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Ian Volner has contributed articles on architecture and design to The Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker, and The New Republic among other publications.
Although architect-designed offerings were limited this year, the latest edition of the fair included product launches from the likes of Frida Escobedo and Kengo Kuma.
A decade into their shared practice, Mexico City–born Ingrid Moye and Berlin-born Christoph Zeller use their bicontinental arrangement to execute projects in both Latin America and Europe, allowing their experiences to inform one another.
Zaha Hadid, the Baghdad-born, London-based architect, has received two major commissions in as many weeks for large-scale projects to be built in Cairo, Egypt. Images courtesy Zaha Hadid Architects Hadid's firm has designed a mixed-used complex called Stone Towers (top). Her firm also won an invited competition for an “Expo City” in Cairo (above). First came word of a new speculative development southeast of the city center. The Stone Towers is a 5.5-million-square-foot office and retail complex set in 42 landscaped acres, including a five-star hotel and sunken gardens, all designed by the 2004 Pritzker Prize laureate. Two weeks later,