Tag Le Corbusier

22-07-2016

Marseilles and the waterfront: urban conversion strategies.

A pedestrian itinerary starting out in the centre of Marseilles, beginning with Norman Foster’s mirror pavilion, and taking us to the outskirts of the city to see Zaha Hadid’s skyscraper. A walk along the city’s converted waterfront, a wide-ranging urban project including buildings and public spaces.

06-05-2016

Mesura designs Casa IV in the countryside of Elche (Spain)

Near the town of Elche, in the countryside overlooking Spain’s Costa Blanca, Mesura has designed Casa IV: an annex for an existing single-storey home in the centre of a garden, located in a setting without any particular attractions. Mesura has designed Casa IV as a boundary made of glass and brick.

29-03-2016

Ultra Ariostea: big porcelain stoneware slabs like onyx and metal

The building is the focus of design in Ariostea's Ultra large slab collections, marking a turning point for high-tech porcelain surfaces: large size and reduced thickness for fascinating contemporary floor and wall coverings and furnishing accessories

13-01-2016

Konieczny – KWK Promes and the Living-garden house, Poland

The Living-garden house in Katowice, Poland, is the first project by Robert Konieczny – KWK Promes to focus on the theme of integration of dwelling-place and nature. Robert Konieczny studies the co-penetration of greenery into the home as a key element in residential architecture.

07-10-2015

Comics in architecture, architecture in comics.

The exhibition titled “Arkitekturstriper: Architecture in comic-strip form” at the Nasjonalmuseet in Oslo covers a theme that is more topical than ever - communicating architecture.

05-10-2015

Zaha Hadid winds the RIBA 2016 Royal Gold Medal

Architect Zaha Hadid will be the first woman to receive the Royal Gold Medal, the prestigious prize awarded by RIBA to architects “whose work has promoted either directly or indirectly the advancement of architecture".

18-02-2015

SpazioFMG Italia per Interni Manifesto #2 exhibition

SpazioFMGperl'Architettura, the gallery in Milan operated by the Iris Group, hosts the "Italia per Interni Manifesto" exhibition starting on February 19. The designers invited to participate in the second edition are Labics/Maria Claudia Clemente and Francesco Isidori, architect Davide Fabio Colaci, Luciano Giorgi/lgb architetti and Navone Associati. The exhibition will also include a new selection of images of Le Corbusier’s Cabanon photographed by Paolo Rosselli.

06-02-2015

Hélène Binet: Fragments of Light exhibition - Woodbury University Hollywood Gallery

The Julius Shulman Institute and Woodbury University present an exhibition of the work of famous architecture photographer Hélène Binet, winner of the Julius Shulman Institute Excellence in Photography Award.