

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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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...
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
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
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
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...
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
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
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
Five designs have qualified in the competition of ideas for a multipurpose building – along with a system of landscaped public spaces – that would enlarge Zaha Hadid’s MAXXI (Museum of 21st-Century Arts). The scheme drawn up by Paris-based estudio
The Italian-Spanish team formed by FRPO Rodríguez y Oriol Arquitectos (Pablo Oriol, Fernando Rodríguez), Walk Architecture & Landscape (Juan Tur Mc Glone), and SD Partners (Massimo, Giuliani, Alessandro Viganò, Beatrice Meroni) placed first in the Ma
After winning the international competition for the Fondation François Pinault pour l’Art Contemporain in Paris, this project had to be abandoned due to a series of problems. Shortly after, the studio received a new commission from the client in Veni
This detached dwelling is located amid the rich natural environment on the outskirts of Treviso, Italy. The commission included both site planning and layout, so the project allowed great flexibility and freedom. The only request presented by the cli
In spite of being an international fashion company, Benetton still preserves its original headquarters in Treviso, a small town in the northwest of Italy located little more than an hour by car from Venice. On this site the company commissioned the d
The Magazzino 26 building in the Porto Vecchio of Trieste is to be refurbished for a new cultural use. Striking a dialogue between historical and modern elements, an element will be added on the roof, in the central volume and along the vertical axis
A parish center located in the very heart of Calabria presents solutions for an architecture that is loaded with references but does not forget to incorporate sustainable mechanisms. The temple is fitted into a sinuous white volume around which the S
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 Miguel 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
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
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
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
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
1941-2020 A father of ‘radical architecture’ and coauthor of one of the most influential architectural visions of the second half of the 20th century, the Continuous Monument, Adolfo Natalini died on 23 January 2020 at 78 years of age. A graduate of
“How will we live together?” This is the title of the 17th Venice Architecture Biennale, which opens with 61 participating countries. The motto reflects a turn toward social, even political concerns that has been taking place in the biennial since ov
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