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.
Richard Meier & Partners has completed its first pedestrian and vehicular bridge. The new Cittadella Bridge is a precast-concrete and painted-steel modern structure which connect the city of Alessandria, Italy with the citadel across the Tanaro River in Italy.
At the foot of the Dolomites, this sustainable house is designed by Perathoner Architects in a “peculiar architectural style”. Modern architecture with clean lines also uses traditional architectural materials. High energy efficiency standards respect environmental benchmarks.
Located near Piazza Castello in the historic heart of the city, a new building designed by Iotti + Pavarani Architetti with engineer Roberto Tosetti from Artecna. The 23,500 sqm building contains 800 work stations plus a conference room for 280 people.
Architects: tissellistudioarchitetti
The flat is located in the heart of Cesena’s historical centre, a privileged position which allows the visual contemplation of an outstanding urban and natural landscape.
Architects: tissellistudioarchitetti. The site is located in the Padana plain. The architecture of the existing buildings created problems about how to engage with them. The volume appeared strongly and gloomily distinguished among them.
Architects: tissellistudioarchitetti. The vc1 project has created a residential destination via a striking building facade: strong pure white bands – a la Guggenheim New York – run horizontally with deep recesses lined with dark fenestration.
Architects: tissellistudioarchitetti. The aim of the project was to revitalize a dismissed industrial area with a residential building. The challenge was to work within the parameters of good design and a low budget to provide the city with quality architecture.
Design: Stefano Boeri Architetti. Opening news for new pavilion building: the first of four projects to allow people living in Norcia to use temporary collective spaces, while expecting the reconstruction of their public buildings damaged by the October 30th 2016 earthquake.
Architects: LAD. Container Home Italia, the client, is a start-up founded in 2014 that works to incorporate 40’ HC and 20′ HC containers into residential buildings.
70F architecture and Le Ville di Trevinano will soon start the build of an earth-sheltered boutique resort in one of Italy’s most beautiful areas. Underground building has not only energetic but also aesthetic benefits; the resort is hardly noticeable from the overlying hills.
Architects: tissellistudioarchitetti. The client inherited a villa from a beloved aunt and wanted to keep alive the associated memories and affections in the renovation designed to inject it with new life and adapt it to the needs of their family.
Design: Zaha Hadid Architects. The new rail station at Napoli Afragola is designed as one of southern Italy’s key interchange stations serving four high speed intercity lines, three inter-regional lines and a local commuter line.
Design: Studio DiDeA Architetti Associati. The architects have converted a small former clothes shop – 38 square meters – making it special by the unveiling, during the refurbishment works, of some frescoes dating back to the late Nineteenth Century.
Architects: studio DiDeA. Entering the house you approach a double space – on the east side the kitchen and dining room, on the west side the living – separated by a sliding glazed door, which emphasizes the brightness of the house.
Architectural Award organised by Regional Council for Tuscany, Florence and Pisa Orders of Architects and the National Building Contractors’ Association (ANCE) to promote architectural excellence and its culture.
Contemporary Italian religious Architecture – lighting article about a new church complex in the province of Bologna: the construction of the new church and aell tower,
Design: Massimiliano Fuksas Architecture. “The suspension of a volume within another. See the sky through the concrete, outside, inside, outside”, Massimiliano Fuksas, architect.