Italy Mall: Wave of the Future

As a general rule, shoppers don’t usually trek to malls, park their cars and trudge through parking lots to check out the architecture. But Boeri Studio is trying to change that with its futuristic overhaul of Italy’s first shopping mall.

In fact, Cinisello Balsamo Shopping Center pretty much shows no trace of the nondescript, industrial-looking space it was built as in 1974. Located on the outskirts of Milan, the structure has been revamped to make the mall more alluring to Italy’s design-minded consumers. The combination of the new parking garage’s Space Age-type alveolar polycarbonate panels and bulbous windows with rear lighting is meant to be enthralling at night. The mall’s interior has been rejigged and the exterior has been clad with perforated stainless steel, giving the effect of a gigantic cheese grater.

Coolest Home Theater

This house in LA designed by the team of Hagy Belzberg (once an intern of Gehry) features the best home cinema ever!!!!

Serpentine Pavilion construction

The notoriously fickle London weather turned on the warmth and sunshine for the 20 July opening of the Frank Gehry Pavilion at Kensington Garden’s Serpentine Gallery. The collaboration with the Serpentine – the ninth in the gallery’s ongoing partnership with leading architects to create innovative, temporary structures – is an especially happy one: it marks the American starchitect’s first completed building in England as well as being his first project with son, Samuel.