2020 round up: best 10 COVID-19 related architecture and design stories

10 COVID-19 related architecture and design stories of 22020. CURA by CRA-Carlo Ratti Associati - Photo by Max Tomasinelli

From shipping containers turned into ICUs to to ‘silent’ architectural photo-essays, functional & safe furnitures and iconic techno clubs reopening as art spaces. We rounded up 10 Covid-19 related architecture and design stories of 2020.

Fuorisalone 2019: 14 architectural design exhibitions in Milan

Tell Me More indtallation by Rapt Studio at Ventura Centrale 2019 - Courtesy of Ventura Projects

Giorgio Armani celebrates Tadao Ando, Arthur Mamou-Mani digitally designs COS installation, Carlo Ratti grows architecture like a mushroom while Mario Cucinella pays tribute to Bauhaus… 12 architectural design exhibitions at Milan Design Week

Fuorisalone 2018: 7 secret gardens, eclectic forests and green pavilions in Milan

piuarch @ Milan Design Week 2018 - Photo by piuarch

Four seasons flourishing under the same roof, a glowing-city at Brera Botanic Orchard and a forest of lanterns under the castle. Nature conquers Milan Design Week 2018; discover green pavilions by Kengo Kuma, piuarch, Mario Cucinella, Carlo Ratti and more…

5 verdant skyscrapers aiming to turn our cities’ skylines into forests

© 俯瞰図

Suspended green oases, energy-consumption extensions and wooden high-rises. Sou Fujimoto, Stefano Boeri, Stephan Malka, Big and Carlo Ratti designed verdant skyscrapers for a greener urban future.

Carlo Ratti’s responsive workspace for Fondazione Agnelli tunes new working habits with the internet of things

Fondazione Agnelli by Carlo Ratti Associati - Photo by Beppe Giardino.

Personalized thermal bubbles, suspended nets and a co-working office in the orchard. Carlo Ratti Associati completed a digitally responsive architecture for Fondazione Agnelli. The new hub in Turin embraces new ways of net-working by using bigdata and the internet of things.

Vitra Design Museum explores our love-hate relationship with robots

"Hello, Robot. Design between Human and Machine" - Photo by Mark Niedermann; courtesy of Vistra Design Museum.

From Terminator to smart floor sweepers but also 3D printers for bridges and responsive fashion designs. Shall we trust robots? Vitra Design Museum looks into our complex relationship with intelligent machines that could either save our lives or steal our job.

Water mobility: self-driving boats and the internet of sailing, get ready for high-tech hydrodynamics

Quadrofoil Q2S.

Water mobility: personal submarines and navigating floating gyms, the ultimate water-bike but also self-driving Roboats crossing Amsterdam canals… With 70% of the planet covered in water, the future of traveling might come as a gliding technology.

Internet of Things is not a threat as long as it is human-centred, say innovators to ArchiPanic

OK GLASS FIND BANANA Photo by Thomas Hawk - Flickr CC.

How will the internet of things frame our future living space? ArchiPanic met influential innovators Carlo Ratti, Reto Wettach, Jessica Nebel and Alessandro Masserdotti who believe that hype-free human-centred technology can honestly improve our future.