New Furniture Designs for Sawaya & Moroni / Zaha Hadid, Daniel Libeskind, Dominique Perrault
Revealed earlier this month in Milan, Sawaya & Moroni‘s New Collection 2011 includes pieces from high profile architects Daniel Libeskind, Zaha Hadid, and Dominique Perrault. William Sawaya and Paolo Moroni, founding partners of Sawaya & Moroni, focus the production of their furniture on contemporary designs intertwined with differing cultural backgrounds, resulting in unique pieces and a selective group of architects and artists.
Ben van Berkel of UNStudio also presented new furniture this month in Milan.
More about the chairs after the break.
New Seating Designs for Milan / UNStudio
This year, I Saloni of Milan will be celebrating its 50th year! The cultural institution has grown dramatically over the years from an initial 328 exhibitors featured in 11,000 square meters to over 2,500 in an area now measuring over 200,000 square meters. The Salone Internazionale del Mobile is almost here and several architects will be presenting new furniture. Ben van Berkel of UNStudio has shared three new seating designs that will be featured this month: My Lounge Chair for Walter Knoll, the New Amsterdam Chair for Wilde+Spieth and the SitTable for PROOFF. “The architectural approach to furniture is different from that of the industrial designer as the architect begins with the space and the environment that the chair will become a part of. All the details of the chair are considered for their spatial effects. This architectural approach to furniture is connected to a very personal ideology of space,” explained Ben van Berkel.
More about the chairs after the break.
Al Mercato / AMA – Albera Monti & Associati
Architects: AMA – Albera Monti & Associati: Giovanni Albera [Partner], Nicolas Monti [Partner],Rita Saragoça Saramago Silva Pereira
Location: Milan, Italy
Project area: 80 sqm
Photographs: Giuseppe Albera
Commercial Building Fratelli Cozzi Auto / Buratti+Battiston Architects
Architects: Buratti+Battiston Architects
Location: Milan, Italy
Project year: 2007 – 2009
Photographs: Buratti+Battiston Architects
Vetreria Airoldi / Buratti+Battiston Architects
Architects: Buratti+Battiston Architects - Gabriele Buratti, Oscar Buratti, Ivano Battiston
Location: Milan, Italy
Collaborators: Roberta Numi, Marco Viganò
Project area: 240 sqm
Photographs: Marcello Mariana
Audi In Milan / POINT
Architects: POINT
Location: Milan, Italy
Designers, architects and artists: Marco Verrando, Francesca Rossotti
Project year: 2010
Photographs: Eurostands SpA, UAU Office
Data Center In Milan / AMA – Albera Monti & Associati
Architects: AMA – Albera Monti & Associati
Location: Milan, Italy
Architectural Project Team: Giovanni Albera [Principal in Charge], Mirjana Rikalo (Project Director), Nicolas Monti [Principal], Luciano Miano, Marilena Giupponi, Roberta Bettinzoli, Claudia Cimadori, Valentina Nardini
M.E.P. Design: Varese Controlli (Dario Bellocchio, Carlo Ascoli)
Structural Design: Corrado Danzo
Developer and asst manager: InPartner
General Contractor: Cile
Project area: 20,000 sqm
Project year: 2008 – 2009
Photographs: Beppe Raso
Museum Building In Cormano / Area_Progetti
Architects: Area_Progetti
Design team: 5+1AA, area_progetti srl, Buonomoveglia srl, Studio Palterer
Location: Cormano, Milan, Italy
Structural engineering: Area_Progetti srl, Buonomoveglia srl
Mechanical & Electrical engineering: 2C Ingeneria srl, Torino
Contractor: Cooperativa di Costruzioni Lavoranti Muratori
Project area: 2,450 sqm
Project year: 2005 – 2010
Photographs: Laura Ceccarelli, Valentina Esposito
Cascina Merlata / Laurent Didier, Stefano Cerolini
Architects Laurent Didier and Stefano Cerolini shared with us their proposal Cascina Merlata, for a competition in Milan, Italy. More images and architect’s description after the break.
Google Offices in Milan / AMA – Albera Monti & Associati
Architects: AMA – Albera Monti & Associati
Location: Milan, Italy
Architectural Project: Giovanni Albera [Principal], Nicolas Monti [Principal]
Project Team: Nicolas Monti [Principal in Charge], Giovanni Albera, Rita Saragoça Saramago Silva Pereira
M.E.P.: Varese Controlli (Stefano Castellani)
General Contractor: ISG Italia
Project Area: approx. 1,800 sqm
Design Year: 2009
Construction Year: 2009 – 2010
Photographs: Bepe Raso
Vetreria Airoldi Office and Showroom / Buratti + Battiston
Our friends at Abitare published several works by Italian firm Buratti + Battiston, an architect and engineer, respectively. With a strong grasp of aesthetics as their foundation for creating spaces, their Vetreria Airoldi Office + Showroom works with the characteristics of colored glass to form a contemporary working space.
More images and more about the project after the break.
Video of CCCWall / Kengo Kuma
A month ago, we told you about CCCWall, an installation realized by Japanese architect Kengo Kuma at the important Milanese Fuorisalone 2010 event. Now, you can see a video of the installation.
CCCWall / Kengo Kuma
CCCWall is an installation realized by Japanese architect Kengo Kuma at the important Milanese Fuorisalone 2010 event. The installation is an anticipation of Kengo Kuma’s first actual architecture ever done in Italy, currently about to be completed near the headquarters of Casalgrande Padana, in Reggio Emilia, Italy.
More images and architect’s description after the break.
The Tasting Gloriette / Campana Brothers
The Milan Furniture Fair started last week and ends today. It is the most important design event of the year. During the event, Brazilian based Campana Brothers (Fernando & Humberto Campana) unveiled The Tasting Gloriette, a collaboration for Veuve Clicquot. The structure is a contemporary version of a gloriette for the residence’s garden.
Dedicated to outdoor tasting and champagne degustation, it will be on display at the Milan Furniture Fair until today at the Superstudio Piu – Via Tortona 27, Milano. More photos after the break.
Porta Volta Fondazione Feltrinelli / Herzog & de Mueron
Expected to be completed in 2013, Herzog & de Meuron’s new redevelopment project in Porta Volta, Milan will include the headquarters for the Fondazione Giangiacomo Feltrinelli. The Feltrinelli Group considers the site as an ideal environment for the foundation’s multiple activities and the overall masterplan for Porta Volta will consist of the Fondazione, two new office buildings, and a generous green area. “This undertaking by the Feltrinelli Group has an important urban dimension in that it strengthens and reinforces the city.”
More about the project and more images after the break.
AW10 Fashion Show / Aquili Alberg
Neil Barrett, presenting his Autumn-Winter 2010 collection on Sunday, January 17th, chose to collaborate for the first time with AquiliAlberg, a Milan-based architectural and design studio. The designer chose two of AquiliAlberg’s sculptural installations as a background for his latest fashion show.
Milan Expo 2015
The conceptual master plan for the Milan World Exposition 2015 resulted from the teamwork of five architects: Jacques Herzog, Mark Rylander, Ricky Burdett, Stefano Boeri, and William McDonough. Working with the theme “feeding the planet, energy for life”, the exposition will be a planetary botanical garden that will “feed Milan literally, spiritually and intellectually.” The architects created the framework for the exposition and organized an orthogonal bridge that contains an agrofood park and is surrounded by water ways.
More about the new concept after the break.
International Competition: Public Design Festival
On the occasion of the first edition of its Public Design Festival, esterni announces an international call for entries to search for ideas and projects for public spaces; among all submissions, 10 projects will be selected, carried out and presented during the festival, that will take place in Milan on April 18-26 2009. This unique opportunity to design a planned intervention on an urban parking area is open to different types of approaches, from community service to urban furniture.
Seen on Bustler. For more information about submission, go to the official website, here.
