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 ...

Recently, at an exhibition in Milan, I had the rare occasion to see a restored version of the famous Maison Bulle (The Bubble House) designed by French architect Jean-Benjamin Maneval in the early ...

While approaching the Tate Modern after crossing the Thames by the Millenium Bridge, a visitor can hardly imagine what is currently happening behind the glorious former Bankside Power Station which is ...

With his “The Walk” (La passeggiata) Michele de Lucchi invites us to a different vision of working through a “peripatetic” meditation around the workspace. “Around” is a pertinent word, because this ...

Tate Modern is a museum of modern art in London, part of the Tate network together with Tate Britain, Tate Liverpool, and Tate St. Ives. Located on the southern embankment of the River Thames in the ...

The Nikolaj Kunsthal is a contemporary art center housed in the former Church of St. Nicholas in central Copenhagen, Denmark. The St. Nicholas Church is a late-Gothic style building whose origins date ...

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 ...

A necklace by Japanese jewelry designer Eriko Unno, made by skilfully intertwining audio cassette magnetic tape and gold leaf. Photo © E. Unno Design: recycling vs ...

The Castelvecchio Museum (Italian: Museo di Castelvecchio) in Verona is an art museum housed in an imposing medieval fortress in the city center and not far from the Arena amphitheater. Building and ...

The response of Argentina to the theme proposed by the Venice Architecture Biennale’s curator Alejandro Aravena, “Reporting from the Front”, is different from that of any other national pavilion.