Tag Leonardo Finotti

Lina Bo Bardi awarded Special Golden Lion in memoriam at the Biennale Architettura 2021

11-03-2021

Lina Bo Bardi awarded Special Golden Lion in memoriam at the Biennale Architettura 2021

Architect Hashim Sarkis, curator of the 17th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, recommended Lina Bo Bardi as this year’s recipient of the Special Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement in memoriam, proposal accepted by the Board of Directors of the Venice Biennale. The announcement was made on March 8, 2021, on the occasion of Women’s Day. For Hashim Sarkis, the Italian-born architect, designer, scenographer, artist and critic, naturalised as a Brazilian citizen, most fittingly embodies the theme of the Biennale Architettura 2021, identifying in the design of the São Paulo Museum the greatest example of her ability to transform architecture into a social art.

Reinach Mendonça Arquitetos Associados designs office building overlooking Sugarloaf Mountain in Rio de Janeiro

24-03-2020

Reinach Mendonça Arquitetos Associados designs office building overlooking Sugarloaf Mountain in Rio de Janeiro

Admiring the iconic view overlooking Sugarloaf Mountain, the famous mountain symbol of Rio de Janeiro, was the idea behind the interior project recently designed and completed by the Brazilian firm Reinach Mendonça Arquitetos Associados. The project focused on the restructuring and redevelopment of a business centre built in the 1970s, without particular architectural merits, in the Botafogo Beach district in the southern area of the city.

RIBA International Prize 2018 goes to Aleph Zero and Rosenbaum’s Children Village

28-11-2018

RIBA International Prize 2018 goes to Aleph Zero and Rosenbaum’s Children Village

RIBA has named Aleph Zero and Rosenbaum’s Children Village the world’s best new building. The project was recently awarded the 2018 RIBA International Prize, after receiving the 2018 RIBA Award for International Excellence and being named RIBA International Emerging Architect of 2018 in the spring.

The list of the world’s 20 best new buildings according to RIBA names Aleph Zero as International Emerging Architect

22-05-2018

The list of the world’s 20 best new buildings according to RIBA names Aleph Zero as International Emerging Architect

The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has announced the RIBA International List 2018, a biennial selection of the world’s 20 best new buildings, and the young Brazilian studio Aleph Zero has been awarded the 2018 RIBA International Emerging Architect Prize.

Swiss Re Next

21-03-2018

Swiss Re Next

Swiss Re Next is the name of the new open space offices of the Zurich-based insurance company. Diener & Diener’s Swiss Re Next building, with its undulating glass continuous façade, was built on the site of the company’s old headquarters, constructed in the ’60s by architect Werner Stücheli, now demolished.

Apiacas Arquitetos Itahye House San Paolo Brazil

08-02-2017

Apiacas Arquitetos Itahye House San Paolo Brazil

Apiacás Arquitetos designed a private home that maintains a profound relationship with the landscape in a protected nature reserve in Brazil. Leonardo Finotti’s beautiful photographs demonstrate how the building is embraced by its natural surroundings.

Apiacás Arquitetos Pavilion Una a Barra do Una Brazil

06-12-2016

Apiacás Arquitetos Pavilion Una a Barra do Una Brazil

Apiacás Arquitetos uses standardised modular elements to design a multi-purpose pavilion serving an apartment building near Barra do Una, the famous beach close to São Paulo, Brazil.

Alvaro Siza Sacro exhibition at Maxxi Roma

07-11-2016

Alvaro Siza Sacro exhibition at Maxxi Roma

From November 9 2016 through March 27 2017 Maxxi in Rome, the museum designed by Zaha Hadid, will contain a big installation designed by Álvaro Siza to display his projects in the exhibition entitled “Álvaro Siza, Sacro”, in which two profoundly different ways of approaching architecture appear in direct contrast.

RB12 of Triptyque and the renewal of Rio de Janeiro

28-09-2016

RB12 of Triptyque and the renewal of Rio de Janeiro

Urban renewal and green retrofitting are the keys to Triptyque’s RB12 project in Rio de Janeiro. Triptyque’s RB12 office building in Avenida Rio Branco is part of the “Porto Maravilha” project commissioned by the City of Rio for the 2016 Olympics.

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