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Designed by Italian architect Simone Micheli, The i-SUITE Hotel interior architectural plan lies its foundations in the concept of modern luxury developed after a thorough and targeted thinking. During the “XXX Congreso Colombiano de Arquitectura” ( 30th Colombian Architecture Convention) which took place in Barranquilla (Colombia) in 2007 Micheli asserted: ” …the new luxury does not mean immobility or habit, but rather freedom and movement. It is a light and a stirring thought, at any moment we are able to choose where and how to live and to reinvent the environment we live in.”

“As for architecture the new luxury is related to the idea of regaining the beauties and the truth of our daily life together with our inner feelings. It is more connected with vacuums than with plenums, more with mind than with body. It does not mean opulence but rather transparency. I am talking about possible places where yours and our histories are echoing in the shape of visual, olfactory, tactile and auditory essence. I am telling you a story which has its roots in the past and in the tastes of exotic places but at the same time it is near and next future oriented.”

 

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Opening on April 24th is the new parish designed by Massimiliano Fuksas located in San Paolo, Italy. Two main architectural elements are identified with the functions of the religious center, first, the church building, consists of two rectangles inserted into one another, the second element, also rectangular shape but long and low, is home to the sacristy, the pastoral ministry of local and casa canonica. The project total area is 20.690 m2.

Spirituality and meditation are joined together in a play of natural light entering horizontally and vertically, drawing a dialogue with the sky. – ‘The suspension of a volume within another. seeing through concrete heaven, from outside, to inside, to outside.’ Says Fuksas.

 

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Designed by Herzog & Meuron, Prada’s Tokyo “epicenter”, in the fashionable Aoyama district, is the company’s second radical approach to fashion-store architecture, following Rem Koolhaas’ flagship store in New York. The intent is “to reshape both the concept and function of shopping, pleasure and communication, to encourage the meshing of consumption and culture.”

The Tokyo store is a strikingly unconventional 6-story glass crystal that is soft despite its sharp angles – as a result of its five-sided shape, the smooth curves throughout its interior, and its signature diamond-shaped glass panes, which vary between flat, concave and convex “bubbles”.

 

Prada: Aoyama Omotesando, Tokyo, Japón.