Visual

Tomas Saraceno / On space-time foam

One Space Time Foam is the surprising installation presented by Tomás Saraceno atHangarBicocca, is a structure composed of three transparent films placed on different levels on which the public can move, interacting and giving shape to the work itself. The work will remain at HangarBicocca from 26 October 2012 to 03 February 2013. 

Update: the exhibition has been extended until February 17 2013

Design

Stefano Soave / dreary

"WATER IS PRECIOUS, SO DO NOT WASTE IT!" 

Design

andy Martin / Bike Thonet

At the end of 2010, the London designer Andy Martin It was contacted by THONET to design and develop a bike using their steam bending process developed in 1930. Andy Martin has developed three projects among which was selected as the final one you see in the pictures.

Green

Experience nature at its purest, lodging in a micro-hotel

DROP-IN by TRY, is one of the three winning projects of the design competition organized by Urban Square + o-cults and Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura (curator). It is a new concept of micro-hotel-architecture that responds to three principles: removable, organic, eco-friendly.

Architecture

The German Pavilion at the 1929 Barcelona Universal Exposition / Mies van der Rohe

For an inexperienced eye, how can it be that of a casual tourist, and already full of the wonders present in the city of Barcelona, ​​the little Mies Pavilion could remain undetected. Located in one of the most beautiful places in this city, with wide open spaces, green and extensive sports facilities, the neighborhood Montjuic, being in front of this small and square pavilion can surprise you. But if you delve into its true meaning the Pavilion that Ludwig Mies van der Rohe built for the Universal Exposition held in the Spanish city in 1929, is the third among the most emblematic works of the code-rationalist style, after the Bauhaus and Villa Savoye.