Baroque

Benedetto Camerana (Camerana & Partners) has just completed the restyling of several apartments for Reale Immobili in Turin's Torre Littoria, one of the urban symbols of the subalpine capital: 10 new apartments, simplex and duplex, which confirm its original luxury residential vocation. Built in 1934 on a project by the architect Armando Melis and the engineer Giovanni Bernocco to house prestigious offices and residences for the Reale Mutua Assicurazioni but also the headquarters, never installed, of the National Fascist Party, the tower is the strongest sign of the urban renewal carried out by the reconstruction program of via Roma. Rationalist icon imbued with references to German expressionism, with 19 floors and 87 meters high, it i... More

The remodeling of the internal and external areas of the architectural site at Crekvina, Kastav, is inspired by the fragments of the wall and apse of the never completed baroque Jesuit Church of St Mary. The exact construction date of the church is unknown. According to different sources, it was built somewhere between the beginning and the end of the 18th century in place of a previously demolished and considerably smaller church dedicated to St Mary. Before the adaptation, Crekvina was a plateau hosting a parking lot and a belvedere along its eastern perimeter and the remains of the church sanctuary and western nave wall with five chapels. The new design serves not only as a stage for the events of the Kastav Summer of Culture festival b... More

The Dresden Museum of Decorative Arts lists more than 55,000 inventory numbers, each of which can tell its own story. The exhibition draws from the museum’s entire collection resources, the “unity”, and proceeds to show “parts” of it. It focuses on references and relationships that can arise between a unity and its individual constituents. Accordingly, in the exhibition “Parts of a Unity” we see unexpected neighbourships happening. Overall, this results in new ways of seeing things and puts the spotlight on the Museum of Decorative Arts as an institution with contemporary relevance, its collection ranging far beyond Baroque pomp and circumstance. Often overlooked on the outskirts of Dresden, this exhibition in the Lipsiusbau offers the oppo... More

A large, black-blue object occupies the Rosa Room, the former second library hall. The intervention relates to its baroque surroundings in deliberately ambivalent ways: on the one hand the object seems like a foreign object landed in the center of the room; on the other hand its haptic characteristics enable visitors to interact playfully with each other and with the room. If touched by visitors, the object, filled with air and water, transforms these touches into reflections of light that create an interactive painting on the ceiling. The installation, which also features a specifically created fragrance, piques visitor´s curiosity and makes them want to interact with this foreign object. The installation´s haptic, physical, mysterious, an... More