Permanent or temporary, urban infrastructure or heritage park, the creativity and ingenuity in these global projects and installations can’t be contained.
LIU SHUISHI Isabel Sullivan Gallery in New York presented “Existential, Being” in February, the Chinese-American artist’s solo exhibition featuring 15 new oils on canvas that explored themes of identity and existence, utilizing classical references such as Greek mythology. Photography: Alexa Bendek.
TOYO ITO At both the Triennale Milano and Fondation Cartier pour l’artcontemporain in Paris through October 4, the retrospective “Andrea Branzi by Toyo Ito. Continuous Present” designed by the Pritzker Architecture Prize winner highlights Branzi’s past as a designer and theoretician, including a reproduction of his and Archizoom’s Superarchitettura. Photography: Andrea Rossetti © Triennale Milano.
RADS Venezuelan architect Rodolfo Agrella is leading the creative direction on the global campaign to commemorate María del Monte Carmelo Rendiles, aka Madre Carmen, Venezuela’s first saint, encompassing her official portrait, liturgical objects, and a contemplative space that captures her spirit. Photography: courtesy of RADS.
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY In collaboration with Cemex Global, researchers from the school’s Matter Design lab have developed the Heirloom House concept, where movable concrete masses can be shifted to reconfigure floor plans as needed, enabling a cost-efficient, sustainable way of living. Photography: courtesy of Matter Design/MIT.
TARA LAL and T_M.SPACE In February at Sunder Nursery, a 90-acre park in New Delhi, the inaugural Aranyani Pavilion public-art and ecology initiative featured Sacred Nature, in bamboo, stone, upcycled invasive Lantana, and 40 other native species, revealing how architecture, when made of earth-born materials, can breathe and restore. Photography: Lokesh Dang/courtesy of Aranyani.
PS DESIGN Bent plywood and Subodh Gupta’s stainless-steel 27 Light Years transform a 15,000-square-foot, typical tech park lobby into the RTP Experience Centre & Art Gallery in Mumbai, India. Photography: Ashish Sahi.
PALOMA CAÑIZARES OFFICE Armed Fabrics: 1 Profile–1 Building, in waterproof fiberglass woven with resins and aluminum, at Marc Bibiloni gallery in Madrid last fall, was a result of Cañizares’s ongoing exploration into the architectural possibilities of rigidized textiles. Photography: Asier Rua.
WOOD MARSH West Gate Tunnel in Melbourne, Australia, spans nearly 5 miles, its lattice pattern inspired by the fishing nets used by Indigenous communities—the side ramps’ Perspex panels and tunnel’s prismatic lighting representing what’s caught within them. Photography: courtesy of Transurban and West Gate Tunnel.
PETER BOTTAZZI Debuting last spring, Palazzo Bonadi is a historic three-story residence in Altamura, Italy, that the set designer turned into an opera d’arte totale, or total work of art, where everything has been conceived, designed, furnished, and filled with site-specific contemporary works. Photography: Fréderic Ducout/Living Inside.
SOPHIE COLLÉ Included in last winter’s “Onni,” a group exhibition and Nordic-themed holiday market named after the Finnish word for happiness at Isabel Sullivan Gallery in New York, was the Brooklyn-based furniture designer’s Just for Fun #3 (Blue) in painted plywood. Photography: Elina Saunamäki.
SOUR On Cunda Island in Turkey, Pür is a residence and recording studio, the latter featuring rotating and height-adjustable ceiling panels and partitions that allow for real-time acoustic tuning, the exterior timber-slatted gables blending with the surrounding olive groves. Photography: Inanc Eray/Courtesy of Sour.
MINIMAL STUDIO Referred to as Plastic Box, Voramar Store in Majorca, Spain, turns food-shopping into a lesson in circular design, its 2,000 square feet contained in a raw concrete shell with polished-concrete flooring, steel shelving, monolithic checkout counters, and a ceiling of more than 1,000 recycled plastic crates that hide ventilation and LEDs. Photography: Leonardo Cóndor.
GH3* In Edmonton, Canada, gravel parking lots turned the nearly 5-acre O-day’min Park by CCxA landscape architecture features a pavilion in fluted weathering steel and stained marine-grade plywood, their color referencing the project’s name, which means strawberry in Anishinaabe, acknowledging the area’s Indigenous history. Photography: Raymond Chow.
FFERONE DESIGN During Milan Fashion Week last February, “Surreal Glass” celebrated 25 years of the brand founded in the city by architect and educator Felicia Ferrone with Politecnico di Milano Product Design students modeling accessories formed from her pieces, culminating in cocktails served in the same handcrafted Czech glassware. Photography: Cucu Milano.
WUTOPIA LAB Inspired by 15th-century landscape painter Tang Bohu, the Wutopia founders and architects Erni Min and Ting Yu reimagined the Xinguang Silk Weaving Factory in Suzhou, China, as the Verdant Ridges Theater, its exterior resembling a mountain. Photography: Guowei Liu.
ANDREA FARAGUNA The architect reactivated the Variety Arts Theater in Los Angeles last winter with “What a Wonderful World: An Audiovisual Poem,” a full-sensory exhibition including Jesper Just’s Something to Love film short (top) and Jordan Wolfson’s Artists Friends Racists LED-embedded fans (bottom). Photography: Joshua White/courtesy of Julia Stoschek Foundation.
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