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We feature Olympic Spa Hotel, San Giovanni di Fassa, Vigo, Trentino, by NOA. This new extension lets rooms nestle in the Alpine meadow, and creates a surprising sauna overlooking the forest.
We also show Villa Selvadolce, Bordighera, Liguria, by Giordano Hadamik, the Brazilian Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale curated by Gabriela de Matos and Paulo Tavares, The Number 6, Via Alfieri, Turin, by bp+p architecture studio.
Finally, we post Ferrero Technical Center in Alba, Piedmont, by Frigerio Design Group in the heart of the Langhe region. It represents a new level of integration between industrial architecture, natural landscape, sustainability of processes and well-being for workers.
Bologna Central Station Building. The conditions of the city all round and the various infrastructures to be provided has developed the idea of the station as a tentative to string together different urban needs overlapping.
Andrea Maffei Architects do not believe that a building nearly 90 meters high in this specific location, not far from downtown, is the most appropriate response for a measured city like Bergamo.
The building borders with a residential court on the north, with a public green area on the west, with a residential building on the south built in adherence and with other residential buildings on the East and partially in adherence.
The intervention area is located in a residential neighborhood in the center of Intra (Verbania), consisting of residential buildings and a plaza parking space.
The new headquarters for Casillodesign by Alvisi Kirimoto + Partners are in Corato, the outskirts of the city of Bari, Italy, in its industrial zone. The surface area of the intervention is of 6,000 sm, part of which will be dedicated to green areas
The new building is the research and development center for Italcementi and it is intended to reflect the company’s position of leadership, technological advancement and commitment to research in the use of concrete.
Dolomitenblick. The building is located on a hillside in the Dolomites, at the end of a residential area. The volume has been developed mainly from its pragmatic functional request to host 6 independent apartments with one common circulation.
The new holiday residential complex is situated on a hill which towers above Spotorno, nowadays a touristic town, but in origin it was a farming area.
Planning a funeral building means designing an item which has a strong symbolic value. It means dealing not only with a specific area where it will be built, but especially with the spiritual values which belong to a community.
HOK has been selected as lead architect for the Ri.MED Biomedical Research and Biotechnology Center (BRBC) near Palermo, Sicily in Southern Italy. HOK’s team was selected from a field of 14 entrants in an international design competition.
Benetton Nursery in Treviso. We built a square box composed of nine smaller squares. The center square emerges to bring light from the heights of the vestibule. The classrooms are arranged in the surrounding squares.
Work on Torino Porta Susa railway station, the frst Italian station on the high speed Paris-Rome line, resumed at the end of 2009. The gateway into Italy from northern Europe, Torino Porta Susa is designed as an urban locus.
The church of St. Michael the Archangel (1735) stands in the centre of Borgo di Terzo, near Bergamo, Italy. Cracks were clearly visible in the front elevation masonry, indicating serious building damage.
Article on the new church in Pescara written for e-architect by Carlo Pozzi, Professor of Architectural Design at the Faculty of Architecture of Pescara.
The design by architects von Gerkan, Marg and Partners (gmp), which was honoured with first prize in an international competition, converts a former industrial heritage building to the north of Bologna into a modern technology park.
The city is our space and do not possess other, Perec writes, but when a place becomes truly our city?
The building evokes some of the characteristics elements of the Marche architecture, especially through the use of materials such as brick, typical of rural constructions.