November 28

Digital Water Pavilion in Zaragoza

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The people of Expo Zaragoza were in good hands when they commissioned to Carlo Ratti Associati a pavilion for their Digital Mile. They came up with this Digital Water Pavilion, sitting next to Zaha Hadid’s brand new Expo-related bridge. The pavilion technology comes from no less than Boston’s MIT while the graphic design, landscape design and engineering converge from all over Europe (Milan, Paris, Madrid). Read more

November 27

Carsten Höller’s Double Club in London

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You might have missed the chance to slide down his installations at Tate or at the KW in Berlin, and most likely you won’t sleep in his Revolving Hotel Room at the Guggenheim, but this could be your chance to experience the newest and probably most subtle of Carsten Höller’s pieces. The artist is not new to an architectural approach, but this time he created (helped by professionals and by Fondazione Prada) a whole – temporary – club in London. He didn’t stop to decorating it with art pieces by famous artists (including Alighiero Boetti and Andy Warhol) and installing a revolving dance-floor, he made it congolese too. Or better, bi-cultural: while you can taste congolese food and beer, and listen to congolese music, there’s plenty of western stuff as well. The Double Club takes Rirkrit Tiravanija and makes it a lot hipper (or maybe posh, in this context). Here’s a video featuring interviews. Read more

November 26

Architecture Biennale: Emiliano Gandolfi’s Manifesto from the Arsenale’s Hall of Fame

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In a Venice Biennale rich in weak spots and contraddictions, the Italian Pavilion curated by the young Emiliano Gandolfi demonstrated a sharp vitality and gave the feeling of a research in progress. We would have liked the same radicality and the same curious freshness from the whole Biennale.
What follows is the “manifesto” written by Emiliano and exhibited in the Arsenale’s Hall of Fame.

Luca Molinari

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November 25

Venice Architecture Biennale ends and breaks visitors record

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This last Architecture Biennale has closed as the most successful ever:
- 129,323  visitors, with a daily average of 1,827 (total of last edition: 127,298);
- 2,360 accredited journalists (+20% on the preceding edition), 85 television channels from around the world;
- 910 articles published by periodicals throughout the world (793 in the preceding edition);
- a record number of National participations (56) and collateral events (24);
- 25,000 international guests from the world of architecture took part in the four days of inaugural vernissage. Read more

November 24

Chandigarh Heritage

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In the ’50s, it was the first Prime Minister of independent India, Jawaharlal Nehru, to give Le Corbusier the opportunity to put his modernist theories into practice by planning Chandigarh, the new capital of East Punjab. Read more

November 20

100 Years of Olivetti in Italy

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Olivetti has been one of the most notable examples of enlightened industrialism in Italy. Deemed “subversive” during fascism and politically active since the end of WWII, Adriano Olivetti (1901-1960) did not only achieve to expand the company his father Camillo had founded in 1908, but he proved a different kind of relationship between a competitive brand and the people working for it was possible. In Ivrea, the Olivetti employees had better assistance, homes and salary and the company’s influence on the city and its inhabitants was economical, social and architectural. Olivetti factories designed by Gian Antonio Bernasconi, Annibale Fiocchi, Marcello Nizzoli or Luigi Figini, Gino Pollini and Ignazio Gardella have entered architecure handbooks.

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November 20

Tenerife Arts Space by Herzog & De Meuron

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(photos © Federico Garcìa)

Spain: Herzog & De Meuron strike again. After the Caixa Forum in Madrid, here’s the second art-related project in one year. The swiss architects’ latest work has been unveiled just a few days ago in Tenerife, where it adhers to the rocky walls of Barranco de Santos, right next to the city’s historic core. Read more

November 18

Download Print-Quality Posters of WA Award Winners

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The World Architecture online community is giving awards to the most original and creative projects submitted by their users. Anybody can join and the selected project doesn’t necessarily need to be altready realized, meaning you can submit yours in time for the 3rd cycle deadline, that is Jan 23rd, 2009. In case you don’t have anything to submit, you can still download luxury high-definition posters to decorate your office or your room. The 1st cycle of awards winner are online here, and here are more information about the contest. Read more

November 17

Sant’Erasmo Water Depurator by C+S

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(text © C+S Associati; photos © Pietro Savorelli*)

Located in the Northern Lagoon Park north of Venice, on the southeastern edge of Sant’Erasmo island, the new water depurator is part of the general urban and environmental upgrading of the island that the Magistrato alle Acque di Venezia is implementing through the Consorzio Venezia Nuova, within the context of a programmatic agreement between the Magistrato alle Acque di Venezia, the Veneto Region and the Municipality of Venice.
The fragility of the island, its indefinite shores that change contours and thickness with the tide, the beautiful Austrian battery, trace of the more extensive system of fortifications that once existed in the lagoon, whose thick and solid walls leave a mark on the lagoonal landscape, the regular
division of the artichoke cultivations and the ghebi or internal canals design the landscape and the building becomes part of its character.
The theme of the project is the design of a ‘threshold space’, the point where the land and its ground comes to an end. Read more

November 14

Contemporary Architectural Photographs
Recent Works by Iwan Baan

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(all photos © Iwan Baan)

The brilliant dutch photographer Iwan Baan, whose pictures are published in prestigious magazines like Domus, Abitare, The New Yorker, New York Times, TIME magazine, A+U, ICON, MARK and FRAME, is now exhibiting some of his most recent works at the AA Gallery in London until December 10.

Yearbook 2008 features some of his photos of the colossal Steven Holl’s Linked Hybrid in Beijing. Check out some of his shots and, if you happen to be in London, don’t miss the exhibition! Read more

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