"All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he looked, he lived; and still, as he lived, he wondered."

“Abitare” di novembre

Dato che hanno preso la brutta abitudine di allegarci inutili opuscoli al solo scopo di chiudere la rivista nella plastica impedendo di sfogliarla e sul sito l’indice è solo parziale, riporto qui alcune parti dell’indice di Abitare di questo mese. Ma chi me l’ha chiesto non pensi che lo farò tutti i mesi, vero Marco?

Dunque…
News
– Doha, Museo d’Arte Islamica
– Nuotare a Montréal
– Italcement, TX active e…
– La casa trasformata
– Artigo in Corea
– Architettura internazionale per il premio del Chicago Athenaeum
– Arcult, architettura alla ribalta
– Architettura sostenibile premiata
– Modernismo al MARTa
– Il Museo Rodin in Brasile
– Arne Jacobsen a Berlino
– Roma, il palazzetto bianco (appunto in agenda: andare a visitarlo)
– Sofia, nuovo Cineplex
– European Heritage Awards (hanno premiato lo scempio di Mario Botta alla Scala dio non ci posso credere! n.d.sh.)
– Un premio per la Valle Bavona
– Ambienti per esistere
– IALD Awards 2006
– Cincinnati, centro sportivo dell’università
– Venini: tre pezzi per un anniversario
– Targetti, una nuova realizzazione
– Basilea, riapre Les Trois Rois
– Un premio per l’architettura del paesaggio
– Global Holcim Awards
– L.A. e Schindler
– Annual Exhibit Design Awards
– Kogler all’aeroporto di Vienna
– Uniting Piainting all’ONU
– Cinquant’anni inesauribili (di cosa? di Bisazza)

Arata Isozaki: Un anno con la XIV, di Paola Nicolin

Contract di Giorgio Bersano

• Hotel: le cose sono cambiate di Mia Pizzi, Marco Biagi
• Marco Piva: T Hotel, Cagliari e Hotel Casa Poli, Mantova
• Matteo Thun: Vigilius Mountain Resort, Lana
• Antonio Citterio: Bulgari Hotel & Resorts, Bali
• Fabio Novembre: UNA Hotel Vittoria, Firenze
• Ron Arad: DuoMo Hotel, Rimini
• Pamela Babey: Grand Hotel a Villa Feltrinelli, Gargnano
• Lissoni Associati: Mitsui Garden Hotel, Tokio
• Marc Newson, David Chipperfield, Arata Isozaki, J. Mariscal – F. Salas: Hotel Silken Puerta America, Madrid

Interni
• UdA – Nino, Manama City, Bahrain, di Marco Romanelli
• Lazzarini Pickering Architetti – rHome, Roma di Maria Giulia Zunino
• Digit&Associati – Ristorante Ciao, Fiera Milano di Michele Calzavara (detto così fa un po’ ridere, ma è un bel progetto n.d.sh.)
• Lissoni Associati – Showroom Tecno, Varedo di Maria Giulia Zunino
• Michele De Lucchi – Banca Intesa, Milano di Marco Biagi

Design
• Mario Bellini, Massimiliano Fuksas – HeadLine versus Bea di Marco Romanelli

Nautilus
• Alan Fletcher 1931-2006 di Italo Lupi
• Vico Magistretti 1920-2006. Perfeziona minga di Italo Lupi
•  Vico Magistretti: il design, l’architettura di Marco Romanelli, Beppe Finessi, Fulvio Irace
• Vico Magistretti – Museo Possibile 82 – Vidun di Beppe Finessi

Architettura
• BZA + Matteo Thun – Nuove Terme Merano di Anna Foppiano
• Ateliers Jean Nouvel – Musée du Quai Branly, Paris di Fulvio Irace
• Richard Meier & Partners – Museo dell’Ara Pacis, Roma di Claudia Conforti (bellissimo, andate a vederlo n.d.sh.)
• David Chipperfield Architects – Literaturmuseum der Moderne, Marbach am Neckar di Michele Calzavara
• Mario Cucinella Architects – Edificio eco-sostenibile ed eco-efficiente Italo-Cinese, Pechino di Maria Giulia Zumino
• Eugenio Bettinelli – San Clemente, Roma di Maria Giulia Zumino

Arte
• Jan De Cock – Arte, pensiero scomodo di Paola Nicolin

That’s all, folks. Guardate le foto del progetto di Jean Nouvel solo se non siete deboli di cuore (o di stomaco). In compenso, su The Architectural Review di ottobre trattava il tema "Culture in the city", parlando dell’orrore di Nouvel a Parigi, d’accordo, ma anche di Meier a Roma e dell’UN Studio a Stuttgard.

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