Design 16·10·2020
Andreu World celebrates its 65th anniversary with the publication of Sillipedia, a meticulously illustrated book on the history of a key item of furniture.
Architecture 13·10·2020
The new MEETT building offers an architectural connection to Toulouse’s farming and space industries. A modular “machine” building designed to host major science exhibitions and fairs, continuing the city’s innovative drive in recent years.
Icons 08·10·2020
Slow, that’s the idea, not only when choosing between the greengrocer and the hypermarket, but also in cooking, fashion, tourism, trade, exercise, sex and even in cities that claim to be in favour of this trend. But what does this philosophy, whose logo is an orange snail, really consist of?
We will visit the most representative buildings in New York, Chicago, Montpellier, Bordeaux, Shenzhen and Madrid to see how urban planning and the dynamics of their population have evolved.
New York, a city that shifts between degradation, improvement and astonishment, has renewed and redefined itself once again, becoming an example to follow.
From façades that lead the way in innovation to sustainable constructions and campuses that are a masterclass of stories.
Protecting our environment is a subject that raises much interest and generates a good deal of content in the media. However, the positive impact of this newfound awareness is not yet apparent.
Her architecture seeks to help the most disadvantaged by recovering local building methods and combining them with the use of drones and FRAME technology.
Irma Boom is one of the 21st century’s masters of book design. With her work, she reaffirms the survival of this form of reading and learning, as long as the reader is surprised and the book features an architectural dimension.
Icons 15·09·2020
The designer Candela Cort is preparing for a busy start to the Autumn this September, publishing La Fábrica, a book of her most important works, and opening an exhibition at the Galería Minim in Madrid in November. This exhibition will show her most emblematic works, hanging, shade and nylon headdresses, plastic landscapes and others made with negatives… her active creativity spanning almost 30 years.
We visit the Blakstad Studio, which maintains a fluid, essential dialogue with traditional Mediterranean architecture on the island of Ibiza.
Design 08·09·2020
Lighting has evolved towards the omnipresence of LED lights with a greater awareness of what light means for day-to-day living. Every daily activity, every action in our lives, deserves a different light.
It may be that those who designed our homes in the past were not as well-known as the architects who do it nowadays, but they were probably very efficient master builders.
