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.
Design: AllesWirdGut, Architects. Three edgy structures provide the new iconic entrance to the UNESCO World Heritage Site of the Dolomites. Fanning out along the southern edge of the square, the three volumes frame the space.
Design: Estudio Flume. The merger between design, local materials and techniques will be implemented to respond the needs identified in small agro food factories, where people will locally build cells that can grow according to the demand suiting different scales of production.
Rimini architecture, Adriatic coast, Italy – best new Emilia-Romagna buildings, architects & images – info on contemporary Rimini buildings, East Italian architecture developments
Design: iarchitects. The intervention converted the space of the residency, a seventies building distinguished by a complex geometry in a new two levels house, flood with natural light and open to the surrounding hills.
Design: OBR Paolo Brescia / Tommaso Principi / Michel Desvigne Paysagiste. First prize in the international competition to design the new Central Park in Prato, Italy. The jury, chaired by Bernard Tschumi, selected the winner among 10 finalists, that all expressed new ideas on the contemporary city and on its relationship with the landscape.
Interior Design: Molteni&Co. A few meters away from the beach Li Cuncheddi, on the granitic headland of Capo Ceraso in Northern Sardinia, CalaCuncheddi 4 Stars Superior Hotel reopens its doors to the public completely renewed.
Reggio Emilia architecture, northern Italy – best new Emilia-Romagna region buildings, architects & images – info on contemporary Italian buildings, architecture developments
Design: Adelfio Anello Architetti. Design of the buvette of theatre and the bookshop in the adjoining room overlooking Piazza Verdi, in order to achieve a cafe open to the city, even outside of the show times and a bookshop with merchandising for the theater.
Design: Roy David Studio. This holiday villa in the romantic landscape of great Tuscany is owned by an Israeli family. The Tel Aviv-based architecture & interior design practice preserved the original structural style of the old stable in the redevelopment.
Design: Joseph Grima/Space Caviar. Arcipelago di Ocno, a new aquatic installation on the Italian Capital of Culture 2016 waterfront by this Genoa-based architectural studio. The outline evokes the lotus.
Design: Pedevilla Architects. A rising silhouette gives an impression of the upward striving internal space sequence. Square-shaped windows refer to significant points in the alpine landscape.
Design: Laboratorio di Architettura e Design. The site’s peculiarity was the presence of olive trees, while the architecture of the villa, in its simplicity, had an indentation on the façade, placed at the exit to the garden: these two elements were used as starting points in the design.
Design: Vittorio Bonadè Bottino, architect. The tower is conceived as a single, endless dormitory with helical development, able to accommodate about 800 children of employees of the company FIAT.
Design: Pedevilla Architects. Hamlets, also called viles in the regional dialect, are small urban settlements, a unique cultural & architectural tradition which evolved throughout the centuries.