Merging Spaces

By Smita Singh

Photography: Luca Morandini; courtesy the architect

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Few architects are able to dramatically merge spaces, but Alberto Apostoli struck gold when he was asked to design a Spa for the Poiano Resort. The project was unique from the start, and manifested the language of an extraordinary territory...

Hanjie Wanda Square – Luxury Shopping Mall

By Team IAnD

Photography: Edmon Leong; courtesy UN Studio

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Six months after the Pixel Box Cinema, Wuhan, China gets its next futuristic big-wig in terms of Hanjie Wanda Square - a luxury shopping plaza by UN Studio…

Drees & Sommer Headquarters, Stuttgart

By Team IAnD

Photography: Zooey Braun;courtesy Ippolito Fleitz Group

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Ippolito Fleitz Group design a ‘non-territorial office’ befitting a contemporary working environment in which flexible working hours, attendance times, as well as fluctuating team sizes, have become commonplace...

The MuCEM - Monumental Design

By Marina Correa

Photography:  Lisa Ricciotti; courtesy the architects

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The Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilizations (MuCEM) is a cube of lacy concrete that precariously lies at the tip of the Mediterranean Sea in Marseille, France. Designed by French architect Rudy Ricciotti, the institution is an ode to the culture of that very sea…

Volcanopark Visitor Centre, Hungary

By Viktoria Szepvolgyi

Photography: Tamas Bujnovszky; courtesy Foldes Architects

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The iconic Kemenes Volcanopark Visitor Centre, 200 km west of Budapest, is an eye-catching testimonial to a country that used to be volcanic some 5 million years ago...

Guggenheim Lab - do 100 words make cities?

By Jigna Padhiar

Photography: Courtesy the BMW Guggenheim Lab

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Two years, three cities, 100 words. The BMW Guggenheim Lab in its round up of two years, highlights 100 ideas/terms that cities are grappling with...

Heydar Aliyev Centre, Azerbaijan

Info & Photography: Zaha Hadid Architects

Photopher: Hufton+Crow

Baku’s Heydar Aliyev Centre is a national symbol for Azerbaijan, a catalyst for regeneration, and, in the broadest sense, a regional showpiece.  IAnD makes an exception by bringing you a much lengthier feature with substantial details of this superlative project...