New Italian architecture projects with building news and architectural images, plus architects background. Italy building news from across this South European country.
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.
The new Headquarters and Production Complex for Pratic, designed by GEZA (architects Stefano Gri and Piero Zucchi). The complex demonstrates the leaps architecture has made in terms of innovative and sustainable design in regards to industrial buildings.
Casa Ceno is a single-family house (300sq/mts) designed in a strict relationship with the surrounding environment and an almost obsessive research not to alter the landscape.
MedaTeca, the new library of Meda’s township design by Alterstudio Partners, a modern cultural hub of more than 1.900 sq. m. entirely devoted to culture, information and spare time, connected with others 30 libraries of BrianzaBiblioteche’s System
The house was originally designed with the elements and materials related to the tradition, the random aggregation of local plant generated two apartments had a pitched roof with a complex and confusing series of ridges and flashings.
The client decides to leave his nice apartment in downtown Torino to move his family to his hometown. He restores a big shed, little more than a roof in ruins, adjacent to the little house he restored with his wife in the years after their wedding.
MARC is commissioned to transform an elegant mansion from the beginning of the 20th century into an efficient contemporary office building. To do that it needs to perform radical and pragmatic interventions, optimizing the use of space.
Domino Torino: transformation of a 20th century building into a web-agency, Turin. A big web-marketing agency moves into a conventional four-storey building out of the city center.
The proposed typology renews the “rank houses” which are manipulated and reinterpreted by the Milan Office to improve at best the site characteristics and the context, which is the natural park of Serio River.
Rehabilitating an inoperative railway through environmentally awaress means, thereby transforming this area into a promenade that adheres to its area’s environmental constraints.
UNStudio’s harbour front regeneration project, Ponte Parodi in Genoa, will be presented at the MAPIC in Cannes later this month as one of the most iconic waterfront developments currently being realised.
Hans Klotz Ltd. is a long-established and successful wholesale company for fruit and vegetables with headquarter in Bozen-Sigmundskron. The new offices should be integrated into an existing building on the company area.
The company Blaas in Bolzano is specialized in electro-mechanics. In the new head office the company presents its new product range and offers repair service.
Giacomuzzi Ltd. in Kaltern is a modern plumbing firm specialized in sustainable and ecologic technologies. The new headquarters building reflects the future-oriented core-business through the architectural appearance and sustainability.
Richard Meier & Partners design for a new residence in Italy. The project is part of a complex designed by distinguished architecture firms from Europe and the US.
Multifunctional Center in Sappada – the winning result of the first prize in the International Contest organized by the “Fundacion of Architecture Belluno-Dolomiti”.
Along with spaces for offices and showrooms, the building houses the logistics warehouse, a shop, multi-functional halls as well as a fitness centre for the staff and a company crèche.
Designed by regimental engineer Franz von Scholl, it consists of three autonomous sections: the upper, middle and lower fortress levels. It has clear and simple classicist lines; it is functional and impregnable.