Mese: settembre 2017

song kang carves magical architectural landscapes in stone the mixed media pieces are constructed using foam, plaster and paper maché, yet appear to be carved into actual rocks

https://www.song-kang.com/carved-in-stone/

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by paolo rinaldi, rinaldi.paolo@fastwebnet.it, 0039.3483577940

isfahan, iran, may 2017 (ph annamaria arnesano)

viaggi/travels

left, villa durazzo, santa margherita ligure

right, palazzo di varignana

http://www.grandigiardini.it/

architettura/architecture

sanaa has built a small passenger terminal shaped like a cloud for a port on the japanese island of naoshima, which is famed for its contemporary art scene

http://www.sanaa.co.jp/

richard woods completes his latest project, ‘holiday homes,’ as part of the 2017 folkestone triennial. for this public installation, woods has created and placed six colorful homes around folkestone, a port town in south-east england

http://www.richardwoodsstudio.com/

the national trust's little moreton hall, cheshire, an iconic tudor manor house

https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/little-moreton-hall

interiors

mode:lina architekci have completed a new office in wroclaw, poland, for droids on roids, a tech company. the design of the office takes inspiration from their logo, and throughout the space there’s references to the color and the lightning bolt. ph patryk lewinski

http://www.modelina-architekci.com/

ukrainian designer alesya kasianenko has created a concept idea for a bedroom that includes building the bed into a wall lined with cabinets

https://www.behance.net/alesya5enot

children's rooms can be designed to encourage play, even in the most minimal of homes. a room that divides territories for two brothers and a room with secret storage for toys

installazioni

claude cormier transforms a montréal street into a colorful pedestrian promenade. the artwork's 1 kilometer span is made up of 180,000 resin-colored balls organized in a sequence of 18 tones

http://www.claudecormier.com/

jean-michel othoniel stacks 10,000 black glass bricks to build 'the big wave' a monumental 6-meter-high, 15-meter-long wave towers over visitors to the exhibition space

http://www.othoniel.fr/

as part of mexico city’s four-day architecture festival, mextropoli, 5468796 architecture, factor eficiencia and studio nyl collaborated to design and create a public art pavilion called ‘one bucket at a time’. ph jaime navarro

http://www.5468796.ca/, http://factoreficiencia.com/

http://www.studionyl.com/

musei/museums

dongzhuang museum of western regions, xinjiang wind architectural design & research institute, xinjiang weiwuerzizhiqu, china. ph yao li

hotels/restaurants/bars

american firm un.box studio has transformed historic structures in austin into a high-design hostel that is meant to serve as an alternative to pricey boutique hotels. located near the city's downtown district, the native hostel and bar & kitchen occupy a two-storey stone building dating to the 1890s and a brick warehouse that was added in the 1940s

http://www.un-boxstudio.com/

architecture firm lycs have recently completed the interior renovation of the mylines hotel in hangzhou, china, and as part of the project, they designed a futuristic room that has the bed sunken down into the floor

http://lycs-arc.com/Home_EN

situated next to the volcanoes national park in the east african country of rwanda, ‘bisate lodge’ offers a luxurious base from which to enjoy the region’s gorilla conservation experience. the resort comprises six individual villas, designed by nicholas plewman architects and associates, that each measure 91 square meters. articulated around a central fireplace

http://plewmanarchitects.co.za/

design

giulia pesce and ruggero bastita's create an inclusive furniture series for cohabitation spaces, 'patchwork' is a project that analyzes the european immigration and refugee crisis that has hit europe in the past couple of years, encouraging cohabitation

https://www.made.com/talentlab/user/766993/profile/

the tassels and straps of spanking tools and fetish wear inspired this mirror and valet stand, designed by ecal graduate savvas laz. laz created the boudoir fétiche furniture while studying on the design for luxury and craftsmanship masters course at the swiss university

http://www.ecal.ch/fr/100/homepage, http://www.savvaslaz.com/

a sofa shaped like a hot dog and a burger-like chair are among studio job's latest designs for the brand seletti. the food-themed pieces are part of studio job's un_limited editions collection

https://www.studiojob.be/, https://www.seletti.it/

http://www.bitossiceramiche.it/bitossi/

“tinge” is a mix and match table series that invites you to combine your favourite shapes and colours into a unique table. the prototypes are produced from left-overs of the plastics industry by no man tai

http://www.momantai-design.com

luci/lumières

paper-torch

nendo transforms electronic paper to rollable and adjustable flashlight

http://www.nendo.jp/en/news/

with names like back flip, double act, flatbar and forward bend, it’s easy to see where design studio porcelain bear got their inspiration for their new lighting collection

http://www.porcelainbear.com/

mostre/exhibitions

paolo ventura, ex voto, galleria antonio verolino, modena, italy

http://www.galleriaantonioverolino.com

arrivano i paparazzi, fotografi e divi dalla dolce vita a oggi, camera, centro italiano per la fotografia, torino, italy

http://www.camera.to, camera@camera.to

il bel paese, un progetto per 22.621 centri storici, triennale, milano

press@triennale.org  

events

international mountain summit, incontri e show multimediali di gente straordinaria di montagna. alpinismo ma non solo: congressi e discussioni relative alla medicina di montagna, all’uso del legno in architettura, alla sicurezza in montagna, alla tecnologia usata (anche in montagna) dalla protezione civile

https://www.ims.bz/it/

art

ad perpetuam rei memoriam, wall painting di eron per mutina 2017, modena

http://www.eron.it/HOME.html

http://www.museicivicimodena.it, http://www.mutinasplendidissima.it

mural spagna by luca zamoc

http://www.lucazamoc.com/

et caetera

exploring the relationship between art and automobile, la’s venus gallery presents ‘piston head II’, an exhibition spotlighting the ways in which a car can be both a cultural icon and sculptural object

http://venusovermanhattan.com/

a.bran transforms abandoned house in lithuania with colorful graffiti. the artist's playful drawings bring sunshine and positive messages to a white backdrop

http://abran.lt/

uno scenario da  film di fantascienza proposto dall’architetto tedesco goetz schrader. perché non sfruttare lo spazio inutilizzato dei supporti verticali delle grandi turbine eoliche delle fattorie del vento (wind farm)? il suo concept wind pecker prevede una serie di strutture modulari residenziali agganciate sulle torri d’acciaio di supporto delle turbine. fonte futurix

http://www.goetz-schrader.com/

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by paolo rinaldi, rinaldi.paolo@fastwebnet.it, 0039.3483577940

isfahan, iran, may 2017 (ph annamaria arnesano)

viaggi/travels

gossglochner, hochalpenstrasse, austria

http://www.austria.info

architettura/architecture

bjarke ingels group is set to build a pair of residential towers in copenhagen as part of a new development that also includes an ikeastore and a huge hotel. the site, which is being masterplanned by fellow danish firm dorte mandrup arkitekter, is located in kalvebod brygge – a waterfront area in the vesterbro district of the capital city

http://www.big.dk/, https://www.dortemandrup.dk/

more than half of iran has an arid climate and environment, each year expanding more and more. iranian based office bmdesign offers a double solution to this matter. part of it is to combat global warming and reduce the overall carbon footprint, while another part is to pursue other sustainable water resources like rainwater

http://www.bmdesignstudios.com/about

installazioni

textile designer yuri himuro showcases her solo suspended ‘flower’ exhibition at the case gallery in tokyo. the exhibition focuses on a handkerchief/bouquet motif which she designed for the japanese handkerchief brand ‘swimmie’. hundreds of hanging handkerchief bouquets fill the interior space and create a dreamy special experience

http://www.h-m-r.net/

musei/museums

vizcaya museum and garden, miami, usa

http://vizcaya.org/

hotels/restaurants/bars

w bellevue, bellevue, wa, united states, "where green meets global glamour. where rugged and relaxed are reimagined and redefined. inspired by yesterday’s weekender lake house"

http://www.wbellevue.com/

unit café, kiev ukraine, architects tseh architectural group, ph mihail cherny, evgen zukovsky

https://tseh.com.ua/

design

h2o, waterproof wallpaper, tecnografica italian wallcovering, per ambienti ad alto tasso di umidità

http://www.tecnografica.net/

promenade by philippe nigro for gebrueder thonet vienna

http://www.gebruederthonetvienna.com/

left, sedia e tavolino industry, italcomma urbinati

http://www.italcomma.it

right, arch chair by martin hirth for favius

http://www.favius.de, http://www.martinhirth.com

low chair asana by mario milana

http://www.mariomilana.com/

konstantin grcic for mattiazzi

http://konstantin-grcic.com/, http://www.mattiazzi.eu/#skip

shops

wutopia lab finalizes its construction of the zhongshu bookstore in suzhou, china. the bookstore is divided into four main areas and several subdivided zones: the sanctuary of crystal for new arrivals, the cave of fireflies for recommendations, the xanadu of rainbows for reading room and the castle of innocence for children books. ph hu yijie, creatar

https://www.facebook.com/WUtopia-Lab-1475649005793149/

tappeti/rugs

left, cc-tapis, "répertoire de formes", at spotti milano, by christophe delcourt

http://www.cc-tapis.com/, http://www.spotti.com/

right, ines is designed by kasthall’s designer maja johansson

http://www.kasthall.com/

garden layers, gan's first outdoor space, designed by patricia urquiola

https://www.gan-rugs.com/es/productos/espacios/

luci/lumières

this floating cloud lamp magnetically levitates and pulses as music plays. brooklyn-based richard clarkson studio joined forces with magnetic levitation specialists crealev to create ‘floating cloud’, a light design feature for the home. a hidden switch is located at the top of the cloud

https://www.richardclarkson.com/

the danish design brand rewired launches a new glass pendant series, designed by oojaa arhus

tsv@rewired.dk

mostre/exhibitions

left, vittorio zecchin, i vetri traparenti per cappellin e venini, le stanze del vetro, fondazione giorgio cini, isola di san giorgio maggiore, venezia

http://www.lestanzedelvetro.org, http://www.cini.it

right, oh couleurs ! le design au prisme de la couleur
au musée des arts décoratifs et du design de bordeaux

http://www.lesartsdecoratifs.fr/

art

created by raku inoue, ‘natura insects’ is an art series where a wildlife of lifelike beetles, butterflies and other bugs have been crafted from bright flower arrangements

http://www.rakuinoue.com/

et caetera

una videosorveglianza all’ennesima potenza prevede l’installazione di un miliardo di telecamere all’orizzonte 2020, e 30 miliardi d’immagini al secondo, gestite dall’intelligenza artificiale. presentato dalla statunitense nvidia all’isc west di las vegas

http://www.iscwest.com/en/Exhibitors/2405495/NVIDIA

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by paolo rinaldi, rinaldi.paolo@fastwebnet.it, 0039.3483577940

isfahan, iran, may 2017 (ph annamaria arnesano)

viaggi/travels

malga pramosio, carnia, italy

https://www.carnia.it/it/

architettura/architecture

in the southern french city of arles, a frank gehry-designed tower is rising above an experimental contemporary art center. led by swiss collector maja hoffmann, luma arles will occupy a former rail depot with a campus designed to showcase some of the art world’s biggest names. gehry’s tower evokes the form of the region’s rugged mountain ranges. ph victor picon

https://www.foga.com/, http://www.arlestourisme.com/it/

an "obese house" by austrian sculptor erwin wurm has been installed on the lawn outside an 18th-century palace in vienna. wurm first created the fat house in 2003, as a commentary on middle-class consumer culture. it is now on show outside the upper belvedere, one of vienna's most important examples of baroque architecture

http://www.erwinwurm.at/artworks.html, http://www.austria.info

installazioni

in borders sculpture park, a new venue for contemporary sculpture set within the grounds of scotland’s picturesque mellerstain house, environmental artist steve messam has installed a trio of large-scale, inflatable artworks that engage with the landscape

http://www.stevemessam.co.uk/

art

apre cascina maria, nuovo concept-space in provincia di novara ideato da nicoletta rusconi

http://www.nicolettarusconi.com/farmhouse.html

hotels/restaurants/bars

lycs ‘mylines westlake’ is an interior renovation project for an existing building located in hangzhou, china. the design expands from the conventional emphasis of a themed hotel, redefining the stereotypical concept of a ‘lovers hotel’ with a new spatial experience. the rooms, from top clockwise: narcossism, sadism, romance

http://lycs-arc.com/Home_CN

intercity hotel, project matteo thun & partners, braunschweig, duisburg, frankfurt, hamburg, hannover, budapest, ph hiepler, brunier

http://www.matteothun.com/project/489/city-hotel-intercityhotel

italian studio diorama has transformed an old grocery store in puglia into a bar and restaurant complete with tropical plants, flamingo wallpaper and neon palm trees. bloom in town is located in the southern italian coastal town of molfetta

http://dioramatelier.com/About-1

design

left, buzzifloat chair collection by alain gilles for buzzispace

http://www.alaingilles.com/en, http://buzzi.space/

right, faux mirror collection by alain gilles for deknudt mirrors

http://www.alaingilles.com/en, https://www.deknudtmirrors.com/en-us/

left, yvonne bistrot chairs by yuzuro yamakawa for yamakawa. ph f.ferrari

http://yamakawa-rattan.com/

right, sistema di tavolini flow bowl by nendo for alias

http://www.nendo.jp/en/, http://alias.design/it/

tavolo origami con piano in vetro fumé bisellato by natisa

https://www.natisa.it/

from top left, clockwise

lounge chair celine by jader almeida for sollos

http://www.jaderalmeida.com/, http://www.sollos.ind.br/

chair by croatian studio regular company, a multidisciplinary studio that works across the fields of products, interiors, branding and digital design. founded in 2015 by ruder novak-mikulic, marija ruzic vukmanic, marinko murgi and tihomir filipec

http://www.regular.company/

jin kuramoto's light, strong and biodegradable chair for offecct, made of flax fiber

http://www.jinkuramoto.com/, https://www.offecct.se/

luca nichetto has created a chair intended to resemble to bow of a boat

http://nichettostudio.com/

left and center, halikko stool and siro, bar stool, finnish design

https://www.finnishdesignshop.it/

miguel and gonzalo milá craft organic rattan furniture for expormim

http://www.expormim.com/, http://www.expormim.com/it/1265/miguel-mila–gonzalo-mil%c3.html

una stanza tutta per sé. cristina celestino. cantiere galli design, roma

http://cristinacelestino.com/, http://www.edilmostragalli.it/cantiere-galli-design/

shops

lovi apre un pop-up shop nel centro storico di stoccolma, parte del negozio happy sthlms su stora nygatan in gamla stan

https://www.lovi.fi/fi/, https://www.shop.happysthlm.se/

carwan gallery beirut

http://carwangallery.com/shows.php

luci/lumières

gio tirotto designed oblio as a crossover piece that falls somewhere in between art and design. the fixture, created for secondome gallery, has an arched brace that holds a mirrored disk with an embedded led light around its perimeter

http://www.giotirotto.it/, http://www.secondome.biz/

design studio mentsen designed the cluster lamp series rigatoni for hand & eye studio with vertical ridges down the sides that mimic similar indentions on the tube-shaped pasta of the same name

https://mentsen.co.uk/, http://handandeyestudio.co.uk/

pilke plywood lamp family consists of five pendant lamps

http://showroomfinland.fi/lights/

mostre/exhibitions

davide mosconi, moda, arte, pubblicità at galleria milano, milano, italy

http://www.galleriamilano.com/

tellas at magma gallery at artverona 2017

http://www.magma.gallery/it/galleria-arte-bologna

http://www.artverona.it/

body ornaments

gioielli di carta di ana hagopian da fabriano boutique

https://www.fabrianoboutique.it/, http://www.anahagopian.com/

et caetera

iftach gazit’s ready meals for the homeless can be cooked at the laundrette influenced by sous vide cooking, gazit's ready meals are enclosed in a waterproof tyvek vacuum bag and can be made in a washing machine with your laundry

italo calvino’s 1972 novel reserves a dear place in our libraries, architectural or otherwise, for its vivid recollections of cities and their curiosities, courtesy of a certain marco polo as he narrates to kublai khan. for though there is a certain kind of sensory appeal that is captured in the details of places, the real beauty of invisible cities lies in the masking of underlying notions of time, identity and language within these details. image © karina puente frantzen

from top, clockwise: eufemia, zaira, zoe, tamara

Invisible Cities

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by paolo rinaldi, rinaldi.paolo@fastwebnet.it, 0039.3483577940

isfahan, iran, may 2017 (ph annamaria arnesano)

viaggi/travels

lago di bled, bled lake, slovenia

http://www.slovenia.info

architettura/architecture

a courtyard in bawa's campus for the university of ruhuna. geoffrey manning bawa friba, (july 23, 1919 – may 27, 2003), explored modernism and its cultural implications and created a unique, recognizable style of design which had a lasting impact on architects across the world. well versed in modernist theory, bawa was one of the original proponents of tropical modernism. ph harry sowden

http://www.geoffreybawa.com/

teletón infant oncology clinic, project sordo madaleno arquitectos, querétaro, mexico. ph jaime navarro, paúl czitrom

http://www.sordomadaleno.com/

three intersecting glass corridors sweep outwards from a sunken, triangular-shaped visitors centre designed by studio maks and junya ishigami associates for park vijversburg in the netherlands

http://www.studiomaks.nl/, http://www.jnyi.jp/

interiors

project reinach mendonça arquitetos associados, rio de janeiro, brazil. ph leonardo finotti

http://www.rmaa.com.br/

installazioni

as part of the new pembroke pines city center that includes a public plaza, a 3,500 seat performing arts hall, the city hall and the frank art gallery for the city of pembroke pines, the brooks scarpa architects designed the gateway sculpture and attending landscape features to complement these activities and programs

info@brooksscarpa.com

hotels/restaurants/bars

japanese architect kengo kuma has completed the façade and interior design of a 10-storey hotel near tokyo’s skytree observation tower. conceived as an ‘art exhibit’, one@tokyo is located in oshiage — an area which combines the historic feeling of the country’s edo era with a lively sense of tokyo’s modern metropolis. at ground level, kuma and his team have installed a dynamic lattice of timber planks that refers to the factories found in the region’s downtown district. ph keishin horikoshi/ss tokyo

http://kkaa.co.jp/

chief architect sun tianwen of shanghai hip-pop architectural decoration design co. captures the spirit of japanese cuisine in his latest waka haiku setsugekka restaurant project. he explains that, individually, the ultra-clear glass engraved with the sakura, the blue led light band and complete black background of sushi counter do not necessarily express the sense of zen — however, only when all of these elements mix harmoniously, then an appropriate design is obtained. ph zhang jing

http://www.hippop-sh.cn/

david rockwell’s collaboration with chef nobu matsuhisa began with one small restaurant in manhattan’s tribeca neighbourhood. twenty-three years later, nobu tribeca has been closed to make way for a new flagship – nobu downtown – set in a landmark building in the financial district

http://www.rockwellgroup.com/

design

nau design is a new brand launched at denfair in melbourne, hoping to start a "new australian design movement" with its furniture and lighting by local designers. nau has collaborated with adam cornish, adam goodrum, gavin harris and jack flanagan

http://www.naudesign.com.au/

lebanese native camille kachani develops an inventive collection of furniture relating to nature’s transformation process

http://camillekachani.com.br/

artist ronit baranga creates ceramic sculptural works she describes as existing on the “border between living and still life”—objects guaranteed to either tickle your funny bone or haunt your worst nightmares, depending on your perspective. the pieces are both silly and sinister as they come to life as if from a cartoon

http://www.ronitbaranga.com/

pouf couture by lorenza bozzoli, at luisa via roma home

http://www.lorenzabozzoli.com/, https://www.luisaviaroma.com/

 antonella maione e mauro cazzaro, kanz architetti

http://www.kanzarchitetti.com/

shops

located on the edge of blue harbor’s underground square, the second ‘lily nails’ completed by archstudio is in an irregularly shaped and elongated beauty salon in beijing. the project is aimed at extending two dimensional floral patterns into three dimensional spaces, creating a flexible environment. ph jin weiqi

http://www.archstudio.cn/

moda/fashion

parizaad, rahul mishra, couture 2017

http://www.rahulmishra.in/contact-us.php

luci/lumières

irish artist niamh barry has designed a collection of  limited edition light sculptures that play with creatively with various shapes

http://www.niamhbarry.com/

books

riccardo agnello, mondello ieri e oggi, dario flaccovio editore

http://www.riccardoagnello.com/, https://www.darioflaccovio.it/

art

prosegue fino al 30 settembre la prima edizione di standart, triennale armena d’arte contemporanea

http://www.standart-armeniatriennale.net

“pipe brothers”: in mostra in arizona i tubi di scarico fognario intagliati e dipinti da james e tom franco, at asu art museum ceramics research center. ph deanna dent asu now

https://asuartmuseum.asu.edu/visit/ceramics-research-center

shio kusaka and jonas wood at musem voorlinden, the netherlands

 http://www.voorlinden.nl

et caetera

berlin-based art collective raubdruckerin (which translates to pirate printer) uses elements of urban design to create guerilla printing presses, adding ink to manhole covers, grates, and street tiles to create utilitarian designs on t-shirts and bags. the experimental print makers view the works as footprints of a particular city, with current designs collected from amsterdam, athens, paris, lisbon and their hometown of berlin

https://raubdruckerin.de/