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.
Architects: Laboratorio di Architettura e Design. A small private pool located in the garden of an Italian villa. It is designed to be a ‘machine’ for observing the landscape: two stone walls framing nature, isolating a single point of view like an optical device.
The Number 6, renovation of Palazzo Valperga Galleani, is one of the best representations of architectural salvage, respect for cultural heritage, technology, elegance and sense of beauty.
Residence di Pinamare. Renovation of two housing units by Building Engineering located in the Residence di Pinamare designed in 1972 by the architect S. Hutter.
Villa in Ragusa design by Architrend Architecture Gaetano Manganello & Carmelo Tumino in Sicily. The context is agricultural, a plateau with sandstone walls to divide the various portions of property
The project of the Elisabeth and Helmut Uhl Foundation has been realized thanks to a restricted international architectural competition held in 2009, which saw the participation of fifteen architectural teams from Italy, Switzerland, Austria and Germany.
The technique of two young architects is a step ahead of the game. For them, architecture of the future doesn’t just stop at rendering, it’s a winning combination of creativity and graphics.
Chiarano Primary School is divided into two sections, hosting 10 classrooms for 250 students. The building is porous. It allows the territory and the light to flow inside the spaces.
Travertino Becagli – crafted in the Vaselli workshop at Rapolano Terme where the company is based – was used for the tiling, the steps incorporated in the pool, and the seating around the edge.
OAM Architecture is an idea, a “living creature” that has a genetic modified using new architectural techniques, which allow the addition, deletion or modification of gene elements
Asymptote Architecture commissioned to design a new cultural project on the outskirts of Peccioli, Italy. Peccioli is a pre-renaissance hill town in the Province of Pisa, located about 50 kilometers southwest of Florence. The ‘Parco Degli Angeli’ (Park of Angels) Master Plan and architectural works by Asymptote include a collection of new buildings and parkland, a large covered 800-seat amphitheater and various interactive sculptural features.
Design: Fabio Bolognesi. In Italy, the Turin Transport Group (GTT) has undertaken an important renovation project, in conjunction with the infrastructure management body Infratrasporti.To, to restore several railway buildings within the province of Turin. This sensitive project involved the removal of asbestos fibre cement roofing in six regional stations.
Design: Studio FUKSAS, Architects. “Suspending a volume inside another. Seeing the sky through the concrete from the outside, into the inside, toward the outside”. Massimiliano Fuksas
Design: Architettura Matassoni. The set is strongly characterized by large elements of uptake of natural light that they become really towers and outer bearing elements of the composition; the whole is such a device to selection of the natural light, oriented so as to optimize the internal visual comfort.
Design: Architettura Matassoni. Project to achieve a single-family residential building in Arezzo. The work done by the client in the nursery sector and the natural vocation of the place with trees of great value, have inspired the basic choice to extend the interior spaces and their functional areas to the outside.