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04/01/2025

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29/12/2024

Christ & Gantenbein have embraced the uniqueness of this venue, creating an exhibition design that accentuates the building’s typological features while focusing on permeability and connectivity. The building offers expansive plateaux with extensive glazing, double-height spaces under exposed concrete beams, and three internal courtyards flooded with light. The high quality of the existing space allows for a minimal architectural intervention. The strategy of economy of means is further pursued through the reuse of elements from previous editions and the infrastructure found on site. (…)


PARIS INTERNATIONALE
ART FAIR Paris, France


AMAG 37 CHRIST & GANTENBEIN


IMAGES
© Gaime Meloni

29/12/2024

Building on the previous exhibitions in Basel and Ceské Budejovice, the third iteration of 10 Models at Architektur Galerie Berlin complements the displayed models with a series of model photographs by Stefano Graziani. These photographs examine selection, order, and display as a visual argument, printed in large scale to engage with the physical models and establish a dialogue beyond spatial grouping. (…)


CHRIST & GANTENBEIN – 10 MODELS
Berlin, Germany


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IMAGES
© Max Creasy
© Jan Bitter

29/12/2024

This exhibition presents a selection of architectural models spanning multiple eras since the practice began in 1998. Varying in scale and material, they reflect the discipline’s evolution over the past two decades. The exhibition highlights key themes in our work, exploring ideas like building within the existing, architecture as a technical discipline, sustainable urbanism, typology, and spaces for art. These objects of evocative beauty serve as reflections of reality while igniting new possibilities. As AI reshapes our sense of authenticity, the physical model becomes a tribute to interpretation’s potential. (…)


CHRIST & GANTENBEIN – MODELS
Ceské Budejovice, Czech Republic | Berlin, Germany


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IMAGES
page 178, 180, 182 and 185 © Gaime Meloni page
184 © Stefano Graziani

29/12/2024

Paris Internationale, an art fair centred on independence, collaboration, and partnerships, showcases contemporary art in various locations each year. The fair utilises existing infrastructures to create an environmentally conscious experience, addressing the underutilisation and mono-use of urban spaces. Since 2023, the fair has been hosted in the historic former telephone exchange at Poste Bergère-Trudaine, 15-17 Rue du F. Poissonnière. Designed by François Le Coeur in 1911, the building features striking Art Deco details, including an iron clock and sculpted gates by Szabo. Later additions, such as a post office in 1919 and a technical building in 1935, enhance its spatial complexity. Recently stripped of its interior finishes and awaiting renovation, the building exposes its raw, skeletal framework, revealing its potential. (…)


PARIS INTERNATIONALE
ART FAIR Paris, France


AMAG 37 CHRIST & GANTENBEIN


IMAGES
page 178, 180, 182 and 185 © Gaime Meloni page
184 © Stefano Graziani

28/12/2024

KUNSTMUSEUM BASEL Basel, Switzerland

28/12/2024

KUNSTMUSEUM BASEL
Basel, Switzerland

Built in 1936, the Kunstmuseum Basel’s historic classicist building houses Europe’s oldest municipal art collection. By the early 2010s, the museum’s growing collection and exhibition programme had outgrown its space. Seizing the opportunity to acquire an additional plot across the street, the museum began a project for expansion. In 2010, Christ & Gantenbein won the international competition, responding to the brief’s duality: creating a museum next to the museum. This ambivalence is central, aiming to establish affinity while maintaining individuality.

The new building’s façade recalls the classical order of base, shaft, and capital. Its concave corner at the street’s bend marks the entrance, while punched windows structure the first floor, and a LED- light frieze adorns the second. The brick walls are self-supporting, with no dilation joints, thanks to a sophisticated anchoring system. The grey brick skin wraps the decagon shape, emphasising its geometry. The water-struck bricks, made from a mix of loam, sand, silt, and clay, vary in hue due to firing temperature. (…)


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IMAGES
page 001, 056, 064 and 066 © Walter Mair
page 054, 058, 060, 062, 068 and 071 © Stefano Graziani

27/12/2024

LB 31 CAMILO REBELO mim, is the thirty-first title from LONG BOOKS COLLECTION.


IMAGES © Hugo Santos Silva

27/12/2024

The classic circulation disappears and becomes a central open space which agglutinates everything and everybody, and in this way collectiveness is the social and cultural dimension from family and typology. This composition promotes all the spaces to come together in a direct and intense way with the exterior greenspaces which are punctuated with some trees with precise symbolism - “notes from paradise”.


LB 31 CAMILO REBELO mim, is the thirty-first title from LONG BOOKS COLLECTION.


IMAGES © Hugo Santos Silva

27/12/2024

House MIM it’s conceived as an urban “Paradise”. It convenes nature in its multiplicity, from the natural light, the green spaces and the far and close horizon to participate in its composition. The space from this patio house should be understood as a fusion in between spaces of contrasting dimensions. The systematic space with its defined functions crosses with the open space with its endogenous freedom, in order to melt in a complex and unique unity.


LB 31 CAMILO REBELO mim, is the thirty-first title from LONG BOOKS COLLECTION.


IMAGES © Hugo Santos Silva

27/12/2024

LB 31 CAMILO REBELO mim, is the thirty-first title from LONG BOOKS COLLECTION.

27/12/2024

“(…) Expectant and im­mobile, in this space where nothing is born and nothing dies, it waits for us. We arrive at its presence after crossing the darkness by following the light that will welcome us. Here, time is suspended, we remain unborn until we return to the darkness.”

Rui Chafes


LB 30 CAMILO REBELO ovo, is the thirty title from LONG BOOKS COLLECTION

27/12/2024

“The Egg occupies the original place, the point of departure for a house which is not really a house. Much like the crypt of a cathedral, it is here that the underlying roots of the entire construction take life. At its centre, a sculpture floats, a light, restless plume. This Egg is neither a fixed nor a finishing point, it is a point of departure, the beginning of everything. The Seed that lives within is the origin of life and nonlife, death and non-death, everything that is ephemeral and greater than we are. (…)

Rui Chafes


LB 30 CAMILO REBELO ovo, is the thirty title from LONG BOOKS COLLECTION

27/12/2024

LB 30 CAMILO REBELO ovo, is the thirty title from LONG BOOKS COLLECTION.

26/12/2024

26/12/2024

LB 29 CAMILO REBELO côa museum, is the twenty-nine title from LONG BOOKS COLLECTION


PROJECT CO-AUTHORED WITH TIAGO PIMENTEL AND G.O.P. - GABINETE DE ORGANIZAÇÃO E PROJECTOS

26/12/2024

LB 29 CAMILO REBELO côa museum, is the twenty-nine title from LONG BOOKS COLLECTION


PROJECT CO-AUTHORED WITH TIAGO PIMENTEL AND G.O.P. - GABINETE DE ORGANIZAÇÃO E PROJECTOS

25/12/2024

It is perhaps the poetic sensitivity, the formal rigour and the dialogue that each project establishes with the territory and the landscape that most significantly distinguishes the thought and practice of Camilo Rebelo. Precise and refined geometric forms emphasize the relationship between each project and the context in which it is situated. Whether of larger or smaller scale, cultural, heritage, or domestic in nature, his approach reveals an unwavering interest and a permanent pursuit of integrating context, memory, and functionality. This methodology combines formal simplicity with conceptual complexity, aiming for a balance between abstraction and context, topography and local materiality. (...)


AMAG PT 08
CAMILO REBELO


Out in December


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