Singapore: Fifty Years of Solitude
Night view of Singapore - photo by Depositphotos
Singapore is difficult to define, difficult and complex for its perhaps unique status, a place that simultaneously represents, as in Luigi Pirandello’s famous novel, the disintegration of...
Hongkong Art Storage
The project describes a space for storing and selling paintings in a tower located at the centre of Hong Kong. Given the program of an infrequently used space, Penda introduce a suitcase-like box made...
Constitución Cultural Centre
Developed in the context of the Post-tsunami Sustainable Reconstruction Plan (PRES) of Constitución, the project is located on a side of the town square, inaugurating the new civic character of Constitución’s public buildings. The...
Elemental: Architecture as Strategy
Alejandro Aravena was pleased that Area’s editorial office contacted him prior to his appointment as Director of the next Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale, because evidently, after this assignment numerous magazines and media...
Las Cruces Lookout Point
Building in a remote place should generate an architecture able to age as if it were a natural element. So, we thought of a kind of hollowed stone, bent to rest calmly on the...
UC Innovation Centre
Angelini Innovation Center turned the conventional office plan inside out for 3 reasons: first, Santiago’s weather requires to avoid direct sun radiation on glass surfaces otherwise the energy consumption in air conditioning is ridiculous....
Xixi Wetland Estate
Xixi, a national wetland park located on the outskirts of Hangzhou, is a built landscape and an area of nature, which has been shaped by man for over a thousand years. The omnipresent relationship...
The Facade: the role and autonomy of the face
Archea Associati, Tango Disco, Beijing. Photo by Pietro Savorelli.
During the Renaissance, a building‘s facade acquired autonomy and importance that went beyond the building‘s sense of necessity; whereas in the nineteenth century, the facade embodied...
Daeyang Gallery and House
The private gallery and house is sited in the hills of the Kangbuk section of Seoul, Korea. The project was designed as an experiment parallel to a research studio on “the architectonics of music”....
The German fascination for the Post Modern of 1984
This year’s Summer appointment with culture, organised in the civilised city of Frankfurt, attaches great significance to the spirit of innovation promoted ever since 1984. To remember past avant-garde movements and to speak of...
The space of well-being
Carlo Vannicola introduces the space of physical and mental well-being.
Fazenda Boa Vista Spa
The Spa architecture follows the landscape morphology with a series of spaces, which are diversified by the use of textures and light.