Ambra Toba collection by Studio Davidpompa
Mexican Studio Davidpompa unveils the Ambra Toba light sculptures made of volcanic dust and aluminium.
Mexican volcanic rocks shine and float in David Pompa’s ‘Magmatic Parallelism’ lighting design collection
With the ‘Magmatic Parallelism’ collection, David Pompa balances metal and volcanic rock to create exquisite suspended lighting designs.
Desert X 2021: 5 landscape art installations in the Coachella Valley exploring the desert as both a place and idea
Desert X 2021: a wishing-well addressing access to potable water in Africa, a crafted maze exploring the desert as a cross-cultural border space, and an architectural installation questioning relativity and time between terrestrial land and outer space are among the best landscape art installations on show.
Trumpitecture: US elections engage with architecture
From archi-bullying to flamboyant ego-towers. We look into US elections with a Trumpitecture architectural perspective.
Maestro DOBEL® Tequila and Julian Mayor unveil bespoke agave-inspired bar and drinking vessels
It all started from the agave, the base ingredient of tequila, and a trip to Mexico – then it took a lot of computer work and welding. That’s how the agave-inspired limited-edition set by Julian Mayor and Maestro DOBEL® tequila was born.
Rael San Fratello has turned the US-Mexico border wall into a friendly meeting space for people of all ages… on seesaws!
California-based studio Rael San Fratello has re-imagined the US-Mexico border wall installing pink seesaws that allowed children and adults from both sides to play together.
FGP Atlier’s Estadio Diablos Rojos in Mexico City reinvigorates baseball and fosters a sense of community and culture
Estadio Diablos Rojos by FGP Atelier tops Mexican pyramids-inspired architectures with a roof aptly-shaped in the form of a devil’s tail – referring to the local ‘Red Devils’ baseball team – to bring people together.
Eduardo Neira’s AZULIK Art Center opens in the jungles of Mexico
The AZULIK Art Center by Roth features sustainable biomorphic concrete volumes and floating bridges which seem to naturally grow from the Mexican wilderness.
Keep and Bear launches a lego-style US-Mexico border wall
If Trump won’t be able to build the US-Mexico border wall after the midterm elections, you can still build it in your own living room thanks to the new Lego-style kit by Keep and Bear.
Design Week Mexico 2018: 7 Mexican studios to watch at INÉDITO
The hope and vulnerability in the wake of the earthquake, Mexican women’s charisma and millennial’s lifestyle but also planets and satellites’ movements and reflections inspired these 7 Mexican studios at the INÉDITO exhibition.
Best of Design Week Mexico 2018
Back from Mexico City! Archipanic explored Design Week Mexico 2018 on the fair’s 10th anniversary. Pitch black furniture and vibrant interiors meshing indoor and outdoor but also designs inspired by Mexican women’s charisma and outer space reflections. Check what we liked the most!
INTERVALO: Esrawe inks reconfigurable furniture design black
A bookshelf with rotating vertical panels, a table with a base which can be flipped upside down and two chairs with an understated imprint. At Design Week Mexico, Esrawe studio went ‘total black’ with the INTERVALO furniture collection.
Design House: 24 studios turn an abandoned house in Mexico City into an interior design experimental space
At Design Week Mexico 2018, the Design house exhibition invited some of the country’s most cutting-edge studios to blur the lines between indoor and outdoor, natural and urban for a more intimate and human-based interior design.
Pinterest: Mexico 2018
The best of Mexico Design Week is on Pinterest – explore our dedicated board!
META: David Pompa designs enigmatic lamps made from volcanic rock
Recinto, a volcanic rock used for centuries in Central America to create crafts encounters a minimalist and contemporary design in David Pompa’s META lighting designs.
Serpentine Pavilion 2018: a time-piece architecture by Frida Escobedo
Frida Escobedo’s Serpentine Pavilion 2018 harnesses a subtle interplay of light, water and geometry. The Mexican architect is the 18th and youngest architect to accept the invitation to design the long awaited temporary structure in the Serpentine Gallery lawn in Kensington Gardens, London.
Border walls’ architecture from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe
Trump’s wall and the DMZ (Demilitarized Zone) splitting the Korean peninsula in two… These border walls are just the tip of a global iceberg. Archipanic explores protectionist and divisive constructions across Europe, Asia, Africa and Latin America.
Should Trump’s US-Mexico border wall prototypes become US National Monuments?
Whether Trump’s dream to erect a US-Mexico border wall comes true or not, should the built prototypes rising near San Diego be protected as an architectural proof of the spirit of the times?
DWM17: 6 emerging Mexican designers experiment with volcanic stone and concrete
Semi-liquid pastel-coloured stone, porous lava-rock vessels and responsible radiators. 6 emerging Mexican designers mesh traditional crafts with urban style.
Mexico Design Week 2017 showcased the country’s creative resilience
Disfunctional homes, Swiss-Mexican collaborations and ephemeral public installations surrounded by greenery. Mexico Design Week 2017 boosted the country’s thriving design vibe in the wake of deadly earthquakes.
Eight fronts, battlefronts and frontiers on show at Venice Architecture Biennale 2016
Which are the fronts that architects can tackle in order to improve people’s life? We examine eight fronts and key topics explored by must-see exhibitions at Venice Architecture Biennale 2016.
Miami: Latin American design
ArchiPanic’s preview of Miami Art & Design week focuses on some of the most impressive Latin American designs, installations and parties in the so called Magic City.
Architecture of Milan Expo 2015
At Milan Expo 2015 international architects designed sustainable and temporary national pavilions in name of the fair motto “Feed the planet”.
Cooperativa Panoràmica matches different materials under one single color
Cooperativa Panoràmica presents MONO, a furniture collection that creates a monochromatic camouflage puzzling different materials.