Skiing on the roof of a waste incinerator at CopenHill
Copenhagen’s CopenHill puts ski slopes and walking trails on a waste-to-energy plant. Seven years after opening, its roof shows how industrial equipment and public routes share a building.
Architecture
Kunstsilo, an art museum inside a grain silo
A concrete silo from 1935 has become a museum of Nordic art. Its former storage chambers still shape the scale and experience of a visit.
Naoshima New Museum of Art extends beneath a hill beside the village
One floor above ground and two below hold works by Asian artists. Partial changes to the displays give visitors reasons to return.
Oodi, a library for borrowing books and playing music
At Helsinki’s Oodi, a library card gives access to instruments and studios, with rooms to try what you have read and learned.
teamLab’s night botanical garden reacts to the wind
At night, Osaka’s Nagai Botanical Garden becomes an outdoor exhibition of light and sound. Wind and visitors’ movements help change the works.
CONNECT: a design exhibition inviting visitors to touch and make
CONNECT in Ghent invites visitors to make, touch, and experiment together, adding hands-on activity to looking and reading.
Stepping inside a candy-box world at Leone 1857’s Happiness Factory
Italian confectionery brand Leone’s Happiness Factory turns the colors and shapes of its packaging into spaces people can walk through.
Revisiting Kandalama’s greenery in a Geoffrey Bawa retrospective
Plants grow along the walls of the Kandalama Hotel. Vitra Design Museum’s Geoffrey Bawa retrospective invites us to see architecture together with its surroundings.
MAIIM Vision Village: the training center that becomes a tycoon’s home on screen
The drama is new, but the house looks familiar. MAIIM Vision Village reveals the relationship between a wealthy fictional home and the real space used to portray it.
Two nearby Starbucks stores, two different ways in
Two stores close together on a map can occupy very different places in a walk. Entrances and everyday routes help explain the space between matching signs.
LACMA revisits visions of homes that would take on the housework
Self-cleaning kitchens and houses assembled in a day: LACMA revisits the future homes imagined during the last century.
Different homes within the same nine square meters
Adding a bed leaves less room for a desk. Starting with the same nine-square-meter footprint, these small dwellings make room for different ways of living.