Despite its name, the origin of minimalism as art and an aesthetic movement is anything but simple. Read here to learn about minimalism and its history.
Written by
Felicia Priedel
At the entrance to the small city of Brixen lies the headquarters of the Durst Group AG. Surrounded by green, wooded slopes, the spectacular new construction forms a gateway to the town and constitutes a reflection of the company.
Project name
Durst Group AG
Architecture firm
monovolume architecture + design
Location
Via Julius Durst, 4, 39042, Brixen, Italy
Photography
Luca Girardini, Paolo Riolzi, Nachbar Rolf
Principal architect
Patrik Pedó, Jury Anton Pobitzer
Design team
Federico Beckmann, Alessandro Sassi, Diego Preghenella, Giorgia Vernareccio, Barbara Waldboth, Silvio Grasso
Collaborators
KTB Engineering Design Group (Thermo-sanitary project), Hans Landmann (Façade planner), Pohl+Partner (Project manager)
Structural engineer
Kauer Ingenieure
Environmental & MEP
Von Lutz electrical and lighting projects (Electrical project)
Visualization
monovolume architecture+design
Typology
Commercial › Headquarters, Workspace
Eden House is an ambitious and innovative project that is about to set a new standard for sustainable luxury country houses in the UK. The technologies and knowledge acquired during the process will be shared with the local and national communities, setting a new standard for sustainable luxury private residences.
Architecture firm
WindsorPatania Architects
Location
Green Belt, near London, UK
Tools used
Autodesk 3ds Max, V-ray, Adobe Photoshop
Principal architect
Giovanni Patania
Visualization
Fares Issa, WindsorPatania Architects
Typology
Residential › House
Poetry Wine (Pinyin translation: Shijiu), the name of this restaurant, means picking up the taste of the old days. When we think about the old taste, we may recall the taste of home where we spent our childhood, with chimney, leaky roof, sunlight, leaves, silhouette.
Project name
Poetry Wine (Solana)
Architecture firm
LDH Architectural Design
Location
Solana, Chaoyang District, Beijing, China
Principal architect
Liu Daohua
Completion year
June 2021
Typology
Hospitality › Restaurant
A parametric system of 1 km wooden bars makes the pavilion flexible, easy-to-assemble and highly sustainable and recyclable. The concept of the shelter is further explored in our design process by finding inspiration in the aquatic animal species of the Sea urchins, or Echinoidea.
Architecture firm
GG-loop
Photography
Alice Turazza
Principal architect
Giacomo Garziano
Design team
Giacomo Garziano, Bogdan Chipara, Simone Piccolo, Mariam Sherif
Collaborators
Event by Interni Magazine
Structural engineer
Rubner Haus
Typology
Cultural Architecture › Pavilion, Installation for the Milan Design Week 2022
Plumbing issues are an inconvenient– sometimes disgusting– part of owning and maintaining a home. Some of these issues may be due to the regular wear and tear and aging that comes with using your plumbing fixtures. Others may be a result of how you use and maintain your system.
Written by
William Parkes
Photography
PV Productions
The project's starting point was the research into the meaning, usage, and features of a 21st-century library. Studio noa* reimagined it as a hub of creativity, aiming to create a stimulating environment for freeing the mind and acquiring new knowledge. As a prerogative, a relaxed and quiet atmosphere, as an added value, the possibility of moving i...
Project name
European Library of Information and Culture (BEIC)
Architecture firm
noa* network of architecture
Location
Porta Vittoria, Milan, Italy
Visualization
Dima Visualization
Client
International design competition held by the Municipality of Milan and the BEIC Foundation
Changping District is 30km to the north of Beijing, the scenery of which is completely different from that of an international city. KiKi ARCHi has completed a renovation project within 15 months there. Carrying the happy time of its owner’s childhood in the country, it seeks not the concrete object of memory, but the memory itself.
Architecture firm
KiKi ARCHi
Photography
Eiichi Kano, PRphoto
Principal architect
Yoshihiko Seki
Design team
Yoshihiko Seki, Saika Akiyoshi, Tianping Wang
Collaborators
Plant Design: WILD - SCAPE
Interior design
KiKi ARCHi
Civil engineer
Sun Corporation
Lighting
ChenYi Lighting. Co., Ltd.
Tools used
AutoCAD, Rhinoceros 3D, V-ray
Construction
Sun Corporation
Material
Micro cement-Gobbetto, Diatom mud-Shikoku, Kitchen-TJM kitchenhouse
Typology
Residential › House
Illyrius was born by the request for a high-density residential project just outside the first urban circle, on an empty lot on the Rruga Dritan Hoxha artery, which connects the city center to Tirana International Airport, and to the coast of the Adriatic Sea.
Architecture firm
GG-loop
Principal architect
Giacomo Garziano
Design team
Giacomo Garziano, Giulio Angeli, Matteo Bettoni, Bogdan Chipara, Gianmarco Daniele, Chelsea Fu, Rozhin Khani, Annika Kappner, Simone Piccolo
Typology
Residential › 500 apartments residential complex + commercial plinth
The site of the Emperor Hotel, Qianmen was once occupied by a public bath and so the spirit of bathing and mystery lives on in the new hotel. The design is organized not by spaces and circulation but by emotions and dreams; not by materials and details but by illusions and memories. From the l’Occitane Spa below ground to Beijing’s largest hotel ro...
Project name
The Emperor Hotel
Architecture firm
asap/adam sokol architecture practice
Photography
Jonathan Leijonhufvud
Principal architect
Adam Sokol
Design team
Adam Sokol, AIA, principal; Daymond Robinson, Gregory Serweta, Nicole Halstead, Nicole Lee, Ana Misenas
Lighting
Smith + Anderson
Material
Concrete, Brick, Glass, Metal
Typology
Hospitality › Hotel
