Australia has been producing quality architecture for some time now, but even more so since a new generation of designers has been reinterpreting local archetypes in order to arrive at solutions that ...
Preserving the historical heritage of the city. Making sure the buildings of the past are going to be there in the future, after they’ve been adapted to the present. The theme of conservation is a ...
Female architects in the world at the head of a practice with a staff of over a hundred can be counted on the fingers of one hand. Jeanne Gang is probably number one. After studying at the ...
“First life, then spaces, then buildings – the other way around never works.” This is what Jan Gehl, the Danish urban planner considered the doyen of public space, wrote over fifty years ago in his ...
It’s only just after 9 in the morning but the reception at CERN is already packed. Children on school trips, businessmen, busy members of staff. “It’s like this every morning,” confesses with some ...
An aptitude for sensing the different temperatures of the world that Mendini also displayed in another role he found congenial, that of artistic director, steering some special manufacturing companies ...