Daniel Libeskind is one of the most culturally multifaceted contemporary architects. Though the general public knows him mostly for his Jewish Museum in Berlin and the (unfortunately unbuilt) design ...
Designed by Alvar and Aino Aalto in 1929, the Sanatorium of Paimio, Finland, is widely regarded as the first example of modern architecture applied to healthcare. Sanatorium is a Latin word commonly ...
These days, Italy is not particularly renowned for its consumer electronics products; yet, there was a time, in the ’60s, when an Italian company was reputed to be the “European response” to American ...
The Bosco Verticale / Vertical Forest high-rise complex in Milan, view from the Porta Nuova Gardens looking west. Photo © Riccardo Bianchini / Inexhibit The Vertical ...
A Commodore PET 2001-8; photo CC BY-SA 2.0 FR by Rama & Musée Bolo via Wikipedia Commons. Indeed, many elements of this famous late-70s PC were somewhat inspired by A Space Odyssey‘s infamous thinking ...
Cross Laminated Timber, or CLT, is “the new kid in town” in the construction industry. Invented in Austria in the mid-1990s, this engineered timber is facing huge success and constantly growing ...
The Canadian Museum for Human Rights (CMHR) is a museum in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, dedicated to the basic rights belonging to every human being. Opened in 2014, the museum is housed in an iconic ...
The oldest public museums opened in Italy during the Renaissance. The Capitoline Museum and the Vatican Museums are perhaps the first institutions that we could call “museums”, although they were not ...
The HEART Herning Museum of Contemporary Art is an art center located in the city of Herning, in the Jutland peninsula, Central Denmark. The museum, founded in 1977, is housed since 2009 in an iconic ...
Once the seat of a working-class cooperative in Barcelona’s Sants neighborhood, just west of Placa d’Espagna, the Lleialtat Santsenca is a 19th-century building that has been restored and converted ...
The Allmannajuvet Zinc Mine Museum is an industrial archaeology museum – sited in the municipality of Sauda, southern Norway – designed by renowned Swiss architect Peter Zumthor. Part of the Norwegian ...
When looking at the museum plans, it becomes evident why Libeskind entitled his entry “Between the Lines”. Two lines, one zigzagging and the other completely straight, cross one another five times; ...