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
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
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
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
Located on the edge of the historic town center of Turin, the Torre Intesa Sanpaolo stands 166 meters tall in two parts: a public and technical plinth, and 26 floors of offices crowned by a greenhouse-lookout containing a restaurant, a hall for exhib
In Susa Valley, the train station is conceived as an extension of the surrounding spaces, aiming to connect with the wooded landscape and to transform the nearby paved areas into new public spaces. Outside, the roof of metallic slats uses a contempor
One of the images most admired by Le Corbusier was that photo of the Fiat cars racing along the test track that crowned the Lingotto factory in Turin. This building, similar in size to the other modern giant (the Karl-Marx-Hof in Vienna), has become
