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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.

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.

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

23-03-2018

Blow-up prints on glass for MVRDV’s Glass Farm

MVRDV built a covered market of glass and steel printed with photographs of the old building standing on the site in Schijndel, in the Netherlands

23-03-2018

A gym in its context, by Agence ENGASSER & associés

The creation of a new gym in a high school in Metz (France) made it necessary for the architects of Agence ENGASSER & associés to carry out a careful study of its location, between a canal, a motorway and a number of existing buildings.

21-03-2018

Swiss Re Next

Swiss Re Next is the name of the new open space offices of the Zurich-based insurance company. Diener & Diener’s Swiss Re Next building, with its undulating glass continuous façade, was built on the site of the company’s old headquarters, constructed in the ’60s by architect Werner Stücheli, now demolished.

08-03-2018

Dieterdietz Shared spaces in the rural landscape of Chigny

Architectural practice Dieterdietz came up with plans for the renovation and expansion of a home in the evocative setting of the Swiss rural landscape of Chigny.

28-02-2018

Dominique Coulon & associés Human Rights Sports Centre Strasbourg

The name of the sports centre recently designed and built by Dominique Coulon & associés is a direct reference to Strasbourg’s role as home to the European Parliament and the European Court of Human Rights.