APRIL 2021
making a splash
CONTENTS APRIL 2021
VOLUME 92 NUMBER 3
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ON THE COVER In the double-height main pool hall—the centerpiece of World Class Alekseevskaya, a Moscow fitness club by Vox Architects—bands of clerestory windows flank an oval ceiling dome lit by special projectors, creating an interplay of natural and artificial light. Photography: Sergey Ananiev.
features 112 ON THE AVENUE by Sophia Kishkovsky
World Class Alekseevs kaya, a Moscow fitness club by Vox Architects, channels the scale and history of one of the city’s most imposing thoroughfares. 120 ONE WITH THE LAND by Rebecca Lo
Cheng Chung Design’s interiors for the 50% Cloud.Artist Lounge in southern China unite with the project’s regionally rooted exteriors by Xu Luo. 128 GOING FOR THE WIN by Rebecca Dalzell
COURTESY OF CHENG CHUNG DESIGN
Connection, sustainabi lity, and graphics score big at sport-betting company Fortuna’s Prague headquarters by Studio Perspektiv.
136 FULL CIRCLE by Edie Cohen
Peter Pichler Architec ture’s namesake founder returns to Italy’s South Tyrol, designing the Hotel Milla Montis to reflect the vernacular of his birthplace. 144 THE ART OF LIVING by Jen Renzi
VYV, a residential com plex in Jersey City, New Jersey, by Perkins East man, with interiors by Studios and Arrowstreet, reflects the area’s cultural renaissance. 152 HISTORY IN THE MAKING by Annie Block
Modern building technolo gies combine with ancient references in a mix of centuries-old and new projects around the globe.
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CONTENTS APRIL 2021
VOLUME 92 NUMBER 3
special section 69 25 BIG IDEAS
Cool concepts span the globe.
departments 25 HEADLINERS 33 DESIGNWIRE by Annie Block 38 BLIPS by Annie Block 42 PINUPS by Wilson Barlow 51 MARKET by Georgina McWhirter and Rebecca Thienes 162 BOOKS by Stanley Abercrombie 164 CONTACTS
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167 INTERVENTION by Wilson Barlow
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e d i t o r ’s welcome
big ideas abound March Madness has a kindred spirit, and you will find it right here in these wild pages. What we named several years ago our Big Ideas issue has become an established appointment that we have unerringly kept with our readers on creativity and vision. Year after year, each volume we’ve assembled has proven an impromptu laboratory of surprises and wonder...our own imaginarium, if you will. And now we present version #9, unbound. What is downright amazing about collection 2021, however, is that it simply kept expanding in all design latitudes and dimensions. I’m writing this note exactly one year to the day since the COVID lockdown (can you believe it?), but it really seems as if the pandemic, isolation, and strife almost didn’t register at all with this crop of designers in terms of innovating; the ideas just kept on coming. Themes uniting these 25 big ones do, however, answer to what we are all dealing with right now. There’s health: How about a pneu matically driven ventilator that costs less than $1,000 to produce? Sustainability: Think indoor agriculture to safeguard against rising global temps. Community: A retirement home’s newly unearthed subterranean space becomes a center for togetherness. And ma teriality: Paper pulp becomes planters, crushed quartz finds new life as LED table lamps, and discarded face masks transform into “stuffing” for an entire modular seating collection (don’t worry, the masks get disinfected beforehand!). Spring is in the air, my friends, and we can sense it in the ferment and the excitement that is engaging us all to demolish the barriers that have been dividing us. But I am saying too much...much more to come next issue. See you in the vaccine line! xoxo
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