«Mario Botta. Sacred and profane» at MAXXI Rome
The seventh edition of Nature features the work of Mario Botta, the world-famous Swiss designer who graduated with Carlo Scarpa, worked with Le Corbusier and Louis I. Kahn and is today a master among masters. With the Nature cycle MAXXI presents significant research in contemporary architecture, inviting the authors to talk about themselves through the […]
White Shed in Opatov by ATELIER 111 architekti
BigMat Award Finalist for the Czech Republic 2021, the building is a reinterpretation of traditional local architecture, proposing an alternative of what is built today for similar purposes in the Czech Republic. The new workshop building, located in an agricultural compound on the periphery of Opatov, is designed mainly for service and maintenance of large […]
«Rusticité» GENS at Maison de l’Architecture Occitanie-Pyrénées
From March 31 to June 15, 2022, the Maison de l’Architecture Occitanie-Pyrénées is hosting «Rusticité», a monographic exhibition proposed by the architecture agency GENS. Rusticité is an exhibition project that is three times naive. It illustrates a possible relationship between contemporary architecture and the rural world by breaking down each project presented into three elements:— […]
Salt Hangar in Selin Houffalize by Goffart Polomé Architectes
Today we rediscover the BigMat Finalist in Belgium’21, a project that proposes a traditional volumetry whose codes are reinterpreted in a neo-vernacular approach, transcending the ancestral construction principles of the silvicultural halls of the region. In a rural area where agricultural sheds are part of the landscape, the project tends to return to this typology […]
«Anna Heringer. The essential beauty» at Museo ICO Madrid
The ICO Museum presents the sustainable architecture of Anna Heringer, conceived to offer a better future. «Anna Heringer. The essential beauty» is the first retrospective dedicated to the German architect in Spain. The exhibition can be visited from February 9 to May 8 and includes guided tours and workshops to bring architecture closer to the […]
Casa O Fieiro by Arturo Franco
The architect Arturo Franco was awarded with the BigMat National Prize in Spain’21 and the Special Mention for Small-Scale Projects for his O Fieiro house project. The proposal includes the rehabilitation of a small stable for animals, a farmhouse from the year 1920 built with stone walls of large well-arranged granite ashlars. To renovate the […]
«Inside Outside / Petra Blaisse: A Retrospective» at MAXXI Rome
An installation that physically ruptures the confine between inside and out. A large curtain emerges from the museum galleries and extends into the piazza, introducing a new and alternative means of exploiting the external space. A Retrospective is a site-specific intervention composed of “soft” architecture creating the illusion of a false perspective and permitting the […]
New Synagogue in Zilina by PLURAL
Today we rediscover the transformation of a neglected neologic synagogue, designed by Peter Behrens, into a cultural centre, which was awarded as BigMat National Prize in Slovakia 2021. The renovation wants to achieve a dialectic relationship between the exceptional heritage and its new contents. The generous central space of the building is simply divided horizontally […]
“A Heart of Wood” White Arkitekter at Jaroslav Fragner Gallery
Sara Kulturhus is a mixed-use development that consists of a high-rise 20-storey hotel and cultural centre. The exhibition not only provides insights into the innovative construction process, but also introduces the many social and cultural uses.
Lisbon Cruise Terminal by Carrilho da Graça Arquitectos
Facing both the Tagus river and Alfama’s slope the Lisbon Cruise Terminal, BigMat National Prize in Portugal’21, presents a building designed as a simple volume, responding to the desire of liberating the surrounding area for the general public. The building is assumed towards the park and the city as a pavilion, an overflow system. It appears […]
