Little&Beautiful: A CHINESE LIBRARY!!

A little library near Beijng ...

Built using iron and wood ...

Looking for simplicity and harmony with the environment ...

A nest of peace and culture! (and true architecture...)

Project by Li Xiaodong Atelier

Photos by Li Xiaodong Atelier

H&M: A GRANARY!

H&M: History and Modernity live together in harmony.

This side of a refurbished granary, becomed a directional building, is conceived like a cubic picture.

Great balance of surfaces, forms, colors and materials. 

Above all, great sensitivity between history and modernity...

Project by Pollard Thomas Edward architect

photos: Tim Crocker 

FARMHOUSE MIRROR-BED: MARCO PONCELLINI!

In the Imperia hinterland, in Italy, the bedrooms of a restructured farmhouse are caracterized by an original use of wood, metal and terracotta.

The result is an unexpected sensation of lightness...

Project by Marco Poncellini, with the collaboration of  Impresa Papone

Photos by Marco Poncellini

WONDE(R)SIGN: NUAGE!

Elica is an italian company, that produce high quality design hoods.

Nuage is a wall-mounted cooking hood, but indeed it's something more....

In fact it's a dynamic event along the surface of the wall, a refined and elegant gesture , innovative in the kitchen conception design. 
The skin of the wall surface opens itself to receive an  integrated plastic movement. 

It's seeming to grow out from the wall.

The result is obtained by a board that you can ultimate with water-based paint, cement, metal pannel, allowing you to create exciting material effects.

Designed by Fabrizio Crisà
Product by Elica s.p.a.
Photos by Elica s.p.a.

ECO-ARCHI: SMOG FREE TOWER

The dutch designer Daan Roosegaarde, with a crowdfunding initiative,  has realized the first air-cleaner urban tower.

It's high 7 metres, and can purify 3000 cubic meters of air per hour.

The collected particulate is embedded in resin and mounted on rings, given to lenders of the crowdfunding initiative.

Fantastic: Design + Ecology + Social all together!

Designed by Daan Roosegaarde

Photos by Daan Roosegaarde

AMAZING ITALY: VALADIER A GENGA

The Temple of the Valadier is a peculiar church located at Genga, Marche, near the Frasassi Waterfalls.

 Pope Leo XII ordered the construction, in 1828, on the basis of a draft drawn up by the architect Giuseppe Valadier. 

The church, built according to a plan in the shape of an octagon, has a domed roof covered with lead plates and is perfectly inserted in a cave . 

It was built in travertine, proceeds from a quarry that is located upstream.

ARCHITECTURAL CARAPACES OF LIGHT: GEHRY A PARIS!

In 2006 Frank Gehry realized this building for Louis Vuitton Foundation in Paris.

Every his  project is always an amazing surprise, born during an hard but immaginative intellectual route. 

Transparent canvas and carapaces covers the structure of the museum, creating spaces where the light is the first architectural element.


Frank Gehry is probably the greatest living architect ...

Project by Frank Gehry
Photos by Foundation Louis Vuitton

Escher Today: DESPRESSO!

 In Madison Avenue, N.Y. City, a  rigorous but amusing cofee-breack architecture.

What's the right side?

Project by Nemaworkshop
Photos by Nemaworkshop

Nova vida in a corda: CICLOTRAMA !!!

Janaina Mello and Daniele Francesco Landini are two young artists that lives and works in São Paulo (Brasil).

Their art gives a new life at ropes of sisal, a destructured organic harmony.

Created by Janaina Mello and Daniele Francesco Landini

Photos by Gui Gomes

A Light Dancer: ETOILE !!

This  italian lamp is made from refractive layers of Lentiflex® combined with LED light sources.

Delight and charming...

Designed by Adriano Rachele

Produced by SLAMP s.p.a.

Nobody, nothing can stop Art: SYRIAN KISS !!

New life for a war-torn building in Syria

Creation by Tammam Azzam

ESCHER TODAY: GIUSSANIARCH !!!

At the interior of this building (a data center in Milan) black & white draws spaces with unexpected perspectives.

Project by Giussaniarch

Photos by Andrea Martiradonna

ESCHER TODAY: FRANCESCO LIBRIZZI !!

Francesco Librizzi is a sicilian architect , able to work along the edgeline that separates traditions and innovation, light and shadow, colour and sign

Project by Francesco Librizzi
Photos by Alberto Moncada

Painting on the New York channels' walls: HULA'S WOMEN !!

Created by HULA ( http://www.hulaaa.com )

Iceland electricity pylon: LAND OF GIANTS !!

Project by Choi+Shine

Fluo-temporary architecture in London: SERPENTINE GALLERY !!!

an amorphous, double-skinned, polygonal structure inspired by organic marine forms

Project by studio SelgasCano

Photos by Iwan Baan