After two years of stop, last Friday Coachella reopened its gates presenting an unmissable line-up featuring names like Billie Eilish, The Weeknd, Harry Styles and even Måneskin. 

The festival hosted in Indio, California, which in recent years has been increasingly successful – especially on social media – is not limited to offering good music: Coachella is a 360° experience that also includes art. 

Every year, in fact, to make the experience even more beautiful, the organization relies on the expert hands of architects, studios and designers commissioning pavilions and site-specific installations that are transformed into the festival skyline. Let’s discover together some of this year’s works. 

Spectra, New Substance

The kaleidoscopic Spectra tower returns for its third year in a row, becoming more and more a symbol of the entire festival. 

The Playground, Architensions

The studio founded by Alessandro Orsini and Nick Roseboro and based between New York and Rome proposes a reinterpretation of the urban landscape, with an installation consisting of four towers between 12 and 20 meters high. The hyper-colored structures, connected by bridges, propose a new vision of common space.

Circular Dimensions x Microscape, Cristopher Cichocki

Artist Cristopher Cichocki used more than 25,000 pieces of PVC pipe to create a structure that blends into the sky and landscape, becoming almost a mirage.

Buoyed, Kiki Van Eijk

Dutch designer Kiki Van Eijk presents an installation made up of three totems that mix symbols from different countries and cultures. So we find Asian architecture mixed with windmills and igloos.

Cocoon (BKF + H300), Martín Huberman

Buenos Aires-based architect Martín Huberman has created an installation using a piece of design born in his city: the so-called butterfly chair. Dozens and dozens of chair frames were used and interlocked to erect a white tower that takes on the colors of the spotlight.

La Guardiana, Los Dos 

Ramon and Christian Cardenas created a female statue carrying a child who stands as a guardian of those who out of necessity decide to leave Mexico or Central America for the United States. 

Mutts, Oana Stănescu

The New York-based Romanian architect made silhouettes of two dogs and filled them with floral patterns. 

Balloon Chain, Robert Bose

Robert Bose’s famous balloon chains have also arrived at Caochella, where for the moment it has reached a length of a quarter mile, or just over 400 meters.