After a careful restoration and refurbishment by the Rome-based firm Labics – Maria Claudia Clemente and Francesco Isidori – the monumental Renaissance complex of Palazzo dei Diamanti in the Italian city of Ferrara reopens its exhibition spaces, duly
Applying its principles, a regional agency for the environment incorporates passive energy-saving strategies into its offices, minimizing the need for climate-control systems. Besides providing daylight aplenty, a roof with 112 greenhouse-type skylig
The open and organic architecture of the parish marks a contrast with the heavy and compact center of the city with a radially undulating roof that reinterprets the archetypal form of Romanesque and Gothic aisles through nature.
Outside the ideal city that the architect and urbanist Biagio Rossetti built for Ercole d’Este, Duke of Ferrara, in Renaissance times, the Church and Parish of San Giacomo contrasts its organic contour and open form against the compact and rigid natu
