RASSEGNA MIART 2019

26/06/19, 16)28 Milan wins Wallpaper* Design Award for Best City Pagina 4 di 7 https://www.wallpaper.com/architecture/best-city-wallpaper-design-awards-2019 Photography: Anrew Latreille As Vancouver grapples with being one of the most livable yet unaffordable of cities – its very charms and stunning landscapes attracting international interest yet exiling long-time residents and creatives to its margins – it is being eagerly watched for its response. Local developer Westbank has attracted and BIG to design mixed-use residential towers, and Büro Ole Scheeren has unveiled plans for two ‘vertical villages’ of irregularly stacked glass boxes divided by greenery. Patkau Architects has unveiled the impressive Polygon Gallery, and the late Arthur Erickson’s 1980 Evergreen Building will enjoy an extraordinary homage by Shigeru Ban, whose Terrace House tower next door will extrude organically from its neighbour. Landscape architect Cornelia Oberlander’s rooftop garden for Moshe Safdie’s Vancouver Public Library recently opened, offering a timely reminder of how Vancouver can stay true to its ‘green city’, community-minded ideal. Vancouver designers continue to make waves abroad, among them specialist Omer Arbel of Bocci; fine art-influenced duo Dear Human; and Martha Sturdy, who launched a furniture collection in Paris in January. And a local ice cream boom – La Glace is a treat among a clutch of new parlours – is keeping life sweet. New architecture: UBC Aquatics centre, by MJMA; Vancouver Public Library roof garden, by Cornelia Oberlander and Moshe Safdie; North Vancouver City Hall, by Michael Green Architecture Under construction: Vancouver House, by BIG; Terrace House, by Shigeru Ban New hotels and restaurants: The Douglas hotel, by Celano Design Studio; Botanist restaurant, by Ste Marie; Saku, by Emily Danylchuk Cultural draws: Vancouver Design Week; Art Vancouver; The Polygon Gallery Helsinki Kengo Kuma lighting 11/01/2019 web web foglio sheet 3/6 W