Tag Squares

13-12-2017

OBR and the Piazza del Vento in Genoa

Genoa, aka "la Superba" (the proud city) has a new urban attraction designed by the architectural firm OBR.

05-12-2017

NIERIKA - Boa Mistura combines street art and tradition in Guadalajara, Mexico

The Spanish art collective Boa Mistura has completed a street artwork in Guadalajara, Mexico, where local traditions merge with the desire to redeem a deprived neighbourhood and give it back a revamped public square.

04-08-2017

Kito Fujito - Playground Equipment

For years, Japanese photographer Kito Fujio has been working on his photographic experimentation in playgrounds. He snaps his shots at night, when nobody is around, and his style reveals an almost sinister side to these places. Japan-based Kito Fujio quit his day job 12 years ago to venture into the creative world and focus full time on his true passion - photography. He has made his name in Japan and in the rest of the world thanks to his photographic exploration of rarely seen places, like supermarket rooftops where parents can “park” their children for fun and games, while they go shopping. More recently, Kito Fujio has been attracted by the concrete equipment that populates playgrounds in Japan. These are giant-sized coloured sculptures where kids can climb, hide, slide and generally have fun. And they mainly take the form of animals known to the children - pandas, whales and dinosaurs - but also robots, abstract shapes and even familiar but superseded things like push button landline phones. Kito Fujio's technique is to sneak inside the playgrounds at night, light up the equipment from the inside and photograph each one as an isolated image, giving them an otherworldly appearance. Nothing at all like the conventional image of a children's playground. Actually, what we encounter in Fujio's photos is a world where the hour and his distinctive perspective evoke Japanese cartoons, almost a manga atmosphere - the superhero is the only thing missing to complete the picture. With “Playground Equipment”, Kito Fujio gives us a visual narrative that highlights the artistic side of this playground equipment, bringing them close to the concrete artworks by the American artist with Japanese origins, Isamo Noguchi. Noguchi, precursor of land art, crafted similar structures with his “playscapes” project way back in the 1930s, and these can still be seen in Sapporo, Japan and in the United States. So, Kito Fujio's photographic experimentation becomes a way to discover the art in our everyday lives, while his technique is like a magnified close-up that revives in all of us that classic idea of mystery-filled playgrounds crafted by the inventive imagination of kids. @chrisbuerklein Kito Fujio http://fujio-panda.com/

13-04-2017

Lo Scrigno del Cielo installation by Gambardellarchitetti

A new point of view, an invitation to discover the sky over Milan through an installation of metal and light designed by studio Gambardellarchitetti for Milano Design Week 2017.

29-11-2016

Robert Konieczny – KWK Promes National Museum Szczecin World Building of the Year 2016

Przełomy National Museum and Dialogue Centre in Szczecin, Poland, designed by architect Robert Konieczny + KWK Promes, was proclaimed World Building of the Year 2016 at the World Architecture Festival in Berlin November 16 through 18, 2016.

04-03-2016

Alvisi Kirimoto and Renzo Piano's Piazza Faber has been completed

This summer will see the inauguration of an installation designed by Alvisi Kirimoto + Partners with Renzo Piano for Piazza Faber in Tempio Pausania, the square named after well-known Italian singer and songwriter Fabrizio De André.

28-10-2015

Urban Spa: a PKMN workshop with students in Chihuahua

Urban Spa is the winner of the Next Landmark 2015 contest, in the Landmark of the Year category. The project was created from a workshop by the PKMN studio with students from ISAD,Chihuahua (Mexico). A landmark to re-appropriate Parque Urueta by the people.

14-10-2015

Mateo Arquitectura: Castelo Branco Arts Centre, Portugal

The Castelo Branco Arts Centre in Portugal is the last building in the project by Mateo Arquitectura to redevelop Praça Largo da Devesa as a new town centre.