GTRF. Tortelli Frassoni   Italy   A Renaissance prince in the full sense, Emmanuel Philibert of Savoy was besides a capable statesman a true lover and patron of the arts. It was his treasure of classical sculpture that would form the core of the archaeology museum founded in the 18th

Zaha Hadid Architects Block Research Group   Italy   El prototipo de pasarela se construye con piezas de hormigón impreso en 3D sin armar, lo que asemeja su comportamiento a las estructuras tradicionales de piedra, resolviendo los esfuerzos a través de la geometría y no con la acumulación de materiales

Studio di Architettura Zermani Associati   Italy   Saint Matthew left word in the Gospel that the gate to life is small. And that is how visitors may feel as they complete their rounds of the Medici chapels in Florence’s Basilica di San Lorenzo: a walk – separate from the actual temple’s – which used

Balance Architettura   Italy   The idea is to refurbish an existing 6,500-square-meter office building of the historic company Breda Siderurgica, located in Bicocca, a district of Milan. The full renovation, inside and out, encompasses three above-ground floor levels plus the base

Robocoop   Italy   The Soprintendenza Speciale di Roma commissioned Lorenzo Zandri and Luca Pozzati for a temporary installation that would serve to conceal the restoration work going in the courtyard of Palazzo Mattei di Giove, designed by the architect Carlo Maderno

Studio di Architettura Zermani Associati   Italy   The major enlargement of a cemetery has combined a grammar of classical references with a bare materiality to give shape to spaces intended for the rites of final farewells. Emerging from the ground as a bold urban symbol honoring the memory of the d

Studio di Architettura Zermani Associati   Italy   The decision to maintain and restore the defensive tower determined the layout of the house in an L shape and the composition of the whole as an eminently horizontal volume that accentuates the tower’s height.

Norman Foster   Italy   As part of the Venice Architecture Biennale, which runs until November 26 under the theme ‘Laboratories of the Future,’' the Essential Homes Research Project addresses the debate on universal access to essential housing. The result of a collaboration

Atelier Lavit   Italy   The Lilelo (Little Leisure Lodges) hotel is in the heart of Monferrato, one of Italy’s leasing wine areas, in the Piedmont region. A work of the Paris firm Lavit, the complex presents four independent cabins built with larchwood, taking from the hays

Labics   Italy   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

BIG Bjarke Ingels Group   Italy   In 2017, BIG won the competition to remodel the historical San Pellegrino complex in the Italian Alps. The development plan includes a visitor center, work areas, offices, and a bridge over Brembo River. Besides giving new life to the company’s image

OMA - Office for Metropolitan Architecture   Italy   Museum Egizio founded in 1824 is the world’s oldest museum for Ancient Egyptian culture, housed in Collegio dei Nobili in Turin. A complex consisting of exhibition galleries, the Academy of Sciences, and an open courtyard, the museum’s architecture h

Mario Cucinella Architects   Italy   A 19th-century palazzo has been adapted to house a collection of Etruscan art, part of which is displayed in a hypogeum reminiscent of funerary constructions of the Lazio region. Continuous rows of Florentine sandstone give contour to a grotta dug un

Mario Cucinella Architects   Italy   The thorough refurbishment of a group of medieval houses included an underground extension and a terrace that provides a close-packed Tuscan town with a new public space. An interior route threads together the existing constructions and gives visual

Mario Cucinella Architects   Italy   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

Lina Ghotmeh   Italy   Echoing the ruins of Beirut invaded by nature, the tower symbolizes the resilient and optimistic emergence of life with large openings that reveal lush gardens, bringing nature into the heart of the dwellings and into the city...

Nat Office   Italy   It fell upon the Italian firm headed by Christian Gasparini, Nat Office, to build a studio-atelier for the sculptor Michealangeli Galliani next to his house in Montecchio Emilia, a municipality in northern Italy. The wooden volume stretches on up to

Giuseppe Gurrieri Studio   Italy   The practice of the Sicilian architect Giuseppe Gurrieri has restored two rural constructions immersed in the Itria Valley, in Italy’s Puglia region, to turn them into part of a house. These historical structures with dry-stone walls have cone-shaped

Studio FORM_A    Italy   The tripartite composition of the envelope organizes the distribution of uses within the factory. The two first floors, dedicated to theater-related activities, are integrated into the circulation routes of visitors, who become part of the performanc

Urtzi Grau Jocelyn Froimovich   Italy   The main building is designed as a prefab wood structure that permits opening up to 36 skylights on the saw-tooth roof, making sure that the spaces for theater and for culture are always adequately illuminated throughout the day...

Renzo Piano Building Workshop   Italy   Famous for its cutting-edge treatments, a medical center in partnership with the University of Pittsburgh will be expanding its facilities to provide healthcare services to all Sicilians. The hospital facilities take up an unobstructed, permeable gro

SANAA   Italy   The Japanese firm SANAA – Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa – has been commissioned to build a campus for the Italian supermarket chain Esselunga. The site is is an abandoned industrial zone in Limito di Pioltello (Milan), where the company’s administ

Izaskun Chinchilla   Italy   Anyone going to a house party knows that the interesting things often happen in the kitchen, not in the living room. This can easily be extrapolated to large events like the Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan, around which other events have ar

Sculptures by the Valencian artist Manolo Valdés are on display in Venice through 15 June 2024. St. Mark’s Square is graced by twelve Reina Mariana pieces and a monumental Infanta Margherita, iconic bronze reinterpretations of famous portraits of Mar

Andrés Jaque   The death of the politician and media tycoon refreshes memories of the real-estate ventures of his beginnings, dealings which sealed his power.

Eduardo Prieto   Lumpen people wander the streets of the Quartiere Tuscolano; bicycles wheel from the borgate to the new working-class districts; a helicopter flies over the empty grounds of the Aqua Claudia transporting a Christ statue to St. Peter’s… Such scenes fr

For the Spanish Pavilion at the 18th Venice Architecture Biennale, celebrated in this edition under the motto ‘The Laboratory of the Future,’ the architects Eduardo Castillo-Vinuesa and Manuel Ocaña curated ‘Foodscapes’, a multidisciplinary project t

Ever since Napoleon took possession of the Villa Medici, it has been home to the French Academy in Rome, an institution that continues to take in gifted pensionnaires, and in addition to that, has set in motion a festival involving a competition for

Three decades after starting out in the profession under Renzo Piano, Mario Cucinella (Palermo, 1960) now runs one of Italy’s busiest architecture offices, carrying out from his offices in Bologna and Milan a continuous stream of projects that, more

At the age of 85, Renzo Piano is not one of those masters who take on a late style, and who through it break with their previous output to become daring. The Genoan’s career has been a meditated but constant move forward, and he has stayed true to hi

Far from conveying a conformist image of Latin America, where he has spent most of his life, Paolo Gasparini (born in Gorizia, Italy, in 1934 and nationalized as Venezuelan in 1954) moves away from ethnocentrism through photographs that reflect his c

Since 2013, Gabriele Corbo, Jacopo Costanzo, and Valeria Guerrisi lead WAR (Warehouse of Architecture and Research), a hybrid of mannerist architecture studio and contemporary innovation space with a peculiar vision of the creative process. Far from

With the title ‘The Milk of Dreams,’ the curator Cecilia Alemani has put together an exhibition in which almost all the participants are women.

1933-2021 The son of an Anglo-Italian father who returned to England during World War II, and a relative of architect and critic Ernesto Nathan Rogers, Richard Rogers died on 18 December in London at 88. Though born and raised in Florence, Rogers wou

A sicilian architect based in the city of Bologna, Mario Cucinella has designed a church devoted to St. Maria Goretti in Mormanno, a Calabrian town in the very heart of Pollino National Park. A cross is cut onto the surface of a sober white volume of

Ever since the day he came across a camera in the Paris metropolitan raiway, JR – pseudonym of the street artist Jean René – has taken photographs in black and white and enlarged them to stick on walls of buildings for all to see, in a quest to make

After six months of renovating works, Palazzo Grassi reopens to the public on September 5th with ‘Hypervenezia’, an exhibition specifically dedicated to the city of Venice on the occasion of the 1600th anniversary of its foundation. It presents for t

Heretofore Arles was known for its Roman amphitheater, the same one that Aldo Rossi mentioned as an example of urban permanence. Henceforth – and as a symbol of there really being nothing permanent – the historical and rather depressed city of Arles

Fernanda Canales   The Venice Architecture Biennale, perhaps the most important architectural celebration in the world, focuses this year on the consequences of construction. It tries to encompass buildings and destruction in equal measure, and also the needs of commun

Fulvio Irace   On the 4th of September of 1997, the architect Aldo Rossi died in Milan following a road accident. Aged 66, he was at the peak of his career: in 1990 he had been awarded the Pritzker Prize, he had construction sites running around the world, and impo

Fulvio Irace   With the monograph on Gio Ponti just published by Taschen in a large format (36.5 x 36.5 cm), so far rivaled only by Phaidon with its impressive Le Corbusier Le Grand (33.34 x 43.82 cm), the fortunes of this Milanese architect seem to have reached (f

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Renzo Piano   My first experiences as an architect were threaded together by a search for lightness. It’s very simple. When you are young, you try to do the opposite of what your father’s been doing. My father was making buildings with sand, concrete, and bricks.

The 17th Venice Architecture Biennale was inaugurated on 22 May and will stay open through 21 November, presenting novel proposals for the architectural field. The theme is “How will we live together?” and the curator, Hashim Sarkis, invites architec

1937-2020 The designer, bibliophile, and art collector Franco Maria Ricci expired on 10 September in La Magione, the house-archive near his native Parma where, encouraged by Jorge Luis Borges, he built a mythical labyrinth. He was born in 1937 into a

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