When the skylight at center is open, the mirrors send a ray of light that hits the middle at a perpendicular angle. The barrels are moved in and out of the space by huge machines with telescopic arms.
Photo: David L. Ryan/Boston Globe
Le Meridien Lingotto—Once a Fiat car factory, this hotel is an example of a popular blend of architecture in Europe which mixes the old with the new. A competition was held to see which architect would bring the old factory into the 21st century, and the winner was Renzo Piano, who took on the 800,000 sq.ft. factory and transformed it into the successful hotel you see today. Photo by: ilsole24ore
Where: Turin, Italy
What: Design hotel; old meets new
Designed by: Renzo Piano
The sunlight, which burns bright and then disappears quickly behind the clouds, sends an ever-changing array of shadows onto the piazza.
A view of the new Living Room visitor orientation space on the ground floor of the Gardner's new wing. Furniture selected by Renzo Piano Workshop, including the vibrant red seating. Not pictured: a guest book commissioned from artist Stefano Arienti, who also created the installation piece hanging on the entry facade.
Pritzker Prize–winner Renzo Piano is the most ubiquitous Italian architect on the global stage. He has lovely manners, and his international workshop consistently churns out polished, thoughtful, calm, and high-tech public spaces. Piano’s unrivaled string of blockbusters over the last few decades includes Kansai International Airport in Osaka, San Francisco’s California Academy of Sciences, and the Shard, Europe’s tallest skyscraper, underway in London. We explore a few of his architectural achievements.
Clad in copper panels that Holl had fabricated by the Kansas City, Missouri, company Zahner, the house is daylit by a host of rectangular skylights (inspired by the musical staff) punched through the roofs and the pool’s floor.
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Brill's practice area features a ’50s Wurlitzer piano and a mid-’60s Ludwig drum kit. For acoustics, the architect insulated the walls with two layers of Sheetrock stuffed with denim insulation. The floor is made of pegboard—an unusual, albeit cost-effective, material choice.
When viewed from above, the Daeyang Gallery and House is nearly identical to the sketch Anhalt made for his Symphony of Modules, though Holl has filled Anhalt’s negative space with a pool of water.
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The view from the uppermost level of the yard looks down to the slide and the sloped lawn, sandbox, and, beyond the gate, bioretention unit and mulch.
The late San Francisco landscape architect Lawrence Halprin.
The ever-changing, lush wooded surroundings of Minnesota, such as those experienced at this 8,000-square-foot Type Variant House outside of Minneapolis designed by Coen and Partners, are right near the small town of New Richland.
Architect Lawrence Halprin wrote of his Portland Open Space Sequence that he wanted the eight blocks of parks and plazas to contain "nodes for quiet contemplation, action, and inaction, hard and soft, yin and yang."
Maya Lin in her New York City studio. Her latest multimedia work, What is Missing?, is a memorial for extinct species.
An aerial view of Washington, DC, circa 1993.
Walter Hood is perfectly comfortable carving out serene spaces amid often chaotic urban Oakland, California. Despite the speeding cars overhead, Splash Pad Park is now home to a thriving farmer’s market.
Mabel by Donna Wilson for SCP
Feast in the House of Simon Chair designed by Mark Moskovitz.
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Shibuya vases by Christophe Pillet for Kartell.
These cashmere-and-merino wool Love Blankets designed by Holly Berry are woven at a 250-year-old mill in Scotland; cleverly, the pattern spells out the word "love" in Morse code.
Mayor Sofa by Arne Jacobsen
Jacobsen designed this canape in 1939 for the city hall in Søllerød, Denmark, and it has never been produced for the retail market. Its Danish modern form is updated with bright yellow upholstery (though it’s also available in gray and black for the less adventurous). $6,495
Either as a companion to her new tea kettle or as a stand alone gift, we love these hand-crafted earthenware cups by Chicago-based Susan Dwyer. They've been individually dipped in yellow rubber, giving them a bit of grip and a burst of bright color.
Architect Tamira Sawatzky and artist Elle Flanders get an awfully good view of their busy Toronto street from their office and dining room.
Architect Janna Levitt devised a creative emellishment for a residence in Canada. Photo by: Philip Cheung
Towards the end of the day, when dusk arrives, the glowing lights from the interior gives the feeling that each volume is floating in space.
“We wanted a space for entertaining groups, and also ourselves, that felt open—almost like a loft,” says Peart of the couple’s mezzanine-level living room.
Designer Omer Arbel develops his latest works inside an eclectic Vancouver home filled with a teeming assortment of pets and prototypes. Hanging over the bench is our first Bocci 14 light fixture. I feel like it would be bad luck not to have it in the house. Other pieces in the kitchen—like the wooden island Aileen found in an alleyway and the yellow ceramics by Knabstrup, a Danish company active in the 1960s—we’ve collected along the way.” Photo by José Mandojana.
“The house is a piece of origami made out of triangular shapes, which we then draped over the landscape,” says Arbel.
Edmonton architect Vivian Manasc’s 19th-story rooftop penthouse is sustainable and colorful, offering the perfect solution to downtown living. Photo by Garth Crump.
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The most well-known gallery, Gallerie Eigan + Art, became famous for its punk aesthetic during the GDR times and is currently presenting Gespenter by Neo Rauch Das Bannende (shown).
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