The Eighties are also remembered for the obsession many had with fitness and bodybuilding, at those times; and indeed the guy carrying his Osborne 1 “portable” microcomputer in this advertisement must ...

These days, Italy is not particularly renowned for its consumer electronics products; yet, there was a time, in the ’60s, when an Italian company was reputed to be the “European response” to American ...

The Heydar Aliyev Center (Azerbaijani: Heydər Əliyev Mərkəzi) is an important cultural center in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan. It is housed in an iconic building designed by Zaha Hadid Architects ...

One of Le Corbusier’s most celebrated architectural projects and a UNESCO World Heritage site, the Unité d’Habitation in Marseille—also known as Cité Radieuse—is a landmark residential building ...

If you don’t search for it, you will unlikely find the Brion Tomb by accident. The last architectural work by Carlo Scarpa, and one of the Venetian master’s greatest masterpieces, the memorial is ...

The Castelvecchio Museum (Italian: Museo di Castelvecchio) in Verona is an art museum housed in an imposing medieval fortress in the city center and not far from the Arena amphitheater. Building and ...

Amos Rex is a privately-funded art museum in Helsinki, Finland, also known for its futuristic underground expansion by JKMM Architects. The Amos Rex art museum in ...

In 1988, when the West Berlin Senate announced a competition for the “Extension of the Berlin Museum with a Jewish Museum Department”, the intention was to expand the old museum that was dedicated to ...

Winner of the Golden Lion for the best national participation at the 57th Venice Biennale of Art, the installation on view in the Pavilion of Germany has been created by artist Anne Imhof (b, 1978) ...

Located in the multicultural alpine city of Bolzano (Bozen in German), Museion is one of the best-regarded museums of modern and contemporary art in northeastern Italy. Since 2008, the museum has been ...

With a total floor area of 310,000 square feet, the ensemble conceived by ZHA integrates some of the old military structures with a new, L-shaped, building. A full-height lobby constitutes the core of ...

On May 28, 2010, the inauguration of the MAXXI Museum in Rome marked a turning point for the Italian cultural scene. This long-awaited venue, designed by Zaha Hadid Architects, was indeed the first ...