Alvisi Kirimoto + Partners   Italy   The Italian practice of Massimo Alvisi and Junko Kirimoto has designed a new exhibition pathway for the Basilica di Massenzio in Rome, commissioned by the Colosseum Archaeoogical Park. The purpose is to bring out all the historical value of the monum

Archiplan Studio   Italy   In the small town of San Giacomo delle Segnate, nestled in the agrarian landscape of the Po Valley, stands this preschool which reinterprets local rural architecture through simple volumes and gentle colors. The building is composed of basic forms, w

Studio di Architettura Zermani Associati   Italy   Nestled in the mountainous environs of Varano dei Marchesi, in the Italian province of Parma, a new winery designed by Paolo Zermani and Eugenio Tessoni (Estudio Zermani Associati) blends with sobriety and sensitivity into the region’s rural landscap

Studio Anne Holtrop   Italy   The pavilion of the Kingdom of Bahrain for Expo Milano showcases the country’s agrarian heritage, which stems from the ancient civilization of Dilmun. With ten distinctive fruit gardens, containing trees that were fruitbearing throughout the six-mont

SOLUM   Italy   Although Daedalus built the labyrinth in Crete, it is now on the other side of the Ionian Sea that an intricate, inward-looking construction rises, opening out to the surroundings on only one of its sides, towards the sea horizon. With the simplicity

Associates Architecture   Italy   Brescia marble may not be as famous as the Carrara that sculptors like Pisano and Michelangelo used, but the basin around the city is one of the largest producers of ornamental stone in Italy. In celebration of both its geological diversity and its t

Olivieri Office   Italy   The new Faculty of Engineering of the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (UniBZ) is the outcome of a competition organized by the NOI Techpark Südtirol/Alto Adige, won in 2018 by the Italian firm Olivieri Office, based in Genoa and Trent. It is located

Martino Picchedda   Italy   Of what in the 19th century was an agrarian landowner’s residence, all that remain are some pieces of masonry walls that have now been consolidated to form an open-air exhibition space. The decay of stonework faces was arrested by clearing them of ve

Renzo Piano Building Workshop   Italy   The new bridge over the Polcevera is a strategic junction for Genoa, Liguria, and the whole of Italy. Following the collapse of the Morandi bridge in 2018, its rapid reconstruction aims to become a model for the renovation of Italian infrastructures

Renzo Piano Building Workshop   Italy   The project idea is that of a building raised off the ground to inhabit a light, glowing space with the eyes of the young residents – key protagonists of the project – level with the tree tops. The idea of ‘alleviating’ comes from the same root as ‘l

Zarcola Architetti   Italy   Rustic but refined like the pastoral characters of the eclogues, a small dwelling nestled into a village in the Lessini Mountains emerges from what was an old barn, between the stone walls of which a structure of fine wooden laths, set three centimet

Carlo Ratti   Italy   CRA-Carlo Ratti Associati was commissioned to design Quisimangia (Here we eat), a dining hall for employees of Mutti, a leading firm for tomato-based products. The location is Montechiarugolo, in the province of Parma, and the premises stand out for

ARW Associates   Italy   A work of ARW Associates in collaboration with Brescia Infrastrutture, the new theater in Brescia, in Italy’s Lombardy region, falls under ‘Oltre la strada,’ a larger operation to reurbanize the industrial area around Via Milano. In this project, red

Herzog & de Meuron   Italy   Located in the village of Blevio directly on the shore of Lago di Como, the hotel sits in a parklike garden and is housed within a collection of buildings dispersed throughout the lush landscape. At its heart is the historic Villa Roccabruna, disting

OMA - Office for Metropolitan Architecture Andrea Tabocchini   Italy   The new Gallery of the Kings at Turin’s Museo Egizio has been inaugurated. The remodeling was carried out as part of preparations for the 2024 celebration of the institution’s bicentennial. In 2023, the scheme drawn up by OMA in collaboration with An

G124 Renzo Piano   Italy   The lack of facilities and trees had turned Parco dei Salici into a run-down place in disuse. Communication with the neighbors’ association now in charge of its management was an essential part in the redevelopment of the space, where now all so

G124 Renzo Piano   Italy   Though it is a pleasant green space, Parco XXII Aprile is in Crocetta, one of the most conflictive neighborhoods in Modena. This intervention aims to redefine small new spaces for leisure and for reunion that can gradually reactivate social life in t

G124 Renzo Piano   Italy   Despite being one of the most populated neighborhoods in the city, Commenda Est only has one plaza. The project exploits the potential of several empty spaces to join them and create a quality plaza at the service of the area’s multiple realities...

G124 Renzo Piano   Italy   The Affectivity and Maternity Module is a gathering space that replaces the conventional visiting rooms, anodyne and surveilled, for female inmates. This temporary construction of a family unit recreates the domestic dimension to favor future social

Miralles Tagliabue EMBT   Italy   The basic idea is to create an urban park integrated with the naturalness of the beaches and the sea, with the purpose of promoting culture, well-being, and sport, through various functions and activities that aspire to extend the use of the park thr

Miralles Tagliabue EMBT   Italy   In 2004, the city of Naples invited, under the motto AAA (Architecture, Archaeology, and Art) invited prominent firms to propose designs for the new metropolitan line. The plan, aside from improving the connection between the outskirts and the city c

Manuel Bouzas   Italy   As part of the third Festival des Cabanes, held at Villa Medici in Rome, the temporary pavilion Cabane 7L gives visitors the chance to enjoy views of the Renaissance gardens through the treetops. Raised entirely with firwood boasting sustainability c

Guillermo Vázquez Consuegra   Italy   The Seville-based firm Vázquez Consuegra has won the competition to build the town hall of Montegiorgio, Italy, on the remains of the old Convent of San Francisco. The project includes refurbishing one of the elements left of the monastic complex, th

Alberto Ballesteros   Venice has been agonizing from success for decades, but the profession remains bent on rethinking the world every two years through an exhibition that revolutionizes the Lagoon. Aware of the Biennale’s contradictions, and in general of the day-by-day

Enrique Morillo   “We are all pilgrims who seek Italy.” As Goethe’s poem notes, with the popularization of the Grand Tour in the 18th century, il bel paese became the quintessential destination and few could help succumbing to the search for the ideal of beauty in its

Fulvio Irace   Just two days before the inauguration of the nineteenth Venice Architecture Biennale, the Milan Triennale kicked off its twenty-fourth Esposizione Internazionale, titled ‘Inequalities.’ Following ‘Broken Nature’ in 2019 and ‘Unknown Unknowns’ in 2022

Alberto Ballesteros   Enrique Morillo   The 19th Venice Architecture Biennale has sparked a considerable degree of interest, thanks to its innovative approach and its commitment to the cause of addressing today’s challenges. Does this mean anything to you? Is it not the description of all

With the passion for design that only a Milanese can have, Italo Rota lived his life entirely devoted to creating whatever he was asked to, whether furniture pieces, books, pavilions, or museums. And with equal relish he put together an impressive Wu

Edoardo Narne   “You cannot change the world, but you can do small things that can change someone’s life.” This is one of Renzo Piano’s maxims, so when in 2013 he was appointed Senator for Life by the then Italian president Giorgio Napolitano, he did not hesitate t

“A modern architect should know how to design anything, from an object to the streets of the city, because everything is connected.” Such was the vital outlook of Gae Aulenti, an indefatigable precursor whose buildings, installations, and furniture p

Ever since 1953 the scene of the derbies that tend to paralyze the city, the Stadio Olimpico will soon cease to be the home of Rome’s two rival sports clubs. Coinciding with its centenary, what is nicknamed I Giallorossi shall be leaving the house to

Tras casi treinta años de trámites burocráticos, falta de fondos, un terremoto e incluso la sombra alargada de la camorra, la línea 1 del metro de Nápoles abrió en 1993 conectando con modernos apeaderos las colinas y el borde del casco. En sus sucesi

Far from being just technical tools, diagrams organize knowledge, anticipate forms, translate systems. Often devoid of ornament, context, and scale, they claim an apparent neutrality that reinforces their power: that of persuading without having to o

Stefano Corbo   When approaching Naples from the sea, one particular building immediately stands out, emerging from the dense fabric of the historic city and dramatically impacting its skyline: the infamous skyscraper that was built for the insurance company Societa

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

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