Jean Verville’s MEV cabin borrows geometries and colours from the Memphis Group
Curving geometries and kaleidoscopic interiors define MEV Cabine, the eclectic refuge in the woods that Studio Jean Verville has created for ‘two admirable eccentrics’.
Sansiro 2.0: Angelo Renna re-imagines Milan’s iconic stadium as a memorial to the victims of Covid-19
35.000 cypresses, as many as the victim of COVID-19 in Italy, stand in the ‘SANSIRO 2.0 – A A MONUMENT FOR LIFE’ memorial envisioned by Angelo Renna. The proposal repurposes Milan’s iconic stadium as a silent place for contemplation, saving it from demolition.
The Plus: BIG and Vestre unveil “the world’s most sustainable furniture factory”
Tucked in the heart of the Norwegian forest, The Plus factory by BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group for urban furniture manufacturer Vestre was “envisioned as a village for a community dedicated to the cleanest, carbon neutral fabrication of urban and social furniture.”
‘FOR FOREST’: bringing an Alpine forest into an Austrian stadium, to make statement on climate change
One day seeing trees might be a rare show, like going to the stadium of watching pandas in a zoo. From here, Klaus Littmann’s FOR FOREST project aims to raise awareness on our future by planting a forest in a football stadium pitch in a small city in the southern Austrian state of Carinthia. But far right parties on an electoral campaign attacked the successful art project.
Dômes Charlevoix: cosy bubble-suites float atop Canadian forests
Experience luxury in harmony with nature at the Bourgeois / Lechasseur architects’ Dômes Charlevoix eco-luxurious accommodations in Quebec.
Arcipelago Italia: 4 poetic architectures and landscape projects reviving Italy’s interior territories
A mountain lake soundscape bringing communities together, a sensible village embracing beech-tree forests, a tuffaceous village springing from abandoned quarries and a star-inspired theatre by a Sicilian sculptor-shepherd. We selected 4 poetic architectures and landscape projects on show at the Arcipelago Italia exhibition.
Fuorisalone 2018: 7 secret gardens, eclectic forests and green pavilions in Milan
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…
Bhutan Happiness Center preserves culture and identity blending architecture with Nature
Bhutan Happiness Center by architect Hoang Thuc Hao and studio 1+1>2 balances human-made and Nature-made, sustainability and spirituality.
Besonias Almeida nests a concrete family house in an Argentinian forest by the sea
A concrete pergola creating a pattern of light and shadow welcomes guests to a summer family house by Besonias Almeida Arquitectos. An open air courtyard and sober interiors are hidden by the Nature of Argentinian Northern coast.
Design trends: Maison Objet goes WILD
Wild, untamed and uncontaminated: MAISON&OBJET international furniture fair in Paris presents 2016 design trend.
Austria Pavilion at Milan Expo 2015
Austria Pavilion at Milan Expo 2015 works as an air generator thanks to a real alpine forest that purifies and refreshes the environment.
Cafe Ki: minimal urban forest in Tokyo by id inc.
In Tokyo, id inc has designed Cafe Ki: a minimal urban forest combining a pure white space with stylized coffee coloured tree.
Fairytale blown-glass table lamp
HopLow & Family blown-glass table lamps by QUarch Atelier are crafted by Venician artisans and inspired by woodlands’ creatures.
100 Endangered Forests
Taylor Cullity Lethlean won the Landscape of the year Award at the World Architecture Festival with a garden that puzzles 100 forests of the world’s most endangered tree species.
Tuning Architecture with Nature
“Not a single pine will be torn down”. NietoSobejano Arquitectos designed a new home for the Arvo Pärt Centre near Talinn. Inspired by the Estonian composer’s symphonies, the new cultural hub will dialogues respectfully with the surrounding landscape.
The Australian Garden celebrates the country’s Nature
Taylor Cullity Lethlean designed the Australian Garden, a natural park and a botanic path that shows how water shapes the country’s landscape.
El Espinar House: Architecture video
Architect and photographer Miguel de Guzmán with his own studio Imagen Subliminal realized the El Espinar House project and presented it with an eclectic architecture video that takes inspiration by Red Riding Hood story and Michel Gondry’s style with a dark dash of David Lynch.
Birdhouses
Birdhouses architecture? Recent the projects by Nendo, Frederik Roje, Jarrod Lim and Andreu Carulla look deeper into our relationship with Nature and offer a playful and intimate reflection upon our coexistence with other living beings.
C’est Chouette
Quarch-atelier presents “c’est chouette!” a fairy-tale lamp made in hand-crafted porcelain.