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Rome’s Colosseum arena set to be reconstructed with retractable floor

January 6, 2021 Tom Ravenscroft 0

The Italian government is planning to add a retractable floor to the Colosseum amphitheatre in Rome so that performances can be held within the arena. Under the plans developed by the Colosseum Archaeological Park and Italy’s Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism, the arena’s long-disintegrated floor will be reinstated. “The reconstruction of the Colosseum

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Bjarke Ingels’ Masterplanet vision for Earth is “a continuation of the colonialist project” says Liam Young

January 6, 2021 Marcus Fairs 0
Liam Young

Developing a masterplan for the planet could entrench existing inequalities and make climate change worse, according to the architect behind the new Planet City movie. Architect Liam Young described the Masterplanet project by Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) as “a continuation of the colonialist project that has already masterplanned the planet in its own image”. Instead, Young

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Castelgrande’s bunker-like entrance captured in photos by Simone Bossi

January 6, 2021 Lizzie Crook 0
The entrance to Castelgrande by Aurelio Galfetti, captured by Simone Bossi

Swiss architect Aurelio Galfetti’s stark hillside entrance to the medieval Castelgrande in Bellinzona, Switzerland is the focus of this architectural photography series by Simone Bossi. Captured on film, the series highlights the imposing qualities of the clean-cut, bunker-like gateway to the castle, which is described by Bossi as a “majestic” and “powerful space”. Castelgrande is

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Young Art Biennale InfoPoint / AB CHVOYA

January 6, 2021 Andreas Luco 0

The temporary pavilion for the Biennale of Young Art in the courtyard of the Museum of Moscow was designed as an access point to all the projects of the Biennale in the city, and first of all to the projects of street art in the courtyard of the Museum. Our pavilion is a wooden bathyscaphe, and through its portholes one can carefully observe art outside.