Inspirations.  

Gran Turismo

Lounge chair Gran Turismo, Design Mario Gagliardi for Mario and Casa.

Bus station

Photos captured as a part of incomplete project looking to be completed.

Twenty Twentyone

Impressions from Vienna in the latter half of 2021. Images by Mario Gagliardi.

Parallel Universe

Sometimes, you can catch one of these scenes when things seem less real, as if another version of re...

Surface N° 2

Arctic Paper presents Surface N° 2 – a second edition featuring a specially curated selection of ...

String Theory: Architecture of Connections

This speculative project starts with the idea that space is not defined by volume, but by connectio...

The painted house

These experimental structures have been created by combining design processes of architecture and gr...

Casa Sperimentale

One of the most visionary built experiments of 20th century architecture was created through the per...

Last and First Men

The first and last movie by iconic Icelandic composer Jóhann Jóhannsson (1969 - 2018). With his mu...

el cairel II

turistic housing complex buit in reinforced concret

No.5 Warehouse Museum of Fossil

A space in the headquarter of a stone manufacturer in China. With its monochromatic walls, oddly sla...

Pulp architecture

The need to stand out in a hyper-commercialized market results in remarkable examples of contemporar...

Dovecote-Granary

Tiago Do Vale took on the admirable task of restoring two maize granaries as examples for disappeari...

Core Agora

These shop pavillions in an area of a hotel complex in Greece, designed by Not a Number Architects, ...

Sonata

Sonata, a multi-housing project in Merida, Mexico, was designed by Mexican practice Arkham. Partly e...

K11 Musea

Westworld meets Surrealism in the interior design of K11 Musea, a new shopping mall in Hong Kong, a ...

Lotus Zen House

The Lotus Zen House hotel is located in Mount Jiuhua, an important Buddhist site in China. Hong Kong...

Laurel Hills Residence

A beautiful example of a contemporary Californian residence, designed by Assembledge architects. The...

House 33

House No 33 by Uemori Masaaki and Uemori Kokutou: A fantastic example on how contemporary architectu...

Architectural sculptures

Architectural sculptures by K. Kegelmann as part of "Future City" curated by Mario Gagliardi at the ...

Marqueterie

A contemporary marqueterie effect for a combined side table/console with hidden drawers. © Mario Ga...

The gilded castle

Besides castle Neuschwanstein in Bavaria, Peles is the most remarkable turn-of-the-century castle i...

The Heavy Palace

The Palace of the Parliament in Bucharest was built in the nineteen-eighties after a design by Anca ...

Reactive Space

Inspired by Plato´s allegory of the cave, this is an architectural study for spaces reacting to its...

Paris

Paris 2019. (C) Mario Gagliardi

Calatrava : Sculptures

Sculptures by architect Santiago Calatrava.

PIXelated Cube

experiment idea materialmatters architecture

CAMOUFLAGE ARCHITECTURE

My thesis gallery about camouflage and architecture

Street Life

Photographic impressions in the streets of Tokyo and Kyoto. (C) Mario Gagliardi

Energy

Every photo has an energy, a direction, and a story. I do not own this story.

The Venice Pavillon

The Venice Pavillon interprets the history of Venice as a point of contact between West and East. Sh...

Collaborative City Planning

The result of the Zero Carbon project: a collaborative scale model of the prototype site, close to t...

Structures

Architectural studies, Mario Gagliardi 2002-2004.

Dreaming of Skyscrapers

Mario Gagliardi 2006.

Bones, Stones, Sticks, & Stones

Digital photography and manipulation on paper.

Alessandro Mendini 1931-2019

For Alchimia, design is a cyle: everything that will have to happen has already happened, and the im...

Terror Architecture -18th Century Prisons

In the late 1770s, there was a particular interest in the development of not only scientific and rhe...

Kunio Makaewa

Kunio Maekawa was a master of Japanese modernist architecture. He learned under Le Corbusier and was...

Digital Biology

Interior studies for public indoor spaces merging digital and biological environments. Wall modules ...

Dawson

Yukon Territory, Canada

Fashion, Food, Transport

FUTURE CITY premiered at Vienna Art Week 2018 on November 20, 2018, at MAK Museum of Applied Arts in...

Architecture

Designed by Ted Wells. Architecture. Corten steel and glass.

Writing & Design

Romantic Modern: The California Architecture of Harwell Hamilton Harris. Writer and Designer, Ted We...

Writing & Design

Casting Shadows, Auguste Rodin. Writer and Designer.

Hoi An

Ancient Town in Vietnam and South-East Asian trading port dating from the 15th to the 19th century 2...

worlds of planet earth

A set of photos from different places on Earth. 2018

Carlo Scarpa

jardin des sculptures. C Scarpa

The loft bar

Concept project of loft bar.

Mechanical Suprematist

Experience interesting architectural compositions being created as you look around. This generator w...

Immersive sketch

Travel through an animated architectural sketch (move mouse to look around): http://mariogagliardi.c...

Painted by Time

Inricate patterns created by lichens, made over time around the tiny cracks of ceramic tiles. (C) Ma...

Charles Tassin

Interior designer Charles Tassin has developed a very personal approach to decoration. Merging the s...

penccil: This was 2017

The penccil year in review is a project selection for 2017, this year curated by Mario Gagliardi. Se...

serpentine 2017

exhibition, schauspiel köln, cologne. steelobjects, ceramic reliefs.

BS1

temporary accessible sculpture.

Wayne Sorce: Urban Color

"Wayne Sorce: Urban Color" is on view from October 21st through November 30th at Joseph Bellows Gall...

BKM/Barozzi/Veiga

The extension of the Villa Planta, which will accommodate the Bündner Kunstmuseum, is an exercise o...

Fallingwater

Modernist Architecture by Frank Lloyd Wright

The wall

photography and theoretical project about the The seperation wall between Israel and the west bank

Swiernalis

Polish alternative musician Swiernalis

Green Architecture…. Is it blessing or curse!!

GREEN ARCHITECTURE….IT IS GOOD FOR THE NATURAL WORLD OR MAYBE IT WILL BE A MESS OF THE TREES AND P...

Library

A library in the center of Moscow, study project.

Lattice

Architectural structures. Mario Gagliardi 2006

Kenzo Tange

Kenzo Tange was born September 4, 1913 in Osaka, Japan. After graduating from the University of Toky...

American Food

Davide Luciano is a New York based conceptual food and beverage photographer and motion artist. His ...

Organic Public

Contemporary cities are in need of public spaces which work better for their citizens. This proposal...

Michael Schoner

Michael Schoner develops 3D and 2D designs in different scales varying from architecture and interio...

Design for Disaster

"A disaster zone where everything is lost offers the perfect opportunity for us to take a fresh look...

Shared Space

To develop better urban strategies and futures for communities in desert climates, Mario Gagliardi w...

A Flat Named Desire

An inspirational collection of interior objects.