Articles by eleonora usseglio prinsi

The following three proposals carefully investigate modern domestic functions, maximizing the utilit y of each space.

After being freshly appointed with the Golden Lion award at last year’s Venice Architecture Biennale , South Korea has become one of the architecture scenes to keep an eye on. The politically ambitious project Crow’s Eye View, presented at the Korean Pavilion in Venice, aimed to ”demonstrate the potential of an unified Korea by bringing together…

In his chef d’oeuvre The Poetics of Space, Gaston Bachelard explores the innate psychological connection between our childhood home and the house of our dreams: “Sometimes the house of the future is better built, lighter and larger than all the houses of the past, so that the image of the dream house is opposed to…

“Geologists talk about the age where we are living as Anthropocene… this idea that we are livi ng in a time where human presence is the strongest force of change.” So says Bjarke Ingels, enfant prodige of contemporary architecture — borrowing the words of a scientific community that has yet to reach a consensus on when…

“The unhappy city contains a happy city unaware of its own existence,” wrote Italo Calvino in his ma sterpiece Invisible Cities. Beyond designing the Ecole Normale Supérieure Cachan in Paris and the Columbia University Campus Plan in New York City, architect Renzo Piano has spent last year looking for fragments of happy cities around Italian suburbs…

During my first year of university, one of my professors said that you can easily recognize an archi tect on the street because he is the one who always looks up to see how the building ends. I recognized myself in this behavior, beyond the compulsion to knock walls and brush surfaces everywhere I am. But…

Fashion Week is in full swing in Milan, long a capital of both haute couture and high design. The tw o worlds intersect in the eclectic and variegated interiors of the labels’ flagship stores — architecture may not be subject to the biannual cycles of fashion, but it certainly goes a long way toward complementing the…

Just seven months after a fire that destroyed part of Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s eponymous bu ilding the Glasgow School of Art has announced the shortlist of five firms selected to lead the restoration of the masterpiece built between 1897 and 1909 by the Scottish architect. Via The Daily Mail The prestigious list includes Avanti Architects, John…

Shipping container architecture is not new in London. A pair of now-iconic projects demonstrate how the modules can be configured: Boxpark in Shoreditch has been the world’s first ‘pop-up’ mall, while Container City was the first of a series of successful projects to house apartments and offices like the BBC Broadcasting Studios. In the kingdom…