Diébédo Francis Kéré, architect, educator and social activist, has been selected as the 2022 Laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, announced Tom Pritzker, Chairman of The Hyatt Foundation, which sponsors the award that is regarded internationally as architecture’s highest honor.
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A journey through dreamlike landscapes, bizarre buildings, and whimsical interiors floating between reality and fantasy.
A prime example of playful “tropical architecture”: The egg-shaped Coco Villas designed by Studio formafatal and ARCHWERK are part of the Art Villas Resort in Costa Rica. They seem to float above the ground and are predestined to literally hang out there for a while.
Residence 0110 is the refurbishment of Raúl Sánchez apartment. It is located in the Poble Nou neighborhood, Barcelona, where the ‘Cerdá Eixample’ begins to be disfigured, and where recently the 22@ district is introducing contemporary architecture in clear contrast to the area’s industrial past.
Handmade, bold, big, white, complex, strong, abstract, photogenic, artistic, decorative, interesting, symbolical 186 ceramic tubes forming a spherical sculpture – forming N186.
In the KURO MORI restaurant in the middle of Freiburg’s old town, you feel like you’re in Tokyo, Shanghai or Singapore. In addition, the new restaurant by star chef Steffen Disch is one of the “Most Beautiful Restaurants & Bars 2021” …
Workplace ahoy! Architecture studio Powerhouse Company has designed a concept for a floating office building. Sustainable, energy-neutral and made of wood …
Pavilion of Estonia: “Square! Positively shrinking” at the International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia 2021
The exhibition “Square! positively shrinking” explores the role of high-quality urban space in enhancing the future development perspective of depopulating small towns …
Designed by the Florentine architecture practice Pierattelli Architetture, the future electricity converter substation pays homage to the Tuscan countryside, merging into the colors of the nature …
Kukido is a floral composition that combines ethics and aesthetics. Designed by the Japanese studio Green Wise, these innovative arrangements have been chosen by Pianca for its showroom inside the world’s first Green Retail Park in Turin, Italy …
Set amidst the spectacular Engadin mountain landscape on the sunny side of the Samnaun valley, you will find the design hotel Alpinlodge & Spa. Claudia and Hansjörg Kolednik have been its owners and hosts for over ten years …
Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara, co-founders of Grafton Architects, have been named the 2020 laureates of the Pritzker Architecture Prize …
1 of the 100 most beautiful Hotels in Europe is situated right next to east Tyrol’s largest skiing area, the Grossglockner resort Kals-Matrei. The Gradonna****s Mountain Resort Chalets & Hotel not only stands out due to its exclusive location but also because of its superb architecture. But that’s not all…
Nobility obliges. But so is the name. In the case of London’s new The BoTree Hotel, the Bodhi tree, under which Buddha is said to have attained enlightenment, was the inspiration. Concrete Amsterdam created an appealing interior design for the five-star hotel.
Door number 14 opens gently and leads quietly into a room of silence, where Scandinavian design philosophies meet Japanese wisdom. The Danish Norm Architects have been studying the Far East for a long time and have incorporated their findings into numerous projects. Together with Gestalten Verlag, they have published Stillness, a book that we are giving away at the quietest time of the year.
Today we breathe in the scent of the South Tyrolean forests and open door number 12 to the Blaslahof, which has been transformed over the years from a farm into an organic retreat. The historic main building with its rustic barn has been extended to include designer chalets that are close to nature and you could soon be spending three nights in one of these.
No, the Douro Boys are not a boy band, but the spirit is the same: they work together to touch the hearts of the whole world. Not with pop songs, of course, but with wine – from the Douro Valley. Not only does the river of the same name flow here, but above all port wine. One of the four Douro Boys members also runs the marvellous Hotel Casa do Rio. Door number 9 takes us to Portugal for today’s prize: a night in a hotel including wine tasting for two people.
How would you paint clouds? Soft and airy or dark and thundery? Abstract, impressionistic or surreal? Blue, colourful or even colourless? With the Cloud carpet, Harald Geba from the carpet manufacturer of the same name in Graz brings his very own idea of the natural phenomenon to the floor. The 90 x 60 cm dream piece is hiding behind door number 2 today.