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Updated Friday, January 31, 2020 - 02:01
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In case we need more excuses to travel, this year is loaded with promises of interesting architectural projects. This is the case of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Stadium, signed by Kengo Kuma, or The Factory in Manchester - OMA's first public work in the United Kingdom. In addition, Jean Nouvel will premiere in the southern cone with the Rosewood Tower in Sao Paulo and, in June, we will know the work of Tadao Ando in the Paris Stock Exchange to house the Pinault collection, as well as (we hope) the Great Egyptian Museum that Henegan Peng studio has raised in Giza.
Design lovers will be able to discover past and future territories through, for example, the exhibitions planned at the Helsinki Design Museum ( Traveling as a tool ), at the Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rheim and its 20 visionary interiors, or with the expected monograph - the largest to date - that the Design Museum in London will dedicate to Prada from September.
But let's leave the calendar and get a map. Because regardless of inaugurations and specific dates, if it is a matter of enjoying a city without haste through its design and architecture, the ones we propose here hardly disappoint.
Lille, world capital of design
As before Turin, Helsinki, Seoul and Mexico City, Lille is the world capital of design this 2020. This is the first French city to receive the title granted every two years by the World Design Organization, but to many in the Hexagon He hasn't caught them by surprise. With a privileged location between Paris, London and Brussels, this innovative and university city already served as European Capital of Culture in 2004.
Lille oozes design in her daily life and has public spaces of the first order, both in the city -like the Tri Postal and WAAO, center of architecture and urbanism-, as well as in its surroundings: The Louvre in Lens, La Piscine art museum and industry, in Robuaix, and Villa Cravois, in Croix.
In addition, to its usual good addresses, such as the urban farm of the Saint Saveur station, this year there is an agenda full of exhibitions and events, as well as the presentation of proposals with sustainable solutions to safeguard the planet.
New York, according to the magazine 'Wallpaper'
Neither sleep nor stop building: The Big Apple will enjoy this year the realization of large-scale projects so Wallpaper magazine, something like the Design Bible, has chosen it in its recent awards as the best city of 2020. The magazine mentions the inauguration in 2019 of Hudson Yards and its consequent contribution of a "much needed infrastructure". He also praises the opening The Shed, the first cultural institution in decades, as well as the renovation of MoMa, both with Diller Scofidio + Renfro behind.
The artistic chapter highlights the inauguration of the colossal Pace Gallery in Chelsea, as well as the renovation of the Sotheby's headquarters by OMA. It aims at the incorporation of the Object & Thing design fair to established events, such as TEFAF and Frieze. In addition, two institutions in the world of furniture design - The Future Perfect and 1stdibs - opened their respective showrooms in 2019.
But what does 2020 hold? For example, the multifunctional complex XI Towers of Bajrke Ingels in Chelsea, the first skyscraper of Alvaro Siza in the United States, as well as the non-exempt reinterpretation of controversy that Snøhetta has made of the AT&T building , the postmodern building of Philip Johnson. And as a climax, as far as hotel deals are concerned, New York will see its first Aman and Six Senses hotels. Not bad to be the city that never sleeps.
The first Universal Exhibition in the Middle East
Like its superlative nature, the Dubai Expo 2020 with the participation of 192 countries promises to be a big show. Under the axis of opportunity, mobility and sustainability, the universal fair will feature the contribution of Santiago Calatrava, which signs the flag of the United Arab Emirates and Norman Foster that presents the Mobility Pavilion. For its part, the Spanish proposal is in charge of Selgascano , the firm of José Selgas and Lucía Cano.
In the Expo, which runs from October 20 until April 10 next year, in addition to architecture there will be gastronomy, cultural events and shopping. As for new hotel openings, the Burj Khalifa district awaits next March the inauguration of the brand new ME by Meliá.
Located in The Opus, the building called to be the new icon of the Dubai skyline , the first property of the Spanish chain in the Middle East is the only hotel project of the late Zaha Hadid, who personally designed all the interiors and exteriors, showing her staff interconnectivity vision. With 93 rooms and 98 apartments, the ME will offer 15 restaurants -among them, a ROKA that is preceded by its success in London-, and in other properties of its same label there will be a rooftop space with spectacular views.
Oslo and its fjord finally
This is the year of the culmination of the renovation of the Oslo seafront. The Norwegian capital turns over its fjord - for so many years abandoned - with the opening of the expected new Munch Museum , by the Spanish studio Herreros y Asociados, and the headquarters of the public library of Atelier Oslo and Lund Hagem. To know the nearby National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design (so far scattered around various locations in the city) that signed Kleihues + Kleihues, we will have to wait until next year.
Instead, we will not have to wait any longer for Maaemo's reopening , the only three Michelin stars in Norway, who leaves his headquarters next to the acrobat bridge to reopen his doors at the end of February in the nearby urban venture of Bispevika, quadrupling his space with capacity for 36 people.
In Fornebu , a relatively new venture where the old airport was also located next to the fjord and where to date the headquarters of Equinor, signed by A-Lab, reigned the opening of the aquarium designed by Haptic. All this adds to the recent The Twist, the splendid gallery that BIG designed for the museum / sculptural park of the Norwegian company Kistefos, an hour's drive from Oslo, opened last September.
And while we wait for the opening in 2022 of Sonerro by Nordic Hotels & Resorts, a hotel that will give a lot to talk about, we stay with Amerikalinjen of the same group, the stylish boutique hotel member of Preferred Hotels & Resorts that last March opened to the Central Station in the old offices of the Norwegian America Line.
Rio de Janeiro, world capital of architecture
The Brazilian city premieres this 2020 the title of world capital of architecture , a distinction that has been granted for the first time by Unesco and the International Union of Architects that this July will hold its 27th congress there. Apart from exhibitions, celebrations and debates at a professional and academic level, Rio is the perfect destination for architecture lovers, as it combines in its capricious orography an amalgam of styles that range from the Lusitanian colonial heritage to the climax of its own style , the carioca school led by Lúcio Costa and Oscar Niemeyer.
Although it is full of monumental buildings and houses sublime examples of the Art Deco style in South America, such as its iconic Christ the Redeemer, it is worth getting carried away and contemplating its architectural daily life, enjoying its beaches, stopping in the squares to listen to a beer chorinho in hand, step on the gardens and walks designed by Roberto Burle Marx, and stay in one of its most architectural hotels, such as the Belmond Copacaba Palace (if available), the Hotel Arpoador de Bernardes Arquitetura or the National Hotel that Niemeyer signed , and that has just reopened its doors.
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