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A Beveled Building by Ayeneh Office; Photo: Ayeneh Office

Iran: In from the cold

As geopolitical isolation gives way to international rapprochement for Iran, all eyes are on how this highly educated, culturally rich, as well as commodity rich, nation is going to develop. While certain sectors have undoubtedly been affected by decades of sanctions, the Iranian architecture scene - bereft of Western starchitectural interventions - has managed to flourish. 

Our 'Architecture Iran' series looks at a range of projects completed recently in the Islamic Republic from a number of angles, with its second installment focusing on how the old Persian concerns of geometry and light are enjoying a renaissance in contemporary architectural praxis. 

Contents in brief:

  • Event Agenda February 2016
  • Architonic Photo Tours: Heimtextil 2016 and imm cologne 2016
  • Architecture Iran  geometry, light, space
  • Material Tendencies N° 12: Eugeni Quitllet
  • Further Articles from Architonic’s ‘News & Trends’
  • WorkOf x Architonic | Greenpoint Studio Tours
  • Inspiring Search Results N° 49: Break-out furniture
  • Inspiring Spaces N° 41: Offices / workrooms
  • Architecture and Design Projects on Architonic

 

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Architonic Guide: Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair 2016

Event Agenda February 2016

Aquatherm 2016, Vienna AT 

26 – 29 January 2016

 

architect@work 2016, London UK 

27 – 28 January 2016

 

Casa (TexBo) 2016, Salzburg AT 

27 – 30 January 2016

 

Gevel 2016, Rotterdam NL 

27 – 29 January 2016

 

Belétage Salzburg Congress 2016, AT 

27 – 30 January 2016

 

Klimahouse 2016, Bolzano It 

28 – 31 January 2016

 

HOMI Milano 2016, IT 

29 January – 01 February 2016

 

HeimtexSuisse 2016, Bern CH 

31 January – 02 February 2016

 

Feria Habitat Valencia 2016, ES 

01 – 05 February 2016

 

Aquatherm Moscow 2016, RU 

02 – 05 February 2016

 

Surface design Show 2016, London UK 

09 – 11 February 2016

 

ZOW 2016, Bad Salzuflen DE 

16 – 19 February 2016

 

Interior Mebel 2016, Kiev UA

17 – 20 February 2016

 

 

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Architonic Photo Tours: Heimtextil 2016

Architonic was in Frankfurt this month for the 2016 edition of Heimtextil, the international trade fair for home and contract textiles. Here below is a link to our Facebook photo tour of the Heimtextil Theme Park, a design concept developed by the WGSN Group, which is a presentation of the ‘Well-Being 4.0’ trend theme prepared by the International Trend Table.

Architonic Photo Tours: imm cologne 2016

Architecture Iran – geometry, light, space

Text: Dominic Lutyens

With Iran coming in from the cold, as it were, the heat is definitely on in terms of its architectural scene. Then again, many argue that the straitened era of sanctions has itself provided fertile creative ground for young Iranian architects.

The decorative, polychrome exterior of industrial glass company Kaveh’s Tehran office, which was completed in 2015, also broadcasts what the firm manufactures

On January 16, ‘Implementation Day’ — when the International Atomic Energy Agency verified that Iran had met all commitments under last summer’s nuclear accord to restrain its nuclear programme — was finally announced. It signalled the end of 10 years of economically crippling nuclear-related sanctions, and Iran’s chance to reconnect with the global economy. It’s in a strong position to do so: it’s the second largest economy in the Middle East after Saudi Arabia, and has the world’s largest reserves of natural gas and the fourth largest of oil. And, despite the international isolation imposed on it by sanctions, Iran is absolutely no cultural backwater: half the population own smartphones and are members of social networking sites.

The premise of A Beveled Building, say architects Ayeneh Office, who redesigned it, was to hide unprepossessing views of a telegraph pole and ugly building opposite. Angled windows direct views away from these eyesores; Photo: Ayeneh Office

Additionally, new legislation has been introduced to attract more foreign investment, making it possible, for example, to register an Iranian company with 100 per cent foreign capital. Two previously depressed sectors that look set to benefit from this are Iran’s construction business and housing market. Yet before sanctions were lifted, architecture in Iran was thriving, and today, some even feel that the country’s relative cultural isolation caused it to blossom, and that a rapprochement with its former enemies — and inevitable merging with the globalised world — will undermine this.

Material Tendencies N° 12: Eugeni Quitllet

Describing himself as a ‘Disoñador’, a combination of the Spanish words designer and dreamer, Eugeni Quitllet likes to enter another dimension when designing objects and furniture. He believes that there should always be something magical in the object.

Eugeni Quitllet was awarded the honour of Designer of the Year for the January edition of Maison&Objet Paris 2016. Architonic met up the Catalan designer to discuss his latest works, which were presented at a solo exhibition at the fair.

Photo: Paola de Grenet

'I like to work with all kinds of synthetic materials that are suitable for high technology and that are very connected to industrial processes. I choose materials that reflect the sensuality of shaping – plastic and aluminium, for example. When designing an object, I like to explore and push the limits of the material to the point that we don’t really understand how it was possible to make it.’ Eugeni Quitllet

Further Articles from Architonic’s ‘News & Trends’

AMBIENTE: Space-defining Accessories

Text: Johannes Hünig

What gives architectural spaces that something extra? Along with the classical interior design vocabulary of colour, surfaces, and materials, accessories play an ever greater role here. That is, space-defining accessories that congenially complement the architecture or set a deliberate counterpoint.

Tough Love

Text: Johannes Hünig 

Flexible, adaptable furniture shouldn't mean a compromise on comfort. With its invaluable know-how in office furniture, DAUPHIN brings the rigour it applies to products for the work sphere to its home brand. The result: peerless comfort, extreme robustness.

Stitched Up: tailor-made design from Presotto

Text: Alyn Griffith

If you're the owner of an Italian, tailor-made suit, you need no convincing of the value of bespoke quality. Premium Italian brand PRESOTTO sees design in exactly the same light, their new 'Tailor Made Project' of supremely customisable furniture systems testifying to this.

Going Straight

Text: Simon Keane-Cowell

When a visionary, game-changing design needs a reboot to respond to the evolving needs of the market, consideration and perfect execution are called for. Here’s the story of how ADECO’s innovative RADAR shelving system made a striking comeback.

Bathrooms as art: Ceramica Flaminia revolutionises toilet design once again

Text: Lachlan Anderson-Frank

In Italy, the design of a bathroom and its fixtures is an art. But the luxury Italian sanitaryware producer CERAMICA FLAMINIA combines both design and performance, working with many of the world’s greatest creative talents including Nendo, Jasper Morrison, and Giulio Cappellini. Its new flushing system, goclean, revolutionises both the aesthetics and function of its pieces.

Coming Full Circle

Text: Ulrich Büttner

Suspended ceilings made of mineral fibre-panels traditionally finish their life cycle on the rubbish tip. However, mineral- tile producer and market leader OWA, based in Amorbach, Germany, has developed a process for reclaiming and completely recycling old panels.

Back to the Future

Text: Simon Keane-Cowell

All good things come to those who wait. Design legend Ettore Sottsass may have left us, but, thanks to global design brand KARTELL, a completely new collection of striking accessories authored by the maestro himself is being launched this month. It’s Memphis all over again.

Welcome to the design lab

Text: Giovanna Dunmall

As much a long-term research project and lifestyle philosophy as it is a brand, AMURA, launched in 2015, is committed to marrying affordability with Italian quality, underpinned by second-to-none upholstery craftsmanship.

Life on the outside

Text: Alyn Griffith

Ah, the great outdoors. We all love it and know the benefits it has on mind and body. Premium furniture brand OASIQ delivers design that makes us feel as equally as good, proving that retro design and high levels of comfort needn't be at odds when it comes to al fresco living.

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WorkOf X Architonic | Greenpoint Studio Tours

WorkOf and Architonic have joined forces to document the status quo of the buzzing Brooklyn designer/maker scene. Each month, we will cover a different Brooklyn neighbourhood with a series of interviews and studio tours. This time round, Greenpoint, which lies on the water's edge at the northwestern-most point of the borough of Brooklyn. With its many industrial buildings, interspersed with short residential blocks, the neighbourhood has an understated gritty allure – this has proven to be the perfect blank canvas for a number of Brooklyn’s best art and design studios. 

MADE expo, the leading trade show for architecture and the building construction industry, will be taking place again from 8 to 11 March 2017 in Milan. But in the meantime, the organizers are staging space&interiors, a unique concept that will shine the international spotlight on manufacturers of architectural and design finishes during Milan Design Week. Space&interiors will in fact be the only event linked permanently with the Salone del Mobile.Milano, benefiting from a far-reaching Italian and international advertising plan. The event’s visibility will be greatly enhanced by its location inside the trade fair venue and there will be shuttle buses on hand for visitors.

space&interiors takes Milan Design Week to a whole new level in April 2016, with a brilliant new event that will arguably focus the gaze of architects, designers and clients from both Italy and abroad on the latest developments and offerings in architectural surfaces, floorings, doors and finishes. The attention-grabbing event will be located at The Mall, a fashionable state-of-the-art location right in the heart of the city’s Porta Nuova Design District.

The first participating exhibitors: 3A Composites, Assa Abloy Italia, Bianchi Lecco, Dierre, Effeitalia, Fantoni, Garofoli, Gypsum, In Sinergia Contract, Italserramenti, Knauf Amf Italia, Legnoform, Manital, Oikos Venezia, Okey,Ponzio, Salice Paolo, Secco Sistemi, System, Tabu, Velux, Virag

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Inspiring Search Results N° 49: 

Office / Contract furniture > Break-out furniture

Inspiring Spaces N° 41: 

Offices / workrooms

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Architecture and Design Projects on Architonic

Jun Murata / JAM.

House for Installation
Kashiwara-shi, Osaka | Japan | Completed 2014
Model: Nini, Huanhuan photographer: Jun Murata

GRAUX & BAEYENS architecten

Omsorg
Ename (Oudenaarde) | Belgium | Completed 2013-2015
photographer: Denis De Smet 

Atelier Zafari

Housing at the old city wall of Berlin
Berlin Mitte | Germany | Completed 2014
photographer: Aviel Avdar

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