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Restart and trend analysis
In a surreal year marked by the health emergency, the world of design, like all other sectors, is looking for answers to understand how to face the new phase that we have in front of us, which will certainly bring with it considerable changes in consumer habits . However, we believe that the predictive analysis of trends will always remain the compass for the prudent marketing choices that companies will have to make. At the beginning of this 2020 and before the global ..
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Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara win the Pritzker Architecture Prize 2020
Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara, co-founders of Grafton Architects, won the Pritzker Architecture award for 2020. Farrell and McNamara were honored "both for the integrity of their approach to buildings and for the way they run their business," said the jury of the Pritzker Architecture Prize. For the first time, the award goes to Ireland, although the fourth winner - Kevin Roche - is originally from that country. For the fourth and fifth time, the prestigious prize was..
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Arata Isozaki is the Pritzker Prize 2019
Arata Isozaki wins the 2019 Pritzker Architecture Prize, which will 'fly' to Japan for the eighth time since its foundation 40 years ago. Born in 1931, Isozaki is originally from Ōita, in the north-east of the Japanese island of Kyushu. Japanese architecture still winning After awarding the prestigious Pritzker Prize, considered by many as the "Nobel Prize for architecture”, to the Indian architect Balkrishna Doshi in 2018, the international jury decided to honour Arat..
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Architect Ishigami’s Serpentine Pavilion 2019
For 19 straight years now, the Serpentine Gallery – one of the most renowned modern and contemporary art showcases in London – has appointed a world famous architect to design the Serpentine Pavilion, a temporary summer pavilion that is renewed every year at Kensington Gardens, London. There is just one requisite for the position, namely that the architect has never implemented any projects in the United Kingdom. So who is the architect of the Serpentine Pavilion 2019? J..
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Camille Walala, the Anglo-French tribal pop graphic designer
We have been saying for some time now that one of the most fashionable design trends this year is the use of colours that are vivid, joyful and loud, and put together in unusual combinations. This trend has its roots in the style and culture of Africa that has attracted so much interest from designers all over the world in recent years. In fact, at the most recently visited exhibitions, Africa turned out to be one of the most popular themes on show (for example, the Salon..
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The Serpentine Pavilion by Frida Escobedo: history, aesthetics and functionality
With the Pritzker 2018 Award assigned to Balkrishna Doshi, who we talked about in our previous article, we remain in the world of architecture where another key event is awaited: the inauguration of the Serpentine Pavilion in London, set to take place on 15th June 2018. For 18 straight years now, the Serpentine Gallery – one of the most renowned modern and contemporary art showcases in London – has nominated a world famous architect to design the Serpentine Pavilion, a te..
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2018 Pritzker Prize goes to Balkrishna Doshi, Indian architect of the Le Corbusier school
The 2018 Pritzker Prize has been awarded to Balkrishna Doshi, the first Indian architect to receive this highly prestigious accolade in the world of architecture. The nomination of Balkrishna Doshi, who will officially receive the award on 16 May 2018 in the splendid setting of the Aga Khan Museum in Toronto, proved to be unexpected and comes in what will be a particularly important edition for the Pritzker Prize – the fortieth. In “contention” with Doshi for the 201..
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Robert Wilson for Villa Panza – Tales: slow-moving art
The exhibition Robert Wilson for Villa Panza - Tales, hosted in the splendid location of Villa Panza in Varese, was supposed to end on October 15th but thanks to the incredible success (more than 60,000 visitors), the FAI - Fondo Ambiente Italiano - who collaborated on organizing the event, decided to extend it for 4 months more. The closing of the Robert Wilson exhibition is scheduled for March 4, 2017 and it is still destined to amaze the public, thanks to a s..
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Frank Gehry: architecture and well-being
"Being optimistic, believing in the future". Frank Gehry can certainly be considered the starchitect of positivity and optimism, a theme that after a careful trendwatching analysis, we chose for our stand at Cersaie 2017. The soft, harmonious and "dancing" shapes of his architectural creations can only make us think of a genius who draws inspiration from everything that is positive, optimistic and reminds us of wellness. We have already addressed the theme of starchitects ..
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Trendwatching with the archistars
Tosilab's year-round trendwatching entails continuous, careful observation of every detail - visual, cultural and many other aspects - and aims to intercept trends where they are born and developed. Moreover, observing the trends and innovations that key figures in the field of architecture - the so-called archistars - propose in their works, is an essential trendwatching activity. But what is an archistar? Who are the most recognised international archistars? What does ..
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