April 30

Green Platform exhibition + installation in Florence

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FUTUREFARMERS – Victory Garden – Trike, 2008
mixed media installation – Courtesy of the artist

GREEN PLATFORM – Art Ecology Sustainability
24 April – 19 July 2009

curated by Lorenzo Giusti and Valentina Gensini

Centro di Cultura Contemporanea Strozzina – Palazzo Strozzi, piazza Strozzi, Florence

Artists

Alterazioni Video, Amy Balkin, Andrea Caretto e Raffaella Spagna, Michele Dantini, Ettore Favini, Futurefarmers, Tue Greenfort, Henrik Håkansson, Katie Holten, Dave Hullfish Bailey, Christiane Löhr, Dacia Manto, Lucy + Jorge Orta, Julian Rosefeldt, Carlotta Ruggieri, Superflex, Nicola Toffolini, Nikola Uzunovski

Green Platform takes a complex critical view designed to examine at stake in an interdisciplinary fashion the issue of the environment in the dual sense of a crisis in our thermo-industrial society based on non-renewable sources of energy and of an ecological crisis caused by pollution and by the worrying overheating of our planet. Read more

April 30

Call for projects: Spa, Loft, Renovation

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Architects of the world: we’re searching for you. We’re always looking for projects, but this time we’re selecting the best contemporary results in the following categories:

Spa
Loft
Renovation

So, in case you have some in your portfolio, submit all the related materials – text and as many photos as you have – to info@yskira.com. We’ll get in contact with you wherever you are to tell you what’s brewing.

April 29

The pixelled city vision. Site specific project by photographer Massimiliano Foscati

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Foscari catalogue cover

The main subject of Massimiliano Foscari’s photography is the urban landscape, not in a verist nor in a simple descriptive language, but through its “pixelled” synthesis. In this site-specific exhibition, hosted at Galleria Manzoni until June 6, the author shows eleven of his photos of Bergamo in different sizes, his perspective on the city’s urban texture and its natural environment.

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April 29

Winner announced for the EU Prize For Contemporary Architecture – MIES VAN DER ROHE AWARD 2009

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Norwegian National Opera & Ballet, Oslo by Snøhetta – Photo © Jiri Havran

The European Commission and the Fundaciò Mies van der Rohe announced today that the Norwegian National Opera & Ballet, Oslo, Norway by Snøhetta is the winner of the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award 2009.
The Jury also awarded the Emerging Architect Special Mention to STUDIO UP/ Lea Pelivan and Toma Plejic, STUDIO UP for Gymnasium 46° 09′ N / 16° 50′ E, Koprivnica, Croatia. Read more

April 28

YSkira on Twitter + improved feed

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As some of you might have noticed, a Twitter icon has recently appeared on our right sidebar. That’s right, you can now follow our twits, as well as our posts and bookmarks.

And I have more news about that: after spending some time juggling with feeds on Yahoo Pipes, I achieved creating a single feed gathering ALL our updates on all the three platforms. What does this mean to you? First, you don’t need to subscribe to this new feed if you already get our old one via Feedburner, since I updated it to give you the pipe I made. In case you’re not familiar with RSS and stuff like that, just know that by clicking on our feed icon, from now on, you’ll get everything you need (new posts, bookmarks and Twitter activity) all packed in one stream. In case you’re an old subscriber, just enjoy the considerably bigger amount of news you’ll get from us next time you open your RSS reader.

April 28

Domus # 924 is out, with Salone and Fashion Week updates

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(Text by Angelica Di Virgilio)

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Domus feautures the faces of crises. April cover by Onlab.
An Indian Miner protecting himself. Picture by Nicolas Bourquin
(Hindoli, december 2008, Rajasthan, India)

Domus Magazine’s web tv has been – and still is – one of the best sources for hot news and precious info on this year’s Salone del Mobile. From Paul Smith to Ronan Bouroullec, through artist Steven Burks and Gaetano Pesce, Domus editorial has met and interviewed the protagonists and you – who maybe missed this acrobatic Salone – have the chance to take a look at some of the projects and find out the current design trends just unveiled in Milan.
Domus, the April issue, is precisely the first of two twin issues devoted to the two big events occurred this month: Salone del Mobile and Milan Fashion Week – in times of economic slump. Read more

April 27

Thanks

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As a young blog (six months, which is little more than a child in blog-years) we’re particularily happy when we see signs of appreciation coming from “older brothers”. Just like Archidose and Things Magazine did back at our very beginning, Pruned has recently listed us in a link post about new blogs dealing with architecture and related issues. We can’t but thank them. And, of course, also all the others who’ve been reading us, listing us in their blogrolls or linking to our articles.

April 27

Reflexe der Moderne

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Here’s something all of you guys in Turin should check out (and the others might also consider visiting, depending on their reach). The travelling exhibition Reflexe der Moderne – Thoughts and positions of Contemporary Architecture in Germany is opening today. The show will be hosted by the exhibition area of the Faculty of Architecture at the Politecnico di Torino (Castello del Valentino) in the Valentino’s Castle (“Sala delle Colonne”) until May 8.

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April 24

Mañanarama

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Where’s Mario Ballesteros has just started a new blog. Mañanarama will focus on “failed development, bogus modernization, and other urban or architectural dreams deferred”. Even though Mexico will be the main object of his analysis, the author will “probably indulge in the occasional musing on (pan)americana, mid-century manias, tercermundismo or just random mexotica”. Read more

April 23

New church in Foligno by Massimiliano and Doriana Fuksas + event

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Right in these sad times after the latest tragic earthquake-related disaster in Italy, some news come from another site, previously destroyed by another earthquake in 1997. The new church in Foligno by Massimiliano and Doriana Fuksas sits right where one of the old container camps providing shelter to the homeless of the central-italian town used to be, and is meant to be a sign of hope for the area.
The building’s opening is tomorrow and three days of conferences and debate with the architects will follow. Below are the details of both the project and the events.
(Text by Fuksas Studio and photos by Moreno Maggi) Read more

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