Pickering maintains both continuity and contrast with the buildings around it.

08-07-2015

Finne Architects' lightweight Mazama House in Washington State

A house about to take off into flight: the shape of the roof, the idea of suspension and the relationship between inside and outside integrate the building into its context in Methow Valley, Washington State, with the light touch typical of Nils Finne's buildings

08-07-2015

Takeshi Hosaka’s Shonan Christ Church in Fujisawa (Japan)

Shonan Christ Church in Fujisawa reveals Takeshi Hosaka’s talent for invention. The roof with its concave slabs covers a single concrete volume. Takeshi Hosaka’s Shonan Christ Church makes the most of light as way of measuring the passage of time.

10-06-2015

SWA South West Architecture Looking Up SpazioFMG

SWA South West Architecture’s work will be the subject of a talk on June 18 at SpazioFMG, Iris Ceramica and FMG Fabbrica Marmi e Graniti’s gallery in Milan.

09-06-2015

Park Associati Priceless Milano temporary restaurant

Priceless Milano is a travelling temporary restaurant designed by Park Associati and built on the last floor of Palazzo Beltrami in Piazza della Scala, Milan for Expo Milano 2015 and for Mastercard’s Expo in Città programme.

09-06-2015

Takeshi Hosaka: Hongodai Christ Church and School, Yokohama

A glass building such as Takeshi Hosaka’s Hongodai Christ Church School in Yokohama achieves a degree of coexistence between the natural and artificial worlds that is itself a contradiction. Takeshi Hosaka’s Hongodai Christ Church School uses architecture to propose a new way of learning.

03-06-2015

ZAO/standardarchitecture: Micro-Yuan’er in a hutong in Beijing

An art centre and a library designed by ZAO/standardarchitecture in a converted hutong in Beijing. Micro-Yuan’er is the name of the project ZAO/standardarchitecture implemented in the Cha'er Hutong, without betraying its historic architecture.

02-06-2015

Residence for Antonis and Andri

This project in Pafos, Cyprus by the architects of Vardas Studio is a composition in wood, glass and concrete. The building follows the slope of the hills down to the sea, creating the impression it is resting on the ground: the architects say it could not have been built any other way.