Ai Weiwei at Galleria Continua and Tang Contemporary Art Center, Beijing

another intriguing massive solo exhibit by the great al weiwei. m.

for the first time in his life, chinese artist ai weiwei shows a solo exhibition in his home country, following the development of the project from conception to realization on site. curated by cui cancan and presented by galleria continua, the exhibit is spread across the gallery’s beijing space and the adjacent tang contemporary art center, crossing the wall that divides the two rooms. the body of work conceived for the two spaces represents an ambitious process that is emblematic of ai weiwei’s complex nature and personal history, as well as the key points around which his art revolves. in addition to an overarching social and political awareness, the work embodies a respect for the chinese tradition combined with the reinterpretation of ancient themes in a contemporary context.

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Univers Nuface by Adhoc Architectes

uber sharp minimalist design. m. | studio website +

Nuestro equipo ha diseñado un espacio luminoso, limpio y divertido. El reto era crear un nuevo espacio, con una imagen profesional e impecable y que a la vez transmitiera la extravagante personalidad del propietario de la clínica. Su deseo era construir una barra de dulces y embellecer el espacio con personajes de Star Wars.

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The 7th Room, Sweden by Snøhetta

awesome project in northern sweden m.

In the tall pine forest of Northern Sweden, where the tricolored tree trunks stretch up to the soaring crowns, a new addition to the renowned Treehotel has opened. Hovering ten meters above the ground within the tree canopy, the Snøhetta-designed 7th room provides its guests with a breathtaking view of the Lapland treetops and the Lule River. With focus on the surrounding nature, the design features large windows, a netted terrace suspended above the forest floor, and a tree stretching up through the cabin. The boundaries between indoors and outdoors are blurred, making the cabin part of the forest.

The 7th room experience begins when approaching the cabin from the forest. Nearing the base of the tree, the view of the complete cabin gradually recedes as a sixth façade appears. This façade is the bottom of the cabin, where a 12 x 8-meter surface is covered with a large black and white print of trees reaching up into the sky. A staircase brings guests from the ground and up into the cabin, along with a small lift for transporting luggage.

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Video — Book Mountain, Spijkenisse by MVRDV

wonderful library design in spijkenisse, south of rotterdam, by the dutch studio MVRDV. m.

“The library is composed out of offices and shops and theatres and rentable spaces, and if you stack them on top of each other you get this ziggurat, this kind of mountain,”

“You can walk from the bottom to the top, and in that way it becomes a public street that brings you from the plaza to the top of the mountain,” he says. “In the evening, when thousands of lights illuminate this mountain, you see it as an advertisement for the book and you’re eager to go into it.”

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