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from the berlinale, the winner

jafar panahi, taxi

https://www.berlinale.de/en/HomePage.html

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by paolo rinaldi

premio chi è chi award 2014, best weekly online magazine

voyages

sakura sato, la fioritura dei ciliegi

http://www.lafabbricadeisogni.biz/

 it was in the town of arita in saga prefecture in southern japan that a high-quality porcelain mine was discovered in 1616

http://www.2016arita.com

isola di formentera, baleari

http://www.formentera.es/

architecture

michele de lucchi constructs concrete chapel in southern germany

http://www.amdl.it/

zalewski architecture group have designed a concept for a walk-on balcony that is suspended above the center courtyard of a building in gliwice, poland

http://www.zalewskiag.com/

hotels et restaurants

suite novotel den haag city centre by constance guisset

http://www.constanceguisset.com/

http://www.suitenovotel.com/

andaz hotel by zuercher arquitectos

http://www.zurcherarquitectos.com/

design

cabinet dagoberto

http://www.promemoria.com

olfattorio, design cristina celestino

new series of ampoules in blown borosilicate glass conceived in order to exalt
the sensorial properties of flowers

http://www.spaziopontaccio.it

lumières

for his three sacred buildings, le corbusier has played masterfully with orientation, openings and textures to create kinetic architecture with daylight

in his book “cosmos of light: the sacred architecture of le corbusier,” henry plummer has analysed these projects with outstanding photographs

http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/product_info.php?products_id=806910

chapeau di sheratonn è una lampada multifunzionale che può essere appoggiata sul comodino oppure appesa a parete trasformando il piede in una mensola. design il perigeo design

http://www.sheratonn.com, http://www.ilperigeo.com

taut,  lampada a sospensione by lolli e memmoli

http://www.lollimemmoli.it/it/

magasins

slobs, network di artigiani-artisti, milano

http://www.slobs.it/

pomellato/dodo ha scelto casamilano per il nuovo flagship store di parigi

http://www.pomellato.com/it/, http://www.casamilanohome.com/

livres

from left: fausta squatriti, la cana; marina wiesendanger, ancoracinqueminuti, http://www.puntoacapo-editrice.com; grandi giardini italiani, http://www.grandigiardini.it

luigi spina, l'ora incerta

http://www.electaweb.it/

urban design

diller scofidio renfro won first prize in the international competition to design zaryadye park, moscow’s first new park in 50 years. the project is a headliner in a series of high-profile schemes that aim to improve the city’s green space, including the renovation of gorky park and the recently revealed plans for the moscow river

http://www.dsrny.com/

montres

created in 1967 in the heart of swinging london, the crash watch captures the incredible energy of the city at that time. with its asymmetrical dial, it revolutionized the esthetic codes of watchmaking history

http://www.cartier.it/

photos

per non dormire, una mostra di filippo di sambuy

fondazione il vittoriale degli italiani, 1 marzo to 1 settembre

http://www.vittoriale.it/

ruin porn

"ruin porn"—photographs of decrepit, abandoned buildings—has become an internet trope so popular that behavioral scientists have investigated why we’re so obsessed with it

http://www.fastcodesign.com/explore/internet-trope

et caetera

to rent in le cinque terre, la spezia

nuchkafattori@alice.it

from the berlinale, from top left clockwise

peter greenaway, eisenstein in guanajuato; laura bispuri, vergine giurata; radu jude, aferim; wim wenders, everything will be fine

https://www.berlinale.de/en/HomePage.html

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by paolo rinaldi

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voyages

toscana, terra del buon vivere

http://www.buonviveretoscano.it

 kylemore abbey, ireland

http://www.irlandia.com

castello di duino

concorso internazionale "castello di duino" e la festa della letteratura e della poesia, dal 17 al 22 marzo

http://castellodiduino.it/index2.php

http://home.castellodiduinopoesia.org

architecture

frank gehry's new teaching and research facility for sydney's university of technology has now opened

https://www.foga.com/

anagram architects faces office building with dynamic pixelated screen

http://anagramarchitects.com/

the blanton museum of art announced that the 91-year-old artist ellsworth kelly has gifted the institution an unrealized design for a chapel first conceived for a private collector in 1986. for the past two years, kelly’s been working with the museum to finally bring the now-titled Austin chapel to pass

http://blantonmuseum.org/

the austrian architecture firm alleswirdgut redesigned the grounds of a former steel mill in Luxembourg into a city square and included this concrete tunnel of seating that is lined with wood

http://www.alleswirdgut.cc/en/homepage/

hotels et restaurants

the citizenm hotel in rotterdam, the netherlands, designed by rob wagemans and his team at concrete who created a bold slice of luxury for those “mobile citizens of the world’

http://www.concreteamsterdam.nl/

http://www.citizenm.com/destinations/rotterdam/rotterdam-hotel

‘sala ayutthaya’ by onion is a 26-room boutique hotel across the picturesque site of the old capital of thailand along the chao phraya river. built in 1353 by the first monarch of ayutthaya kingdom, phutthai sawan temple becomes the encompassing view of the restaurant and the riverfront suites. the main entry, next to a sala tree on u-thong road, is a single iron door on a long brick façade that leads occupants to the low wooden ceiling above the reception desk and the double volume art gallery

http://www.onion.co.th/

alberto caiola hides flask cocktail bar behind a coke vending machine, a speakeasy in the heart of shanghai’s former french concession

http://www.albertocaiola.com/

explora hotel in magallanes y la antàrtica chilena region, chile

http://www.germandelsol.cl/pplesobras.htm

design

sedia dolcevita by calligaris

http://www.calligaris.it/home

ari letto by emanuele garbin e mario dell'orto for flou

http://www.flou.it/it/

woodland, paravento in metallo by alessandra baldereschi for seletti

http://www.alessandrabaldereschi.com/, http://www.seletti.it/index.php

mantzalin have designed a rope screen for stix, a new mediterranean restaurant in chelsea, new york

http://design.mantzalin.com/, http://www.indigochelsea.com/dining-stix

sgabello one love in cedro by giani veneziano e luciana di virgilio per riva 1920

http://www.venezianoteam.it/it/, http://www.riva1920.it/

lumières

spanish designer javier herrero was inspired by the wild west to create tipi, a children’s lamp made from wood and embroidered felt, for manufacturer buokids

http://herrerostudio.com/, http://www.buokids.com/

liz west bathes manchester gallery in a luminous chromatic expanse. visitors to castlefield gallery’s federation house find themselves immersed in a gradient of hues that mimic a rainbow’s spectrum

http://www.liz-west.com/, http://www.castlefieldgallery.co.uk/associates/newartspaces/

art

daniel steegmann mangrané’s colorful curtains at esther schipper gallery’s booth at frieze new york

http://danielsteegmann.info/

http://www.ferrismcguinty.com/

charles pétillon erupts balloon invasions from urban landmarks

http://www.charlespetillon.com/

anish kapoor's black water vortex spins endlessly into gallery floor

http://anishkapoor.com/

exhibitions

ri-scatti: uomini e donne senza fissa dimora raccontano il loro mondo attraverso  95 scatti at pac, milano

http://www.pacmilano.it/

futur archaique at grand-hornu, until 19 avril 2015

http://www.cid-grand-hornu.be
http://www.grand-hornu.eu

emmanuel babled at galerie yves et victor gastou

http://www.babled.net/, http://www.galerieyvesgastou.com/

cabaret crusades by wael shawky solo show at moma, new york

http://momaps1.org/exhibitions/view/394

et caetera

spelling catania

https://www.facebook.com/spellincatania?utm_source=Una cosa al giorno&utm_campaign=55d614a530-Spellin_Catania1_22_2015&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_170e3ab091-55d614a530-190614257

i fratelli coen presidenti della giiuria al 68° festival di cannes

http://www.festival-cannes.com/en.html

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voyages

rio de janeiro, brazil

left, le cascate dello zambesi

http://www.tucanoviaggi.com

right, namibia

http://www.clupviaggi.it/

fusika, la pasqua etiope

http://www.africanexplorer.com/

architecture

left, sant pau hospital renovation brings art nouveau to life in barcelona. designed by catalan architect lluìs domènech i montaner

http://en.unesco.org/

right, located in the heart of austria’s styria thermal region, the rogner bad blumau is not only a luxury spa hotel, but a complete artwork, designed by the austrian architect friedensreich hundertwasser

http://www.blumau.com/

left, with the 2014 world design capital coming to a close, saota architects, antoni associates and okha interiors and design wrapped their building in bold yellow graphics, including an overlaid map of cape town, south africa and the saying “under this african sun

http://www.saota.com/, http://www.okha.com/

right,  the knarvik community church is a project by oslo-based architects reiulf ramstad arkitekter. the cutting-edge take on a typical norwegian stave church from the middle ages

http://www.reiulframstadarchitects.com/

left, the residents of this house in germany, designed by roger christ, can use one of the flat white exterior walls on the top floor, as a screen to project movies on to

http://www.christ-christ.cc/

right, when guto requena studio designed the head offices for wal-mart brazil in são paulo, they included a mini-golf course on the roof

http://www.gutorequena.com.br/site/

hotels et restaurants

a new addition to london’s small-hotel scene, artist residence brings its quirky formula of contemporary art and a warm, homey ambience to the british capital

http://artistresidencelondon.co.uk/

inaugurato a venezial’hotel l'orologio, ispirato al mondo degli orologi da collezione. in  un palazzo  affacciato sul canal grande, vicino al ponte di rialto.
fa parte del gruppo wtb hotels

http://www.whythebesthotels.com/

five design firms (C2 arquitectura, vida design studio, project CR d, garnier arquitectos, and ousia design) build rio perdido hotel near 150-foot canyon in costa rica

http://www.rioperdido.com/

masquespacio have designed the interiors and branding for the nozomi sushi bar in valencia, spain, inspired by the look of japanese villages

http://masquespacio.com/

left, emirati entrepreneurs buthaina al mazrui and alamira noor bani hashim co-founded the dinner club by no. 57, a rather unusual dining concept in which each month an unexpected location was transformed into a spectacular pop-up event space for a group of people to enjoy a meal by invitation only. in abu dhabi, designed by dubai-based studio anarchitect

http://www.anarchitect.co/

right, interior designer tommaso guerra has designed a cat cafe named romeow cat bistrot, located in rome, italy

http://www.tommasoguerra.com/, http://www.romeowcatbistrot.com/

design

ceramic by ron nagle

http://ronnagle.net/

left, nordico verace, stools by marcello panza for covo

http://www.marcellopanza.it/, http://www.covo.it/

right, inspired by the exercise ball, don chadwick designed ballo, for humanscale, to replace your old boring office chair

http://www.donchadwick.com/, http://shop.humanscale.com/index.cfm

new colors for bell table by sebastian herkner for classicon

http://www.sebastianherkner.com/, http://www.classicon.com/

left, nacho carbonell presenta su nuevo trabajo junto a maartje korstanje en el groninger museum, holanda

http://nachocarbonell.com/

right, tria wood by catharina lorenz & steffen kaz for colé

http://www.coleitalia.com, http://www.lorenz-kaz.com/

lumières and clocks

clamp lamp w153 by inga sempé for wästberg

http://www.ingasempe.fr/, http://www.wastberg.com/

leff amsterdam presenta tube line, designer piet hein eek

http://leffamsterdam.com/, http://www.pietheineek.nl/nl

toronto-based storyboard furniture have designed the plane cloud, a pendant light inspired by the shaving curls made from a woodworkers well tuned plane

http://www.storyboardfurniture.ca/

danse

jeffrey vanhoutte freezes acrobatic angels in powdered milk showers

http://www.jeffreyvanhoutte.be/showcase.php

exhibitions

amalia del ponte, la porta senza porta, galleria milano

http://www.galleriamilano.net/

russell marks, “curse of the pigeon,” oil on canvas, part of an exhibition last fall of work by national gallery staff in protest of privatization

http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/

musèes

modernista palace reconstructed into cannabis museum in barcelona

http://hashmuseum.com/

showrooms

flagship store caruso, milano, arch edgar vallora, installazione by giuseppe amato, arredi raimondo garau

http://www.carusomenswear.com/it/store-locator, broggi-infuso.it, giuseppeamatostudio.com, raimondogarau.com

photos

a picture taken on january 16, 2015 shows the pyramids of giza on the outskirts of cairo

https://ar-ar.facebook.com/MohamedElshahedPhotography

et caetera

un chercheur russe, andreï kazantsev, a trouvé comment récolter l'eau des nuages au moyen d'un immense filet suspendu à un dirigeable à deux kilomètres d'altitude, pour exploiter l’eau contenue dans les nuages et produire de l’eau potable et de l’électricité

https://uk.linkedin.com/in/akazantsev

proposed by chinese designers jie huang, jin wei, qiaowan tang, yiwei yu and zhe hao, the ‘rainforest guardian skyscraper’ towers over the amazonian landscape, protecting the region from the constant threat of fire and drought

http://www.evolo.us/

the mussel shell found in indonesia scratched with a zigzag believed made by homo erectus, which would make it the oldest art

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/12/141203-mussel-shell-oldest-art/

the creature lived during the early cretaceous period some 108 million years ago, making it 20 million years older than the next known horned dinosaur in the area, said the study led by andrew farke from the raymond m. alf museum of paleontology in california.

cinéma tunisien, from left, clockwise

karin albou, il canto delle spose; erige seheri, le facebook de mon père; nejib belkadhi, bastardo

http://www.filmtv.it/film/tunisia/

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voyages, tunis et north tunisia

tunisi, la porte de france e il suq

http://www.tunisiaturismo.it/

tunis, le musée nationale du bardo

http://www.patrimoinedetunisie.com.tn/fr/musees/bardo.php

sidi bou said

restaurant dar zarrouk, sidi bou said

http://www.darzarrouk.com/restaurant/

ichkeul national park

http://www.tourismtunisia.com/lake-ichkeul-in-bizerte/

bizerte

http://www.bizerte.it/

tabarka

http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabarka

il corallo rosso di tabarka

bulla regia

http://www.wmf.org/project/bulla-regia

museo chemtou

http://www.chimtou.com/