An exhibition entitled Wouldn’t it be nice… exploring the common ground between art and design, including work by Jurgen Bey, Dunne & Raby, Martino Gamper and Martí Guixé, opens at the Embankment Galleries at Somerset House in London this September.
The exhibition will feature new and recent work from ten practitioners and will be accompanied by performances, installations and talks. MORE…
A new primary school canteen by architect José Cadilhe of Cadilhe & Fontoura has been completed in Póvoa de Varzim, Portugal. The Primary School nº1 in Póvoa de Varzim is a renovated example of Plano dos Centenários (Plan of the Centenaries) developed in 1941, whose typology (Douro) was designed by Rogério de Azevedo, a renowned architect from Oporto. This plan was a response to the increasing necessity and need to obtain a wide coverage of elementary schools throughout the country. MORE…
Sunny Day by Stockholm-based lighting artist Aleksandra Stratimirovic is an installation made of over four thousand glass medical phials filled with coloured liquids, which combine to produce the image of a girl beside a lake. MORE…
Best known for its collection of traditional prefabricated houses, the Finnish Kannustalo company’s modern model Touch will be displayed at an exhibition of prefabricated homes opening on 20 July at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York.
The Finland-based Kannustalo’s prefabricated house Touch was designed by the renowned Finnish architects Mikko Heikkinen and Markku Komonen. MORE…
The exhibition Traces at the Gallery art.si consists of illuminated transparent works on plexi-glass that bring together abstract, organic-like motives and immaterial elements as light reflections, projections and shadows. Light-works, crystalline and bio-amorphous in form, refer to nature but rather than reproducing natural landscapes, they manifest the energetic mental, immaterial but nevertheless bodily constituted organic topologies.
