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Villa Tugendhat by Mies van der Rohe reopens to the public

On March 6, 2012, after two years of restoration, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe‘s Villa Tugendhat, built in 1930 at Brno, Czech Republic, will open again to the public. The almost 7 million euros work has been funded by Brno Municipality and European Union… Images > The Guardian / Il Post [NYT / The Guardian]...

Ai Weiwei’s documentary about ‘Ordos 100’

In its official selection, the International Film Festival Rotterdam 2012 has presented the documentary about “Ordos 100”, directed by Ai Weiwei, featuring interviews with some of the architects selected by Jacques Herzog (Herzog & de Meuron) to design a hundred houses in Ordos, a town situated in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region (China)… video > […]...