Italy   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

FRPO Walk Architecture & Landscape SD Partners Architettura e Ingegneria   Italy   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 th

Tadao Ando   Italy   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

Tadao Ando   Italy   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

Tadao Ando   Italy   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

Guillermo Vázquez Consuegra   Italy   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

Mario Cucinella Architects   Italy   The cross shape that cuts the sober white volume of undulating forms creates the access to a free-flowing room where the congregation space and the side chapels are fused together under a cloudlike, textile ceiling that enhances sunlight as it flows

Miralles Tagliabue EMBT   Italy   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.

MAIO   Italy   The intervention carried out in the Spanish Pavilion at the 59th Venice Biennale plays upon an error, and the result is an installation of minimalist roots, on a 1:1 scale. The error is that the pavilion was built slightly out of line with respect to

David Chipperfield   Italy   Built on the north side of Piazza de San Marco, one of the most recognizable squares in the world, the Procuratie Vecchie was designed by the architects Mauro Codussi, Bartolomeo Bon and Jacopo Sansovino in the first half of the 16th century, under t

Jesús Aparicio Donaire Milans Arquitectos   Italy   The proejct ‘Futuro Precedent’ (Future Precedent) – drawn up by the Spanish practices of Jesús Aparicio and Donaire Milans, in collaboration with the local architects and heritage experts Francesco Cellini and María Margarita Segarra with the restore

BDR bureau   Italy   In Turin’s Nizza Millefonti district, the firm BDR bureau – Alberto Bottero and Simona Della Rocca – has worked on a school first built in the 1960s, adapting its architecture to the new pedagogical needs of students in the 11–14 age range. The entra

David Chipperfield Arup Associates   Italy   Part of a whole revamp of Santa Giulia – a former industrial zone located a few kilometers from downtown Milan – based on a masterplan drawn up by Foster+Partners, this new stadium for sport and culture events was designed by David Chipperfield Archi

Tomas Ghisellini Architects   Italy   The heterogeneous stage proposed rests with systematic discipline on an orthogonal matrix of 2x2 meters, to establish rules and a ‘do it yourself’ philosophy that creates endless options for altering and extending the original plan...  

Flores & Prats   Italy   The installation for the 2018 Biennale worked with the idea of liquid light to reproduce, on a 1:1 scale, a skylight from Sala Beckett in Barcelona (an old co-op building converted into a theater), and to recreate the air of the original space with l

Barozzi Veiga   Italy   As a complement to the activities of this well-known winery in the municipality of Bardolino, the Guerrieri Rizzardi family commissioned a project to add a small guest house for overnight visitors, along with a space for winetasting. The chosen site

Barozzi Veiga   Italy   The project is the outcome of a private commission of Guerrieri Rizzardi – a family-owned estate producer of wine and olive oil. The client asked for an extension of their current winery, along with a museum, a small auditorium, a point of sale, and

Populous   Italy   The football clubs Inter Milan and AC Milan have announced that Stadio Giuseppe Meazza, commonly known as the San Siro, will be replaced by a stadium designed by Populous. Named ‘The Cathedral,’ the design draws inspiration from two of Milan’s major

El Equipo Mazzanti   Italy   The proposal is based on an open system concept prepared to accommodate the present and future growth of the campus, an architectural organism with the capacity to spark new uses and habits... 

Carlana Mezzalira Pentimalli   Italy   The Treviso-based practice of Michel Carlana, Luca Mezzalira, and Curzio Pentimalli built the new Music School of Bressanone, which was founded in 1961 and is among the most important cultural institutions in the Alpine region of South Tyrol. The ti

Stefano Boeri Architetti   Italy   The accidental fall of a young boy into an abyss of Rome’s Esquiline Hill in the 15th century revealed that cavities until then believed to be natural were partly buried vestiges of the Domus Aurea, Nero’s lavish villa, which his successors had hidde

Alberto Campo Baeza   Italy   Heaven on Earth. That is how I have more than once described my intention when designing the houses I have built, every single one of them. This is the latest. All the more reason to make it a piece of Heaven on Earth. In Venice. It is an honor for a

SANAA   Italy   A result of the international call for ideas convened by Bocconi University to extend its facilities in Milan, the project for the new campus sits on grounds located south of the current university campus, between a park and the urban environment clo

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

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

The Guardian   Angela Giuffrida   Retractable floor will allow visitors to see the ‘majesty of the monument’ from its centre, says culture minister. The floor of Rome’s Colosseum, where gladiators once fought against each other and wild animals, is set to be restored to its former gl

Alberto Ballesteros   Like the children of Oedipus, the San Giorgio Bridge is the fruit of tragedy. That of 14 August 2018, when the Morandi Bridge collapsed, killing 43 and leaving hundreds homeless. The destruction dramatically cut two neighborhoods apart and eliminated

The architect, designer, scenographer, artist, and critic Achilllina di Enrico Bo (1914-1992), known as Lina, has been recognized with the Special Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement in memoriam of the 17th Venice Architecture Biennale, which will b

At the foot of the imposing Sciliar massif in the Dolomites, the popular Parc Hotel Florian has been expanded, with ten new suites grouped in a stand-alone two-floor complex that emulates tree houses. In order not to break the continuity of the surro

Luis Fernández-Galiano   How did the prosperity of the West come about? Two monumental works by American professors offer unexpected answers. Walter Scheidel, who teaches classical culture, history, and human biology at Stanford, argues that it was the failure of the Roman E

In Rome, the National Museum of 21st Century Art – or MAXXI for short – will from 26 February through 1 August bring together more than 800 drawings, plans, photographs, and models of the prolific work of Aldo Rossi, not to mention letters. The item

Juli Capella   Nonconformist and of strong convictions, Enzo Mari through his designs extolled the value of artisanship in the face of industrialization.

The firms headed by the Italian architects Andrea Botter and Emanuele Bressan worked together in designing a congress and exhibition center located in Agordo, a municipality in the province of Belluno, in the Veneto region. For the project they drew

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