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Spanish tile design

Spanish manufacturer Onix is one of the world's largest producers of glass mosaic tiles - and uses only recycled glass in its production. With Icon Mirage and Icon Limitless, the company is expanding its 2025 programme with new products for bathrooms and swimming pools.

Regional building culture

The best buildings in Italy's northernmost region: the successful exhibition in Merano and a brilliant new book document the impressive balance of contemporary regional building culture in South Tyrol.

A different kind of greenhouse 

In Puerto Escondido, on Mexico's Pacific coast, the architecture firm CCA has built a wooden pavilion that doubles as a place of contemplation and orchid cultivation. 

Experimentation with space

In Geneva, Bureau have transformed a former dental practice into an experimental sequence of spaces that tests the possibilities of apartment design and functionality. 

A collage of old and new

The former Kunsthaus Tacheles [Eng.: Art House Tacheles] has been redesigned by Studio Aisslinger. It is now home to the Fotografiska Museum and features spaces for exhibitions, events and gastronomy.

Stairs and colourful boxes

In collaboration with Tirana’s IRI Architecture studio, MVRDV have transformed a monument to Communist dictatorship into a welcoming, democratic place for the denizens of the Albanian capital.

A wooden structure with straw-bale insulation

This single-family home in Dueville was inspired by a Renaissance villa – apart from its construction of wood and straw-bale insulation.

Restoration and renovation

The Palazzo dei Diamanti, a Renaissance masterpiece in Ferrara, is again accessible to the public following its painstaking restoration and renovation by the Labics architecture studio (Maria Claudia Clemente and Francesco Isidori).

Flexible spaces

This new building with a large, planted atrium offers flexible spaces, particularly for spin-offs of the Delft University of Technology.

Flexible Elements

The new structure built for the Czech modular-building company Koma Modular illustrates the flexibility now offered by prefabricated steel constructions.

A rich variety of natural-stone facades

With their river shrine in the State of Gujarat, the architects have combined traditional stone building with expressive symbolism.

Collective design for a new village centre

The school complex at Lake Geneva is the result of a joint project by three up-and-coming architectural practices. Atelier PNG, Julien Boidot and Emilien Robin designed a complex made up of six buildings that forms a focal point in the fragmented village structure.

Exhibition

Until 2 October 2022 the Museo del Novecento, located by the Piazza Duomo, will be showing 350 objects by Milanese architect Aldo Rossi.

Inspired by pre-hispanic architecture

For a private client, Soler Orozco Arquitectos have created a pyramid-shaped spa with unmistakable touches of the region’s historical places of worship.

Pyramids for water resources management

3 ME Arquitectura has built an archetypal complex reminiscent of traditional farming buildings in Salvatierra, central Mexico.

Iván Bravo finds room for four bedrooms and a living area on a mere 111 square metres of space at a weekend house on Chile’s Pacific coast.

Iván Bravo finds room for four bedrooms and a living area on a mere 111 square metres of space at a weekend house on Chile’s Pacific coast.