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01 Junya Ishigami

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House & Restaurant . Yamaguchi

Junya Ishigami + Associates

The project is a residence/restaurant for a French restaurant owner. He is an old friend of mine, and he was the one who commissioned the Tables for a Restaurant. I was asked to design a building as “heavy” as possible. “I want an architecture whose heaviness would increase with time,” he said. “It cannot be artificially smooth but rather something with the roughness of nature. Authentic cuisines require such a place.” He also told me that “it has to look as if it has been there and will continue to be there for the longest time.” His idea was to create a brand-new long-established restaurant. He was longing for something that is both a house and a restaurant, something he could pass on to his children and grandchildren. Now, he invites guests to the restaurant as he would invite friends to his house, and with someone special, he would let them into the living room or even stay overnight. When the restaurant is closed, the hall serves as a place for the family to spend time or for the children to study. The plan is arranged with the restaurant on the north and the residence on the south. To go back and forth between the spaces, they can walk through any one of the three courtyards that separate them. Continue reading 01 Junya Ishigami

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02 AMAA

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Threshold and Treasure . Arzignano

AMAA

‘Threshold and Treasure’ questions the role of threshold and treasure in the field of art, architecture and, more specifically, galleries as places of display.

It is about the incredible opportunity to generate a mechanism, as philosopher and writer Giorgio Agamben might say, that is able to unhinge, in a certain way, the difficult approach to art, characterized by a threshold which is perceived as hardly accessible by masses. This detachment, even if it is mainly mental, puts people in a state of uneasiness when confronted to the idea of a world so deep and so rooted that it seems unreachable to many, to those who do not normally deal with culture, to those who do not consider themselves as “educated” enough to have access to such beauty and such intensity of meaning. Continue reading 02 AMAA

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03 MANSILLA + TUÑÓN

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LA GALERÍA DE LAS COLECCIONES REALES . Madrid

MANSILLA + TUÑÓN ARQUITECTOS . fotos: © Luis Asín

La Galería de Colecciones Reales continúa el basamento del Palacio Real, construyendo un espacio lineal que sigue las trazas del propio palacio, dibujadas en el siglo XVIII por Giovanni Battista Sacchetti, y contribuyendo al remate del paisaje histórico, natural-artificial, de la cornisa poniente de Madrid. Continue reading 03 MANSILLA + TUÑÓN

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04 SANAA

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sydney modern project

SANAA

The Sydney Modern Project is a once-in-a-generation transformation of the 151-year-old Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, creating an art museum campus comprising two buildings connected by an Art Garden on Gadigal Country overlooking Sydney Harbour. The centerpiece of the Sydney Modern Project is a new building designed by Pritzker prize-winning architects Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa / SANAA. Continue reading 04 SANAA