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YEAR VII
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Color Trend 2023: the future is already here
Interviews
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PEOPLE André Fu
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WONDER
Color stories
Focus on cultural authenticity
PEOPLE Filippo Pagliani
20 Nanjing, China | Deji Plaza Shopping Mall
Phase I, Floor 6 Washroom | X+Living
22 Caracas, Venezuela | Ferrari Service Facility
& complex repair area | Atelier Caracas
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Team-based strategy
PEOPLE Dodds & Shute
146 Green design is possible
24 Amsterdam | Valley | MVRDV Piet Oudolf | Edge
Projects review
88 Chongming, China | Golden Barnyard: Cockaigne of Everyman | Wutopia Lab
House of Music Budapest
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90 Le stanze del vetro, Venice
Venini: Light 1921-1985 | Marino Barovier
92 Zhengzhou, China | FAT & COI Restaurant/tea room | S5design
The experience of music
The Julius Prague
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A new side of hospitality
Van Cleef & Arpels Seoul
140 Milan | Fondazione Luigi Rovati
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MCA Mario Cucinella Architects
142 Paris | Cafe Nuances | Uchronia
Natural luxury
Saint James Paris
144 Rome, 167 Via Giulia | The Mirror
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192 Milan | NH Collection City Life
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of Wonders | Fabio Mazzeo Architects
Layered, maximalist style
Contempo Hong Kong
Quattroassociati
194 Olang, Italy | Hub of Huts | Hotel Hubertus Spa 196 Prague | Institute of Natural Medicine,
WunderLocke Munich
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Cellularium | Formafatal noa* network of architecture
An office/house/gallery to work and dream in style New expression in tune with nature
180 East 88th Street New York
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Contemporary craftsmanship
Ca’ di Dio Venice
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The poetics of hospitality
Dior Paris
100 A refuge of wonders Furla Tavarnelle Val di Pesa, Italy
110 Made in Chianti Casa Cipriani New York
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A hotel with a view
Hyde Hotel Dubai
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Akris Washington DC
126 Authenticity against ostentation ModernHaus Hotel New York
130 A breath of fresh air Genesi Holding Milan
136 A confident atmosphere Hotel Terrestre Puerto Escondido, Mexico
152 Back to the essentials Shangri-La Shougang Park Beijing
160 Creative connections in a “found” space Wunderkammer Bressanone, Italy
166 A music school that interprets the city Base4Work Bratislava
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170 Resilient workplace architecture Ling Ling Mexico City
176 At marvelous heights BSP 20 House Barcelona
180 Visual and conceptual daring Milano Verticale | UNA Esperienze Milan
184 Vertical elegance Mercer Torre del Remei Bolvir, Spain
188 In the footsteps of Spanish Modernism
Short Stories
199 A wide view on major international projects
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223 A selection of the most innovative products
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233 A preview of the upcoming global projects NEXT IN THE WORLD
240 New top hotels: the Far East surpasses Europe
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EDITORIAL
ALESSANDRA BERGAMINI Deputy Editor
Time and architecture
T
he clear theme and widespread practice that emerges from this Fall edition of Wonder Book is the will (beyond the mere need) to recover architectural structures on different scales, in complementary indoor and outdoor spaces, and in diverse geographical locations. These works interpret and re-interpret the existing context – built, historical, cultural, and social – becoming “a challenge to seek new meanings and new uses,” in the words of Piuarch’s Monica Tricario, guest on the White Box page of this publication, together with Massimo Iosa Ghini, Roberta Pasinetti, co-CEO of Manifattura Tabacchi, and Daniele Villa, Engineering, Maintenance & Energy Department Italy and NYC Coordinator NH Hotel Group. This means preserving while transforming for the present and the future alike. A heating plant becomes home to offices (Base4work in Bratislava), disused industrial buildings come back to life as hotels (Shangri-La Shougang Park), design studios (Contempo in Hong Kong), and aparthotels (Wunderlocke Munich). Pieces of Italian and international architectural historical heritage have been rehabilitated as hotels, residences, and flagship stores (Ca’ di Dio in Venice, The Julius in Vienna, the Battery Maritime Building in
New York, Dior Montaigne in Paris, and the Hotel Torre del Remei in the Pyrenees). These transformations mean awareness and sustainability in more than one sense, while creating hybrid building types and flexible spaces, ready for their next metamorphosis. There is also plenty here that is “new” (such as Park Associati’s architecture, André Fu’s interiors, the Musikschule in Bressanone, Furla’s Headquarters, Budapest’s House of Music, and Mexico’s Hotel Terrestre), seeking solid relationships with the natural and built context as well as the passage of time in a wide variety of building types. These too are actions situated between the present and the future. Enjoy the read.
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WONDER. NANJING, CHINA | DEJI PLAZA SHOPPING MALL PHASE I, FLOOR 6 WASHROOM | X+LIVING “There are many things I want to express through this project, the challenge of the traditional aesthetic mode, and the re-examination of the refined decoration and its connotation in the field of decorative
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aesthetics. But in the end, my only hope is that after stripping away the layer of mystery, it will long exist to become a ‘sanctuary garden’ within the reach of every urban traveler”, Li Xiang
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WONDER. CARACAS, VENEZUELA | FERRARI SERVICE FACILITY & COMPLEX REPAIR AREA | ATELIER CARACAS © Outer Vision (Saúl Yuncoxar)
In the surrealistic space the perception of the machine is altered by an artifact made up of a great lamp: stainless steel arms come out supporting convex mirrors, both illuminating and reflecting the car.
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WONDER. AMSTERDAM | VALLEY | MVRDV | PIET OUDOLF | EDGE
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The geology-inspired, high-rises combine offices, shops, cultural facilities, apartments and extensive planting. As the 13,500 young plants and trees mature over the years, they will make Valley a manifesto for a greener city.
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COLOR STORIES
Color Trend 2023: the future is already here From Generation Z to Geoengineering: trends in 2023 look to a distant future made of change and action. And colors tell the story
W
hat should we expect in 2023? It’s impossible to answer the question, almost. But it is possible to outline glimpses of the main trends that will have an influence on our society. This is what the team at ColorWorks™ does, in order to identify the chromatic outlooks for the coming year. The process that guides the social and color trend experts of ColorWorks™, from all over the world, begins with research to discern four global leanings that can influence the responses of consumers in the next few years. Every trend is treated as a ‘Story,’ to which the team assigns five hues or color effects that represent the key elements of any emerging movement, for a total of 20 colors that go into ColorForward™. The answer to our initial question is then resolved in the pursuit of psychological and digital escapism in the emerging movements of Generation Z, and in the new solutions to the climate crisis that call engineering into play. The themes touch on various latitudes and fields distant from one another, but which already reveal their importance, since they are destined to explode and to have a decisive impact in the months to come. They are perfectly reflected in tones of interference, ambiguity and mystery – drawn from the Stories Mare Tranquillitatis and Meet-your-verse, presented in the Spring edition of the Wonder Book. But there are also bright tones and – oppositely – muted, ‘earthy’ shades, such as those used to interpret the Stories Cataly t and Code Blue, the last duo of ColorForward™ 2023, as narrated by Roberto Romanin, senior designer of ColorWorks™. Author: Veronica Orsi
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FOCUS ON CULTURAL AUTHENTICITY “Being born in the East and raised in the West, I aim to express my authentic lived connections and experiences with both cultures in my work,” says André Fu
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fter studying architecture at Cambridge and gaining experience in Europe, in 2004 André Fu returned to his native Hong Kong, moving his interior design studio here that he had founded in London. The year 2009 was one of opportunity and a turning point in his career as an interior architect with the Upper House hotel project in Hong Kong. For this client, in 2021, about 10 years after his first project, he completed the André Fu Suite. The signature residence on the 48th floor covers about 180 square meters and perfectly embodies his design ethos of “relaxed luxury, “which, as he explains in this interview, means “creating a space that resonates with people as they spend time or pass through. The real sense of relaxed luxury is not about physically what you see. It is that feeling of entering into a place and knowing it has been designed around you. You feel good, you feel relaxed, you feel comfortable. As a designer that focuses on the essence of experiences, I always believe an environment ought to be genuine and specific for its consumer, and not about creating mere spectacles.” Since 2009, his firm has earned the trust of prestigious clients in hospitality, including Collective, Villa La Coste in Provence, The St Regis Hong Kong, Artus K11 Hong Kong, The Berkeley London, The Mitsui Kyoto, Andaz Singapore, and The Waldorf Astoria Bangkok. The firm also launched André Fu Living (AFL), a holistic collection of lifestyle products.
author: Alessandra Bergamini portrait photo: André Fu Studio projects photo: Knightsbridge Pavilion Penthouse (The Berkeley), Sezanne and Maison Maronouchi, The Maybourne Riviera (André Fu Studio), The Upper House (The Upper House)
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