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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

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