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23-03-2015

Architect and designer Michael Graves dies

Michael Graves, the famous American architect who designed not only buildings but everyday objects such as one of Alessi’s most famous kettles, number 9093, with the bird that sings when the water boils, has died.

20-03-2015

Exhibition: Poetry of the Metropolis. The Affichistes

The SCHIRN Kunsthalle in Frankfurt, Germany is presenting the exhibition “Poetry of the Metropolis.

18-03-2015

House VDV by Graux & Baeyens, a contemporary Flemish farmhouse

In their study of the roots of the contemporary home, Graux & Baeyens architecten offer their own interpretation of a traditional Flemish farmhouse in House VDV in Destelbergen, Belgium. In House VDV Graux & Baeyens do away with the dormers and skylights and redesign the rectangular volume to create a zig-zag shape embracing the greenery around it.

09-03-2015

Italian interiors: the best of the week

The recent exhibition focusing on interiors opened at SpazioFMG, Iris Ceramica and FMG Fabbrica Marmi e Graniti’s gallery in Milan, introduces the theme of this week’s Best of Week feature: Interior design.

05-03-2015

AB House: Returning to a building in Romania

Timisoara, Romania. Architect Vlad Gaivoronski has gone back to a project he built thirteen years earlier, in response to the clients’ wish to expand the building to accommodate their children’s families.

27-02-2015

Architecture and fashion in Floornature’s best of the week

Architecture projects, interior design for retail spaces, dramatic backdrops for fashion shows: architects do a lot of work for the fashion industry, subject of this edition of Floornature’s best of the week.

25-02-2015

David Baena and Toni Casamor win the Premio Ciutat de Barcelona d'Arquitectura

David Baena and Toni Casamor, founders of BCQ Arquitectura Barcelona, have won the Premi Ciutat de Barcelona d'Arquitectura i Urbanisme 2015 (the 2015 award of the city of Barcelona for Architecture and Urban Planning) for Sant Gervasi-Joan Maragall Library.

23-02-2015

Archimode 6 architectures at Villa Noailles

Villa Noailles in Hyères hosts an exhibition entitled Archimode 6 architectures pour la mode (6 architectures for fashion), in search of analogies between famous stylists’ creations and buildings designed by: Zaha Hadid, Rem Koolhaas, Christian de Portzamparc, Ciguë, Diplomates.