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Friday Y and I go to see Andy Warhol at the Dalles Hall. “Sure, come in, it’s on the first floor, but the boy at the cafeteria is out and he’s the one with the keys. But I can switch on the lights so you can get a glimpse.

Thirty years after Luigi Snozzi’s interventions in Monte Carasso, a small municipality in Ticino, Switzerland, these continue to testify to the relevance of his compromise-free, contextual and sustainable critical regionalism.

PZP Arhitectura managed to appropriate a standard program in order to create a building with urban potential whose image visibly clashes with the uniformity of the immediate context.

While chatting recently with a client, he asked me how I saw myself as a professional, if I thought I was an engineer or an artist. I must admit I have not wondered about the genus proximus for a long time. An architect is an architect. He does things that are different from the one and the other at the same time.

Two interior designs done in collaboration by SKBD and Lundi et Demi prove the value of hybridization of architecture and object design.

Here I am, ears’ dropping to a conversation that takes place in the market. A woman who sells chestnuts tells the young man patiently waiting for the chestnuts to roast that she too just returned from Italy. She goes on explaining that he would better go visit the modern art museum.

The winner of Mies van der Rohe Prize in 2009, the Norwegian Snøhetta team, has imagined the volumetric shape of the Oslo Opera House as a manmade geography that can be both climbed or used as representative public space.

Not that long ago, just last October the Holocaust Monument was inaugurated in Bucharest. Peter Jacobi, a Romanian born sculptor who lives in Germany for the moment, has come up with an interesting concept.  In fact, the site is almost empty, and thus you get the sense of disappearance; moreover, the place gives you the creeps.

The long restoration of Neues Museum in Berlin is proof of the craftsmanship and professional maturity of two important personalities on the international stage: David Chipperfield and Julian Harrap.