Winners Announced for 13th Saint-Gobain International Gypsum Trophy

Every two years, starting in 1998, the Saint-Gobain International Gypsum Trophy has awarded the most recent developments for quality craftsmanship in drywall systems and plastering. This year, the 13th edition of the Gypsum Trophy took place in Athens on April 28th, 2023. From the Americas to Asia, from Europe to Africa, 73projects from 27countries competed in six categories to win one of the 15prizes of the competition.

Tadao Ando Designs the Exhibition “Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Beauty” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Architect Tadao Ando has been commissioned to design this year’s Costume Institute exhibition highlighting the work of Karl Lagerfeld. The opening of the exhibition titled “Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Beauty” was marked by the world-renown Met Gala, a fundraising event attended by celebrities and personalities perceived to be culturally relevant in the fashion scene. Perceived as a thematic and conceptual essay on Lagerfels’s work, rather than a traditional retrospective, the exhibition aims to illustrate the designer’s method of creative expression and its significance in the industry.

Fondazione Luigi Rovati / Mario Cucinella Architects

The seven-year project for the Fondazione Luigi Rovati marks the completion of the renovation and remodeling of Milan’s 19th Century Palazzo Bocconi-Rizzoli-Carraro by Mario Cucinella Architects. The wholly new underground galleries of the Foundation’s Etruscan collection are at the core of this innovative addition to the city’s cultural and civic life at 52 Corso Venezia. In addition to the Etruscan galleries, the Fondazione Luigi Rovati’s art museum houses two floors of exhibition space, conservation facilities, an archive, a study room connected with the Luigi Rovati Foundation Library in Monza, and event rooms, a bookshop, a café as well as a restaurant on its top floor.

Take Off Your Shoes: 5 Floors to Experience Barefoot

The skin absorbs matter, and the world is contemplated, touched, heard, and measured through our bodily existence. Juhani Pallasmaa, a Finnish architect known for propagating sensory architecture, defends the notion that, unlike vision, touch is the sense of proximity, becoming a main axis by covering the entire body. It is a fact that, when speaking of touch, the first image that comes to mind is usually contact with hands. However, there are other ways to feel architecture that can be developed in projects, such as the touch of bare feet on a particular surface.

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