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 ...

At the 59th Venice Art Biennale, Italy presents an installation curated by Eugenio Viola and entitled ‘History of Night and Destiny of Comets’. For the first time, the Italian Pavilion presents the ...

Cross Laminated Timber, or CLT, is “the new kid in town” in the construction industry. Invented in Austria in the mid-1990s, this engineered timber is facing huge success and constantly growing ...

The necropolis “Banditaccia” in Cerveteri, near Rome, is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and the world’s largest Etruscan archaeological site. History and general description The necropolis is located ...

Absorbing Modernity 1914-2014 is an invitation to the national pavilions to show, each in their own way, the process of the erasure of national characteristics in architecture in favor of the almost ...

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 Pavilion Zero, located close to the EXPO 2015 site’s main entrance, features some of the themes which form the “backbone” of the Milan world exposition: the history of the relationship between ...

If you wonder what most people intended a “futuristic” computer to look like in the late ’70s, this little-known Dutch PC can give you an answer: it had to be something you could expect to see in the ...

The German Pavilion at the EXPO 2015, in Milan, is entitled Fields of Ideas. On a floor area of 4,933 square meters, the pavilion presents various themes related to the sustainable use of natural ...

A Commodore PET 2001-8; photo CC BY-SA 2.0 FR by Rama & Musée Bolo via Wikipedia Commons. Indeed, many elements of this famous late-70s PC were somewhat inspired by A Space Odyssey‘s infamous thinking ...

The S. R. Crown Hall is a landmark building designed by architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe in the early 1950s for the Illinois Institute of Technology Campus in Chicago. Despite not being the first to ...