Abitare

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AbitareA compass for Dubai Isola Design Group has a packed schedule, once again presenting exhibitions and events at this year’s Dubai Design Week.

11.04

AbitareVillage Effect Three buildings in the shelter of a screen of tuff, permeable boundary of the house in the countryside designed by Studio Gum in the hinterland of Scicli L'articolo Village Effect sembra essere il…

11.04

AbitareThe Art of Colour A book containing two hundred works by a hundred contemporary artists celebrating the rainbow, universal symbol of hope, optimism and revival L'articolo The Art of Colour sembra essere il primo su…

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AbitareThe office is mobile In Melbourne, a series of movable OSB partitions allows the office space to be reconfigured as required L'articolo The office is mobile sembra essere il primo su Abitare .

10.28

AbitareFull Volume Rigour, symmetry and a novel play of solids and voids. Atelier Matteo Arnone has turned a former winery forty kilometres from Lisbon into a residence for two DJs.

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AbitareWinter Textures Dario Fusaro’s photos capture the magic of a blanket of snow on the estate of Villa Verdina, in the hills around Turin.

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AbitareInterview: Tatiana Bilbao “As human beings we need a constant relationship with others, and architecture can mediate: between people, and between people and their environment.

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AbitareRed Ring At the foot of Mount Fuji, a house becomes a hybrid refuge, combining private use and short-term rentals.

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発見, hakken: a finding. This is a record of what one designer notices in a week.

I grew up beside the Arakawa, in Adachi, and spent five years in a Ginza studio drawing identities for companies you have used without once thinking about them. That work teaches you to read a city as a page. A vending machine is set type. A rice bag is a packaging problem somebody solved in the eighties and nobody has improved on since. A good deal of the best design in Japan is like that: already in the street, unsigned, waiting to be looked at properly.

So this magazine watches the street as well as the feed. More than eighty sources come in through the day, twenty of them Japanese, and what the world's studios are arguing about is counted and plotted so you can watch it move. Every third day I write about one thing I actually stood in front of.

What you get for a story is a headline, a short excerpt, one picture and the way out to the people who reported it. Never the article itself, and never the photograph as though it were ours. A story written in Japanese stays in Japanese here, headline and excerpt both, because that is how its author set it down.

Everything is also published in Japanese at hakkenmag.com/ja/.

— Ren Arakawa, Tokyo