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Musee du Quai Branly / Ateliers Jean Nouvel

April 12, 2019 Martita Vial 0

This is a museum built around a specific collection, where everything is designed to evoke an emotional response to the primary object, to protect it from light, but also to capture that rare ray of light indispensable to make it vibrate and awaken its spirituality. In a place inhabited by symbols of forests and rivers, by obsessions of death and oblivion, it is an asylum for censored and cast off works from Australia and the Americas. It is a loaded place haunted with dialogues between the ancestral spirits of men, who, in discovering their human condition, invented gods and beliefs. It is a place that is unique and strange, poetic and unsettling. 

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OMA Wins Competition for Adaptable Masterplan of Milan’s Disused Railway Sites

April 12, 2019 Niall Patrick Walsh 0

OMA has won a masterplanning competition for the redevelopment of the Scalo Farini and San Cristoforo sites, two disused railway yards north and south of the periphery of Milan. Led by OMA’s Ippolito Pestellini Laparelli and Reinier de Graaf, and co-designed with Laboratorio Permanente, the “Agenti Climatici” scheme revolves around concepts of ecological filters and adaptable development. The OMA scheme triumphed over finalists including Baukuh, Arup, Grimshaw, and Kengo Kuma.

KC Design Studio adds multi-functional furnishings to Apartment X in Taipei

April 12, 2019 Ali Morris 0
Interiors of Apartment X, designed by KC Design Studio

KC Design Studio has squeezed a series of living areas into this 46-square-metre apartment in Taipei by incorporating space-saving furniture pieces. Apartment X was purchased by a young man in the finance industry, who tasked KC Design Studio with overhauling the space to accommodate his personal needs. “It is true that humans have the greatest adaptation skills because we can

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House JA / HW-STUDIO

April 12, 2019 Daniel Tapia 0

Aside from vindicating the very presence of the house, we imagined Casa JA from the beginning as a discreet and slight horizontal line that highlights the sky and the mountains in the background with the latest rays of the sun draining between them. We had to keep the main façade timidly hidden from the eyes of those circulating the streets of the San-ta Barbara glen. We wanted the house to be so intimate and silent that only suggested its presence, avoiding any presumption, exaggerated exhibition or the typical ostentation of the place where it is located.

martin lejarraga restores ‘la casa del ángel’ shelter in rural spain

April 12, 2019 macnadusa 0

architect martin lejarraga has restored a small shelter in spain, which has been used by excursionists, hunters, and mountaineers for several decades. titled ‘la casa del ángel’, the refuge is located in a rural area of southeastern spain known as la sierra de jumilla. ‘due to its relevance on its context, geographical as much as […]

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Sancal Pavilion at Salone del Mobile is Inspired by the Maze of Milan Underground

April 12, 2019 Dima Stouhi 0

Designers at this year’s Milan Design Week drew inspiration from everything and anything around them. Many were inspired by the serenity of nature, some by picturesque vintage pieces, and others by tokens from their youth. Although inspiration often comes unannounced in the most unexpected places, the inspiration behind Sancal’s pavilion at this year’s Salone del Mobile, was encouraged by one simple, very common mistake.