“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 “A Heart of Wood” not only provides insights into the innovative construction process, but also introduces the many social and cultural uses of this giant timber building.
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 […]
“Lambda Files” exhibition at La Virreina
Edvard Munch bequeathed his work to Oslo so that it could be housed in a new museum. This exhibition presents for the first time the whole process of design and construction of the building under the supervision of Estudio Herreros until it was inaugurated in October 2021. The exhibition documents a new way of practising […]
Pirelli Learning Center by Onsitestudio
The project for the new Pirelli Learning Center, BigMat National Prize in Italy 2021, is located within the historic industrial district of Bicocca, north of Milan, the subject of a profound urban transformation at the end of the 1980s according to Vittorio Gregotti’s masterplan. The building than will contain the learning centre and the canteen […]
