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The Plan 126 [11-2020]
The Plan 126 [11-2020]

Kimberly Dowdell | Zhu Pei | Ginzburg Architects | Benedetto Camerana (Camerana&Partners) | Archea Associati | deamicisarchitetti | Studio Architetto Mar | Pool Engineering | Galeazzo Architetti Associati | Iraci Architetti | Alvisi Kirimoto

Issue 126 of The Plan opens with an editorial by Kimberly Dowdell entitled “Designing for Life.” In it, she looks at how architecture is a fundamental ingredient for supporting both the environment and society’s most marginalized communities. Next, by reviewing several important examples, Michael Webb takes us on a tour through Moscow constructivism. This serves as an introduction to his look at the restoration of the Narkomfin Building by Ginzburg Architects. In our Design column, we look at Connected, a design challenge in which important designers worked remotely, basing their project on their experience with lockdown. The event was organized by the AHEC as part of 2020’s London Design Festival. The Interior column looks at a unique project by Benedetto Camerana in Turin, where open spaces and glazed surfaces have injected new life into Torre Littoria. China-based studio Zhu-Pei has designed a contemporary museum that references an ancient past to form a focal point for rebalancing all the different elements at work in its location. The Architecture section of this issue is entirely devoted to Italian architecture. Archea Associati has rethought the concept of the sports stadium, breathing new life into the architecture of Tirana in a polychromatic project that forms an urban-scale landmark. Following a painstaking design approach in which historical memory embraces the future, deamicisarchitetti has transformed the morphology of the historical balcony houses of downtown Milan into a more contemporary courtyard-style design. Studio Architetti Mar, Galeazzo Architetti Associati, and Pool Engineering collaborated on the project for Padua University’s new Polo Umanistico (Humanities hub), producing a design that, although poised between history and contemporaneity, maintains a formal and substantial compositional balance throughout. Rome- based studio Alvisi Kirimoto has put its name to a social housing development that harmonizes the urban macro-scale with the domestic micro-scale, all in the name of wellbeing and quality of life. Finally, with its elegant, sensitive reinterpretation of a historical Sicilian country home, Iraci Architetti has turned a restoration project into a work of art.

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Design for Life

Kimberly Dowdell

Kimberly Dowdell, President of the National Organization of Minority Architects, explains how architects can protect the health, safety and welfare of the people who experience their design efforts, which is everyone.
#Kimberly Dowdell 
#Editorial Critique
Imperial Kiln Museum

Zhu Pei

A tribute to China’s cultural heritage, Zhu Pei’s Imperial Kiln Museum is not only a local landmark for the city of Jingdezhen. It is also a striking example of contemporary Chinese architecture.
#China (1036)  #Exhibition (440)  #Zhu Pei 
#Letter from China
The Historic Importance of Moscow’s Constructivism

Ginzburg Architects

Renovating and repurposing the most adventurous buildings that survive from a decade of utopian dreams and political idealism in the Russian capital
#Duravit (123)  #Residence (1619)  #Russia (70)  #Ginzburg Architects 
#Highlights
Torre Littoria Residences

Benedetto Camerana (Camerana&Partners)

Benedetto Camerana’s design for luxury residences in Turin’s Torre Littoria takes its cue from the world of art to create privileged observation points over the city’s famous Baroque skyline.
#Italy (2889)  #Residence (1619)  #Graniti Fiandre (24)  #Fontanot  #Benedetto Camerana (Camerana&Partners) (11)  #Milano Contract District  #Woodco 
#Interiors
“Connected”

For the 2020 London Design Festival, AHEC invited nine international designers to develop “Connected”, an exhibition that reflect their personal experience during lockdown.
#United Kingdom (233)  #Ahec (40) 
#Design
National Stadium

Archea Associati

Architecture practice Archea as described by Valerio Paolo Mosco
#Iscom  #Sports complex (207)  #Archea Associati  #Schüco (146)  #Albania (18)  #FritsJurgens  #Lesko 
#Architecture
Canonica Residences

deamicisarchitetti

Apartment block on Via Canonica, Milan (Italy) – Deamicisarchitetti – innovation and conservation of a typical housing block in Milan
#Italy (2889)  #Residence (1619)  #Vimar (47)  #deamicisarchitetti 
#Architecture
Humanities Pole, University of Padua

Studio Architetto Mar | Pool Engineering | Galeazzo Architetti Associati

Designed by Paolo Portoghesi, Ruben Verdi (Pool Engineering), Giovanna Mar (Studio Architetti Mar), and Giorgio Galeazzo (Galeazzo Architetti Associati), Padua University’s Humanities Center (Padua, Italy) entailed the renovation of a historical convent to accommodate contemporary architecture additions that blend seamlessly with the series of ancient cloisters, and create new, technologically sustainable, urban spaces
#Italy (2889)  #University (228)  #Studio Architetto Mar  #Secco Sistemi (46)  #Velux (27)  #Fassa Bortolo (11)  #Schüco (146)  #Zumtobel Group (90)  #FAAC  #Pool Engineering  #Galeazzo Architetti Associati  #Carron Cav. Angelo 
#Architecture
Zash Country Boutique Hotel

Iraci Architetti

Located in rural Riposto (Catania, Sicily) in countryside between Mount Etna and the Ionian Sea, Design Hotel Zash was renovated and extended by Antonio Iraci and Carla Maugeri (Studio Antonio Iraci Architetti) in keeping with the elegant refinement of the original house.
#Italy (2889)  #Hotels (421)  #Iraci Architetti (32)  #Schüco (146) 
#Architecture
Viale Giulini Affordable Housing

Alvisi Kirimoto

Alvisi Kirimoto have designed a subsidized housing block in Barletta, southern Italy, combining excellent spatial and functional quality.
#Italy (2889)  #Mapei (140)  #Residence (1619)  #Mirage (13)  #Fassa Bortolo (11)  #Ariostea  #Alvisi Kirimoto (24) 
#Architecture
Il Parco dei Gelsi

Edoardo Milesi & Archos

Parco dei Gelsi is a new sustainable, multi-story residential complex created by LignoAlp using a design by Edoardo Milesi & Archos.
# Italy (3062)  # LignoAlp (22)  # Edoardo Milesi & Archos 
#Report
Shapes for Bathrooms

The geometric shapes underlying the various Duravit bathroom series guarantee versatility and pure, timeless design.
# Duravit (125) 
#Design
Waterline Club

Rockwell Group

Florim ceramic slabs were used for the interiors of the Waterline Club, an amenity club for residents of the Waterline Square development in New York.
# United States of America (637)  # Florim  # Rockwell Group 
#Report
Façade Performance and Aesthetics

Cosentino materials and surfaces give façades a spectacular look without compromising on performance.
# Cosentino (26) 
#Report
Habitaria

Arassociati

Margraf marble was at the heart of the project to upgrade the interiors and exteriors of Habitaria, a residential complex in the heart of Brera in Milan.
# Italy (3062)  # Arassociati  # Margraf (22) 
#Report
The Art and Passion of Wood Construction

Zitturi is a well-established craft joinery and furniture firm that designs and creates furniture, furnishings and surfaces for homes, businesses and the hospitality industry.
# Zitturi 
#Report
Covered Entrance at Veronafiere

Maffeis Engineering

Pichler Projects created the new roof for an entrance at Veronafiere, using a design by Maffeis Engineering and producing a steel structure covered in ETFE.
# Italy (3062)  # Maffeis Engineering  # Pichler projects (15) 
#Report
Italian Ceramics

The variety of colors and textures of ceramic tiles make it possible to clad any environment without restricting design creativity.
# Ceramics of Italy (24) 
#Design
Bocconi Campus

SANAA Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa

For the new Bocconi campus in Milan, Gualini created the building envelope
# Italy (3062)  # SANAA Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa (13)  # Gualini 
#Report
Timeless Shower Enclosures

duka has updated its historic Gallery 3000 collection of shower enclosures, adding improved equilibrium and aesthetic functionality to make the entire line more flexible and adaptable.
# Duka (11) 
#Design
Pool House

Studio Bertoni

This family villa emphasizes interior-exterior dynamics through the use of doors and windows with slender profiles from Edilpiù.
# Italy (3062)  # Edilpiù  # Studio Bertoni 
#Report
FINANSPARKEN

Helen & Hard e SAAHA

Mapei's products and solutions helped make the largest wooden building in Norway sustainable.
# Mapei (139)  # Norway (23)  # Helen & Hard e SAAHA 
#Design

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