Domus Srilanka Magazine - May 2017

In this issue

Posing as the gallery owner Mario Pieroni, the film director Ferdinando Vicentini Orgnani tells Domus his amazing story, from his first space in an old prison in Pescara to the gallery on Via Panisperna in Rome, which he closed after 22 years to seek “new paths, new forms and new stimuli”.
Carlo Melograni maintains that the gap between politics and architecture today is causing very serious damage, which is particularly evident whenever the country is hit by natural calamities. He recommends a reconstruction of that vital connection as indispensable to the creation of a better environment for human life.
This British designer offers Domus a preview of the contents of the important exhibition that the Centre Pompidou is dedicating to his work: not a retrospective, but the opportunity to observe his body of work immersed in a display designed to interconnect with the “exposed industrial truth” of the building by Rogers and Piano, 40 years later.
PWA Architects has risen up to the challenge of reconstructing a historical building within the UNESCO World Heritage site, the Galle Fort, and to reinterpret the design to a boutique hotel that caters to the modern traveller. Complying with the strict restrictions of the Heritage site, the design stays true to the original identity of the building, while also meeting the requirements of the client.
Over 25 years after his first encounter with Domus, Marc Newson talks about his way of working, the main trait of which has always been a bodily approach. Technological knowledge, wrought shapes and meticulous surface definition give objects by the known Australian designer a strong affective and sensorial quality.