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This longform essay examines the architecture of Peter Bohlin through the lens of soft modernism. Beginning with the Eric and Ann Bohlin House and extending to major civic and cultural works, the article explores how Bohlin’s architecture integrates material honesty, light, and spatial unfolding to create humane and enduring environments. Written in a reflective editorial voice, the essay situates Bohlin’s work within contemporary architectural discourse while emphasizing architecture as lived experience rather than formal dominance.
In our interview, photographer Paulina Ojeda shares her unique story and insights on moving from Mexico to Switzerland.
STIPFOLD designs fiber concrete cottages for AltiHut, a solar powered mountain retreat at 3,014 metres in the Georgian Caucasus.
Swiss artist Roger Reutimann explores the intersection of sculpture and functional lighting through a series of limited edition light objects created between 2025 and 2026, where materials such as bronze, concrete, carbon fiber, and resin transform illumination into sculptural presence.
Kinder Rain is conceived as a primordial kindergarten shaped by the spirit of its place and by the emotional world of the child. It is a space that feels protected
This critical essay examines Swiss artist Zimoun’s large scale sound installations, focusing on the 2017 exhibition Mécaniques remontées in Paris. Through modular repetition of motors and everyday materials, Zimoun constructs immersive acoustic environments where architecture becomes instrument and simplicity generates emergent complexity. The article situates his practice within contemporary sound art while analyzing material clarity, system logic and the poetics of mechanical variation.
In the deep valley landscape of Yixing in Jiangsu Province, the Earth Valley Theater proposes a radical shift in the relationship between humans and non human species. Rather than the
The project begins with a clear architectural intention: to preserve the character of the existing building while allowing it to accommodate a new contemporary programme. Rather than pursuing an extensive
In Rennes, during the summer of 2014, a giant red sphere appeared as if the city had briefly held its breath. Inflated to roughly 4.5 metres in diameter and weighing
- The timeless elegance of domestic appliances: From the Iconic Braun KF 20 aromaster to the German design ethos
- Emilio Ferro on the light, sound and memory of a place
- At Maniwa, an architect’s family home opens to the neighbourhood
- What bronze remembers of the hand
- Caught in light: Moradavaga’s suspended shoal
- The making of Alex Chinneck’s impossible Dior windows
