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The aficionados of architect Zaha Hadid flock to this curvaceous structure with its hard, asymmetric concrete shell was built with the Southern Italian Campania region’s hot sun in mind. Built to resemble – abstractly – an oyster, the terminal shelters its visitors as well as acting as a thoroughfare for ferry and cruise ships, a striking architectural resting place for those coming from, and destined for, far away.
Illuminated at night, the Salerno Maritime Terminal also acts as a beacon for the area. As a transition between land and the sea, the structure, which itself looks both solid and liquid, is the perfect metaphor for its functional and aesthetic purposes.
Offering views of the Mediterranean Sea as well as the Amalfi Coast, the Gulf of Salerna and the Cilento Coast, this is more than just a place to be in transit – it’s a piece of Zaha Hadid’s architectural legacy, with awe-inspiring vistas to boot.
As the property neared finishing, Fabio took the decision to keep the garden wild and naturally indigenous – where the boundaries between garden and rural countryside were blurred.
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With a playful take on a Venn diagram, GRAS Scotland clarifies just what it is they do: work at the intersection of creating ‘cool stuff’’ and ‘stuff that matters’. It’s only partly self-deprecating. With ‘cool’, they mean extraordinary, progressive and innovative.
Thun simultaneously designs and innovates within the medium of interiors, product design and architecture with an aesthetic that stays within the parameters of simplicity, durability and lightness.
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A project in the making by Snøhetta, winner of an international design competition, with remarkable modelling by Zoa Studio, this project has been brought to life with a combination of renderings and real-life drone, video and photography footage.
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Brothers Tarla and Antoin MacGabhann are the creative talents behind some of Ireland's more modernist eco builds including the little design hotel Breac.House in Donegal.
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The master of reductive design, Belgium architect and interior designer Vincent Van Duysen is a behemoth legend of pared-back aesthetic and minimalist style over a spectrum of design disciplines, including furniture, textiles, and lighting.
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Taking their cues from the pomegranate tree fresco, you’ll find accents of sage-green, terracotta and ochre scattered on cushions – the only colour against a sea of grey, black and beige.
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Reducing a 50 bedroom hotel to just seven suites has a distinctive design logic of architect and designer Martin Gruber - a structural genius who narrates a closeness to Alpine nature.
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When dealing with one of the oldest buildings in Salzburg, it takes the architect’s clever manipulation of architecture and design to create an exciting, inspiring atmosphere that coverts the old and the new to extreme yet complimentary dimensions.
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Rome's 'square colosseum', now home to fashion house Fendi's headquarters, is a historic architectural reminder of Mussolini's imprint on Italy's capital.
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Salzburg’s striking Building Academy stands as a contemporary ode to Austria’s longstanding ability to wow us with her architecture and design.
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This tiny mountain hamlet is home to some stunning architecture, a sort of magnet for the craft and its followers, not least those that flock to the legendary architect Peter Zumthor's famed Therme Vals - an aqueous world that brings the mountain indoors.
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