These days, Italy is not particularly renowned for its consumer electronics products; yet, there was a time, in the ’60s, when an Italian company was reputed to be the “European response” to American ...
One of the most famous architectural projects by Le Corbusier and a UNESCO world heritage site, the Unité d’Habitation in Marseille, also known as Cité Radieuse, is a 1952 residential building ...
Cross Laminated Timber, or CLT, is “the new kid in town” in the construction industry. Invented in Austria in the mid-1990s, this engineered timber is facing huge success and constantly growing ...
The Canadian Museum for Human Rights (CMHR) is a museum in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, dedicated to the basic rights belonging to every human being. Opened in 2014, the museum is housed in an iconic ...
Entitled ‘The Laboratory of the Future’, the 18th Venice Architecture Biennale has caused much controversy. Many defined it as “an architecture biennial without architecture” and deplored an excessive ...
Originating from a collaboration between architect Mario Cucinella – MCA and 3D-printer manufacturer WASP, TECLA is a prototype eco-house built near Ravenna, northern Italy, entirely made by 3D ...
The China Wood Sculpture Museum (中国木雕博物馆) in Harbin, the largest city of the Heilongjiang region in North-eastern China, is a museum dedicated to the wood sculpture and landscape painting typical of ...
The Metropol Parasol, designed by German architect Jürgen Mayer-Hermann together with Arup, with the Antiquarium entrance; photo John Mason CC BY 2.0. The area of intervention is located at the ...
The oldest public museums opened in Italy during the Renaissance. The Capitoline Museum and the Vatican Museums are perhaps the first institutions that we could call “museums”, although they were not ...
Conceived as a sort of “magic portal” between the land of the living and the realm of the dead, the Dřetovice stream footbridge, in the Czech Republic, connects the village of Vrapice with its ...
Update: the EMP museum was renamed MoPOP (Museum of POP Culture) in 2017. The semi-permanent exhibition “Nirvana: Taking Punk to the Masses” reopened at the museum in 2018 after touring in South ...