For the Lucio Costa Archive at Casa da Arquitectura, Pontoatelier builds freestanding rooms that never touch the walls: a triangular film room, a square volume for Brasília and a hammock pavilion.
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Brazil After Le Corbusier, the fourth edition of ABERTO, brought Brazilian contemporary artists into Maison La Roche in Paris as part of France Brazil Season 2025. The exhibition reactivated the modernist landmark designed in 1925 by Le Corbusier, revisiting his historic influence on Brazilian architecture and examining how Brazilian modernism transformed and reinterpreted European rationalism. Through site specific interventions, archival references and spatial dialogue, the show positioned modernism as an ongoing cultural exchange rather than a closed doctrine.
- Pontoatelier builds three freestanding rooms in Matosinhos to house the Lucio Costa Archive
- Tadao Cern’s French Exit hangs a wheat field overhead and leaves it in the care of others
- Marius Boekhorst’s Violet Pixel turns flowers into an abstract painting behind patterned glass
- In Piraeus, MPNYC turns a scarred port warehouse into Castor Place without erasing its past
- KiKi ARCHi turns The Ongoing Future in Beijing into a circular journey through AI
- Heatherwick Studio’s 1000 Trees lifts a park onto columns above Suzhou Creek
