Domus Srilanka - August 2018

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A breeze wafts in through the triple-height western and eastern wind pockets created at the Wind Gates apartment complex in Kolhapur, India. Constructed under the guidance of Abhijith Magdum, Chairman, Bhima Mahabharat Builders; Wind Gates features an asymmetrical juxtaposition of blocks on different grids giving the structure a dramatic façade.
Inflatable constructions are efficient, lightweight, strong, ecological and safe, introducing a high-tech yet playful, rounded and sensual architectural language.
A contemporary five-storey villa in Dhaka, Bangladesh has been transformed into a canvass of luxury and elegant style by SICIS. With great attention to detail, the interior and exterior spaces of the villa have been reimagined through mosaic to become a montage of art.
An ever-changing coloured cloud represents a collective intelligence that mutates as the data accumulates.
Discipline, innovation and ethics. The dream of creating an icon. From Rodolfo Bonetto to Sergio Rossi via Fiat, Alfa Romeo and Volkswagen. From a life devoted to car design to the world’s lightest shoe: the designer of complexity recounts a life’s work driven by the wild urge to create and design.
Permeated with ancient Eastern wisdom and infused by the practices of meditation, Silatha enables the transformation of one’s life. The reimagined and handcrafted ‘Dorje’ an elegant spiritual jewellery, together with the Meditation App, lead to a journey of discovering, lasting fulfillment and well-being. It is a philosophy of breaking away from the incessant worldly desires to connect inwards and blossom with true beauty from within.
A place in California mixes a toxic lake, a self-managed community, an independent art festival and Hollywood together for a few days each year; four ingredients that are injecting life back into it.