Architect Tadao Ando has designed a new contemporary arts centre in Venice for luxury goods tycoon François Pinault. The project will convert the historic Punta della Dogana building into a space for part of the François Pinault collection and will open in 2009.

Every building has an architect, either good or, let’s say, not-so-good… There are some architects you cannot separate them from their designs, and their designs from them. I have seen these caricatures in a Turkish web site which explain exactly this point. If you want to see Mario Botta, Norman Foster, Frank Gehry, Mies Van [...]

This volume, now also available in paperback, inaugurates a new Electaarchitecture series on residential architecture and presents an illustrated portfolio of 20 innovative, talked-about houses built around the world during the past decade by both celebrated architects and emerging young designers.