From October 10 to December 31, 2018, the Centre Pompidou in Paris presents a major retrospective exhibition on acclaimed Japanese architect Tadao Ando

Carlo Ratti Associati is working with WeRise to develop Livingboard, the prototype of a portable “motherboard system” to improve housing conditions in India

The LaM is a museum near Lille renowned for its collections of modern and contemporary art and the architecture by Roland Simounet and Manuelle Gautrand

BIG developed an undulating building envelope which creates a rippled skin around 2 towers in China and breaks away from the traditional glass curtain wall.

Designed by Spanish architect Carme Pinós, the MPavilion 2018 will be installed in Melbourne’s Queen Victoria Gardens from October 8, 2018, to February 3, 2019

The European Prize for Urban Public Space has been aimed to recognize and promote the best works focused on public space renovation in Europe

From 29 November 2018, to 20 January 2019, the 7th edition of Amsterdam Light Festival will light up the city center of Amsterdam through thirty artworks

Also in the 2018 edition, London Design Festival features a number of “landmark projects” – outdoor thematic installations placed across London.

Two new “minimalist” cell phones – The Light Phone 2 and Punkt MP02 – challenge the very concept of smartphone. Is it a technological breakthrough or much ado for nothing?

The “Teatro Sociale Como” opens its doors for the 1st “Lake Como Design Fair”: a new event bringing together the works of designers, editors and galleries

With “Tutto Ponti, Gio Ponti archi-designer” the Musée des Arts Décoratifs celebrates one of the most influential Italian architects and designers of the 20th century.

Exhibitions and events of London Design Biennale 2018, entitled “Emotional States”, taking place at Somerset House in London from September 4 to 23, 2018

Until 5 May 2019, at the Cloister of Bramante in Rome, an exhibition featuring some of the most recognized contemporary artists explores the world of dreams

Until February 19, 2019, The “Picasso Metamorphosis” exhibition at the Royal Palace of Milan presents the relationship between Picasso’s art and antiquity

Until February 3, 2019, The Museum of Modern Art – MoMA in New York City presents the major exhibition “Judson Dance Theater: The Work Is Never Done”

From September 26, 2018, to January 20, 2019, the New Museum in New York presents a great retrospective exhibition on provocative British artist Sarah Lucas

From November 2018 to January 2019, an exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago traces how Midwest artists helped shape the West Coast culture

From September 5, 2018, through February 3, 2019, a major retrospective exhibition in Mantua, northern Italy, celebrates Marc Chagall through 130 art works

The necropolis “Banditaccia” in Cerveteri, near Rome, is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and the world’s largest Etruscan archaeological site

The Galleria Nazionale di Parma is an art museum in Parma, Italy, most known for its old masters’ paintings, also by Leonardo, Botticelli, and Fra Angelico

Palazzo Medici Riccardi is a Renaissance palace in Florence, once the main residence of the Medicis, and a museum also known for the Magi Chapel by Benozzo Gozzoli

The Medici Chapel in Florence (Italian: Museo delle Cappelle Medicee) is a museum most known for featuring the Sacrestia Nuova mausoleum by Michelangelo

An UNESCO World Heritage Site, the Ducal Palace of Urbino is a monumental Renaissance building and the seat of the “Galleria Nazionale delle Marche” museum

Santa Maria delle Grazie is a church and a convent in Milan, world-known for housing The Last Supper wall painting by Leonardo da Vinci