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DOUBLE ACT
Tadao Ando and François Pinault
CULTURAL DRAW
K1 arts complex, by Teo Yang and Ourstudio, for Kukje Gallery, Seoul
SANCTUARY
Elephant World, Thailand, by Bangkok Project Studio
PLAYGROUND
MOKA Garden, South Korea, by Jaime Hayon
JUDGES' AWARDS 2021
Our highest honours span six special categories, adjudicated by this mighty jury. Meet the judges and winners on the following pages, and see full profiles and shortlists on Wallpaper.com
HIDEAWAY
Kakurega Omakase, Mexico
BEST MUSIC VENUE
Floating Music Hub
BEST BURGER BAR
Popl, Copenhagen
21 Rising Stars For 2021
Our Next Generation showcase shines a light on 21 outstanding graduates from around the globe, Wallpaper’s pick of the best new talent in seven creative fields. See more on all our graduates at Wallpaper.com ∏ #WallpaperNextGeneration
Colour scheme
A collaboration with artist Imi Knoebel adds a multi-tonal twist at Akris
Home and dry
Virgil Abloh furnishes us with an edit of Off-White’s latest interiors line
Cultural reach
Hyundai Motor is supporting contemporary art to address the questions of our time
Stay tooned
Zimbabwean-born artist Kudzanai-Violet Hwami is one to watch as she explores issues of gender, sexuality and identity through her carefully crafted, cartoon-inspired collages
THE VINSON VIEW
Quality maniac Nick Vinson on the who, what, when, where and why
MADE IN CANADA
A show of design strength shapes up in Montreal
GROUND BREAKERS
The world is changing, architecture is adapting, and a new wave of young practices in London is emerging. They’re armed with bold ideas, digital tools, new studio set-ups and innovative design approaches. In our Next Generation series, we hail this nexus of exciting studios in the UK capital, the first ten of which, featured in the next pages, are just the beginning. More will be presented online throughout the year – next stop the USA
Pipe dream
Architects SO-IL have made waves at the new K11 arts centre in Hong Kong’s Victoria Dockside
Newspaper*
Wallpaper’s hot pick of the latest global goings-on
Holy order
David Chipperfield Architects turns a 17th-century German convent into a 21st-century office complex
Reality check
Artist Sarah Sze explores the shadowy spaces between physical and digital worlds
OPEN HOUSE
Dividers rule in architect Francesco Librizzi’s free-flowing Milanese apartment
Soft landing
Cashmere specialist Loro Piana debuts its first furniture designs and devotes an entire floor of its new Tokyo store to interiors
Finders keepers
Fashion designer and inveterate collector Paul Smith shares a few of his favourite things in a new book, and here with his friend and travelling companion Deyan Sudjic
TRAIL MAKER
French artist Sophie Calle’s work spans imagined lives and actual death. Here, she talks about exhibitionism and intimacies, love and loss, and more than a century’s worth of lonely hearts ads that inspired her latest project and a 20-page portfolio for Wallpaper*
Heavy lifting
Greek architect Georges Batzios squares up to the renovation of a landmark brutalist office block in Athens
Tokyo story
Marcio Kogan draws on his travels in Japan to create new seating for Minotti
Time frame
Photographer Paolo Roversi captures the essence of Italian furniture company Poliform as it marks 50 years of high craft and creativity
Urban jungle
From vertical gardens to bamboo bridges, Vo Trong Nghia is set on greening Vietnamese architecture
Paola Antonelli and Alice Rawsthorn
The duo behind Design Emergency on what began as an Instagram Live series during the pandemic and is now becoming a wake-up call to the world and compelling evidence of the power of design to effect radical and far-reaching change. On the following pages, we meet their contributors to this special Guest Editors’ section; from illustrators to tech entrepreneurs, from Atlanta to Karachi, these are stories of design’s new purpose and promise
STILL LIFE
Sculptor Genesis Belanger meditates on mourning and loss