Is the Vertical Forest / Bosco Verticale tower complex in Milan by Boeri Studio really the archetype of a new generation of sustainable high-rise buildings?

The Afsluitdijk Wadden Center is a museum and a visitor center in Kornwerderzand, a settlement on the Afsluitdijk causeway in the northern Netherlands

Zaha Hadid Architects have been selected to design the 2,000-seat building of the new Sverdlovsk Philharmonic Concert Hall in Yekaterinburg, Russia

Designed by Arata Isozaki and Andrea Maffei, the Allianz Tower in Milan is a 686-foot tall skyscraper whose design was inspired by Brancusi’s Endless Column

The architecture of the 650-foot long Feltrinelli Porta Volta iconic building complex, designed by Herzog & de Meuron in the Porta Volta district of Milan

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

Until January 2016, the Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein presents the work of young Dutch designer Christien Meindertsma.

From October 6, 2018, the Triennale di Milano hosts a major exhibition to celebrate 100th years since the birth of Italian designer Achille Castiglioni

On 15th September 2018, V&A Dundee – Scotland’s first design museum designed by Kengo Kuma and Associates- finally opened its doors to the public.

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?

From 24 October, the CCCB – Center of Contemporary Culture of Barcelona – presents the exhibition “Stanley Kubrick”

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

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