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MIMA started from the intention of planning a dwelling which would respond directly to the lifestyle of today's societies. How can architecture adapt to the quick life changes and ambitions of a well informed and increasingly exigent society?

Daisy Balloon is balloon artist Rie Hosokai (born 1976) and art director/graphic designer Takashi Kawada (born 1976). Making the world their stage, this balloon unit travels the globe to exhibit their art.

Kengo Kuma & Associates has recently completed the Casalgrande Old House an intervention to an existing farmhouse within the countryside of Reggio Emilia, Italy. Below you will find a description of the project by Kengo Kuma & Associates:

A display of the collection follows the chronological development of modernism and its varied expressions in Europe and the USA of the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s: American Abstract Expressionism, Art Informel, Post-Painterly Abstraction, Pop and Nouveau Realisme and minimal and conceptual art.

The design for the Amir Building arises directly from the challenge of providing several floors of large, neutral, rectangular galleries within a tight, idiosyncratic, triangular site. The solution is to “square the triangle” by constructing the levels on different axes ...

Catalog is a Hong Kong-based sports fashion wear select shop with an emphasis on sneakers. The Beijing store is their first foray into China. The company's name, Catalog, reflects its philosophy: treating brands with different outlooks equally, and actively suggesting ways of coordinating items from different brands to its customers.

Located in the breathtaking Dovrefjell National Park north of Oslo and designed by Snohetta Architects, we find a beautiful (to say the least) shelter. This small building was commissioned by the Norwegian Wild Reindeer Foundation and is meant as a sanctuary for reindeer watching.