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20-10-2021

Eco-social artist Luca Gnizio at the Italian Pavilion for Expo 2020 Dubai

Italian eco-social artist Luca Gnizio is one of the ten outstanding individuals selected to represent Italy for a series of ‘Success Stories’ on ecology, beauty and reuse as part of the Italian Pavilion at Expo Dubai. For over ten years, the artist and designer has been transforming waste into an ecological and social opportunity rooted in the principle of the three Rs - Reduce, Reuse, Recycle - offering a new lease of life to old materials.

18-10-2021

Prodesi/Domesi designs small cottage inspired by a ship cabin

The latest project by the Czech architectural firm Prodesi/Domesi is a small holiday home inspired by a ship cabin. A cottage engaged in an intense dialogue with the nature of the artificial lake on whose shore it stands and characterised by a marked materiality projected by the careful attention to the surrounding environmental context.

15-10-2021

SET Architects, how to rethink a small flexible home

The Italian SET Architects studio has completed the renovation of a small apartment for a graphic designer in the heart of Rome’s Testaccio district. A carefully conceived project, on minimal but flexible spaces, which enhances the pre-existing elements with a new formal vocabulary.

13-10-2021

The Sun Machine is Coming Down Event at the ICC Berlin

Thanks to an event, The Sun Machine is Coming Down, the International Congress Centrum Berlin (ICC), which has been closed for several years, is brought back to the centre of public interest with performances, art, music, films and installations. The Berliner Festspiele's 70th anniversary initiative runs from 7 to 17 October and provides an opportunity to explore the architectural icon, the fate of which is still uncertain.

07-10-2021

llLab. studio renovates Brickyard Retreat

Using local history to revitalise the region, not once, but twice. LLLab.'s project concerns a former tile factory near Beijing. The industrial building that had already been restored in 2010 as a hotel has now undergone a new makeover, boosting job opportunities and social development in the area.

01-10-2021

Gonzalez Haase AAS architecture firm designs Aera, a bakery in Berlin-Mitte, in Germany

The Berlin-based Gonzalez Haase AAS architecture firm has designed the second location of Aera, a bakery specialising in gluten-free products that also includes a café area. All in an intense lapis lazuli blue, overlooking the central Rosenthaler Platz square in Berlin.

30-09-2021

Suning Zhongshan Golf Resort, a CCD renovation in Nanjing

Cheng Chung Design, CCD, in Nanjing, has renovated China's first Golf Hotel, dating back to 1929. For the Suning Zhongshan Golf Resort, CCD has seamlessly linked the past and the future, emphasising the charm of the ancient Chinese capital through the new language characteristic of contemporary design.

29-09-2021

Transformation in San Francisco by Buttrick Projects Architecture+Design

The Oakland-based Buttrick Projects Architecture+Design firm has designed the transformation of a multi-residential structure in San Francisco, known as the Filbert Cottages. The pre-existing structures dating back to the busy construction period that followed the devastating 1906 earthquake, have been recovered with technically updated and contemporary details and architectural elements.

20-09-2021

Sustainable transformation, D525 Barcelona designed by Sanzpont Arquitectura

D525 Barcelona is an office building located in Barcelona, the result of the conversion of a condominium dating back to the 1970s. The project was designed by Sanzpont Arquitectura, with the aim of reducing the environmental impact of the architectural gesture thanks to a sustainable renovation of the existing structure.