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venice’s historic caffè florian — the oldest one in italy and in the world — just celebrated its 300th birthday in a bitter way.
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the design draws influence from the sculptures of artist luo xu, and integrates a series of art deco elements to form its own unique identity.
a coconut leaf roof covers the entire ceiling.
the architects planted trees in the corner of both houses, allowing them to protrude outside the envelopes of the two dwellings.
FLWs johnsons wax 2.0
this is horrible
it’s beautiful but recycling FL Wright too much?
http://www.visionandpsychosis.net/images/OfDesign/JohnWax.jpg
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@max : truth, architecture thinking in italy is not dead, but has no/little chances to be realized in their own land
Admirable! Great use of space. My only “jar” is the rectangular roof, where I would prefer rounded corners and some curves built in to the linear line. Particularly like the view from across the Drava River d;-)
Interesting re-envisioning of Wright’s Johnson Wax building.
Great project form Branzi but also form a very interesting young duo from Rome. Glad to know that architecture thinking is not dead in Italy.
branzi is back…after a stream of dubious projects this is defenetly the best work of his latest carreer!
I love how it interacts with the existing buildings, creating those fantastic in-between-spaces that used to be Tschumi’s signature (see Le Fresnoy Art Center) and are too often under-hestimated.