Nouvelles

Azul Gawianski and Manuela Ihan: “We think of architecture as an exchange”

The two architects behind the design of our Olivos showroom — the space where our pieces come to life. A conversation about city-making, using materials against the grain, and how colour builds an ...

Zaha Hadid: “If there are 360 degrees, why stick to one?”

Robust concrete that seemed to float like a feather in the air. The Iraqi-British architect never settled for any one angle — least of all ninety degrees. One of the women who inspire us.

Better in silence: eight libraries and museums where the quiet is the architecture

A library of 1.2 million books in Tianjin, a bookshop in Yangzhou with black mirror floors, a museum in Curitiba shaped like an eye. Eight buildings where silence is not an absence but the material...