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11/07/2020

Ieoh Ming Pei in front of the Centre Pompidou in 1978. The great Chinese architect, naturalized American and winner of the Pritzker Prize in 1983, is happy with the work signed by Renzo Piano / Renzo Piano Building Workshop and Richard Rogers, completed a few months before.

This beautiful picture is by the great photographer Marc Ribaud, known for his extensive reports on the Far East, China in particular. Today this portrait of IM Pei could instinctively remind us of a selfie. Here at Cultivar we think it is the expression of a very strong and affectionate tension between the architect and the building. But also between the architect and the city of Paris, its open dialogue with contemporary architecture: the same that will give IM Pei the opportunity to make his famous intervention at the Musée du Louvre, wanted by President François Mitterrand and completed in 1989, possible.

08/06/2020

As Stefanie Waldek writes "Two architects designed a dream ski cabin that engages with the landscape some 3,000 feet above sea level"

Skigard Hytte by Mork Ulnes Architects on Architectural Digest, with a piece by Stefanie Waldek.

Ph by Bruce Damonte Photography

Two architects designed a dream ski cabin that engages with the landscape some 3,000 feet above sea level

04/06/2020

Razzle... dazzling! Powerbarn, the bioenergy power plant designed by Giovanni Vaccarini Architetti in Russi, Ravenna, is on the June issue of the Singapore-based Design and Architecture!

ph. by Massimo Crivellari

31/05/2020

19/05/2020

As the news states, we will need to wait until summer 2021 to discuss about the future of our coexistence.

"How Will We Live Together?", 17th International Architecture Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia, curated by Hashim Sarkis, has been postponed to 2021, to be held Saturday, May 22 to Sunday, November 21.

"Neither the question I asked How will we live together? nor the wealth of ways in response to it, were meant to address the crisis they are living, but here we are. We are in some ways fortunate because we are well equipped to absorb the immediate and longer-term implications of the crisis into the Venice Architecture Biennale 2021. The theme does also provide us with the possibility to respond to the pandemic in its immediacy. This is why we will return to Venice in the coming months for a series of activities devoted to Architecture.”

La Biennale di Venezia announces that the 17th International Architecture Exhibition—How Will We Live Together?—curated by Hashim Sarkis, has been postponed to 2021. Consequently, the 59th International Art Exhibition, curated by Cecilia Alemani, which was to take place in 2021, has in turn been...

18/05/2020

Cabin-magic on the latest Sunday-edition designboom newsletter by senior editor Sofia Lekka Angelopoulou.

Spot "Skigard Hytte", a timber-clad Norwegian cabin with a twist in Kvitfjell, designed by Mork Ulnes Architects, documented under a spectacular coat of snow by Juan Benavides.

Check this and other projects selected for the newsletter, link here:
https://www.designboom.com/newsletters/web_sunday.php?nlhash=n170520200927bac4b023cc8bdbcc15f6cb993fe1

18/05/2020

Did you ever build a fort out of sofa cushions and blankets? Do your kids cover tables with multiple tablecloths to make a secret den? You probably replied positively as this is a universal drive rooted in kid’s healthy development.

Now that the COVID-19 lockdowns have forced us to stay inside and find different ways to entertain children, IKEA has launched — in its typical illustration language — six different ways to make furniture forts.

17/05/2020

100 Day Studio: Flores & Prats On the Table. Tomorrow, Monday 18 May 20h (CET) via Zoom, Flores & Prats architects will join the powerful 100 Day Studio program offered by The Architecture Foundation in London.

On this occasion, Eva Prats and Ricardo Flores will present an intimate look at the material on the table, on the drawing board and around it. Starting by showing the drawings of Variétés new Laboratory for Creative Arts the practice is developing in Brussels, through hand drawings, models of the process of evolution and other images of reference. The duo will share projects in an intermediate, unfinished state, talking about doubts and intuitions.

The Architecture Foundation brings you a daily diet of online lectures, interviews, building tours and panel discussions - all live and all free

08/05/2020

From Triennale Milano to La Biennale di Venezia to Fondazione Achille Castiglioni and MAXXI - Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo:
these organizations gathered since the beginning of the lockdown have continued to produce culture through their online channels. They have put on virtual events in order to remain in touch with their audiences and to create new opportunities for reflection, distraction, and inspiration in these complex and challenging times. Here's a list of content to be watched, read and discussed in the months to come.

Italian design and architecture organizations respond to COVID-19

07/05/2020

Oslo and San Francisco-based Mork Ulnes Architects have been selected among the recipients of the Architectural League of New York's Emerging Voices 2020 Award.

In response to the shutdown caused by Covid-19 pandemic, the Architectural League of New York has created the , a new digital series in lieu of the traditional live lectures for the 2020 Emerging Voices program.

Hear and watch Casper Mork-Ulnes presenting two residential projects—one in Norway, the other in California— and discussing how parallel design strategies were used in both despite their extremely distinct sites and cultural contexts.

2020 Emerging Voices winner Mork Ulnes Architects presents its work.

04/05/2020

British architecture firm Foster + Partners recently launched an initiative called , a series of free downloadable activities that hopes to share the whimsy and wonder of the built environment with screen-bound kids.

British firm Foster + Partners developed a series of activities for kids to explore architecture at home.

01/05/2020

It was with great honor that a few weeks ago we announced that Mork Ulnes Architects was among the recipients of The Architectural League of New York's Emerging Voices 2020 Awards .

Now we are proud to present the , a new digital series in lieu of the traditional live lectures for the 2020 Emerging Voices program.

In this video, Casper Mork-Ulnes, whose practice is based in San Francisco and Oslo, presents two residential projects—one in Norway, the other in California— that all our readers will certainly remember and discusses how parallel design strategies were used in both despite their extremely distinct sites and cultural contexts.

More here:
https://archleague.org/article/emerging-voices-reports-mork-ulnes/

2020 Emerging Voices winner Mork Ulnes Architects presents its work.

23/04/2020

Border Crossing House by Simone Subissati Architects on the great April issue of DesignHunter México.

Orgullosamente de pie en las colinas de la región italiana de Marche, la CASA DI CONFINE de SIMONE SUBISSATI ARCHITECTS es una residencia privada que recupera la esencia de las casas rurales locales, mientras evoca los experimentos de algunos de los protagonistas de la VANGUARDIA RADICAL ITALIANA.

Un edificio que trabaja con el medio ambiente y toma señales del paisaje.

Ph: by Alessandro Magi Galluzzi

21/04/2020

"While working from home, we try to keep the intensity of the collective work of our studio through a permanent interaction with our collaborators by internet. Regarding ourselves, as our working process is developed through hand drawing, we have installed a big table, similar in dimensions to those of our studio, in the middle of our living room, and brought all our drawing tools, models and drawings of the project we are working on, some of the books that inspire us the most… to have them around us"- Flores & Prats x L'Architecture d'Aujourd'hui (AA)

19/04/2020

As countries prepare for their phase 2 out of the lockdow, we could not help but wonder how architecture studios like ECÒL could transform tape into architectural element.

"Tape As Pandemic Architectural Element"

https://kottke.org/20/04/tape-as-pandemic-architectural-element

In Singapore, tape is being used as a sort of architectural element to denote closure of public spaces and promote & enforce p

17/04/2020

The May issue of Wallpaper* magazine features La Manufacture for CELINE by MetroOffice Architetti MOa, “impeccable Tuscan manufactory” as Sarah Douglas puts it in her editorial.

“The architects devised full walls of glass to open the panorama in every direction for the factory’s workers, swearing off view-blocking window blinds and curtains to mediate the sun.” - says Laura Rysman.

You can download you free May Issue on the website.

Photos by Marco Cappelletti.

16/04/2020

On the April issue AD Architectural Digest Germany dedicates "To Italy", we are happy to find Simone Subissati Architects's Casa di Confine in Ancona, Marche.

"Franciscan life" is the article by Florian Siebeck on the vernacular yet avant-garde inspired residential house on the hills of Polverigi.

"Old country house, rethought: The Casa di Confine by Simone Subissati frees the mind and leaves the landscape of the Marche to the big stage."

Ph: Alessandro Magi Galluzzi
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