New Mestre Hospital, Venice, Italy

The New Mestre Hospital is an organic structure comprising a glass-faced in-patient block that emerges from a much more extensive services and outpatient block, which is covered with greenery.

Rimini Waterfront Development Italy, New Building

Rimini Waterfront Development design by Foster + Partners

Foster + Partners presented designs for a new waterfront development in Rimini. Revealed at a public presentation to the City last week, the proposal is designed to strengthen the relationship between the town centre and the seafront and to create a year-round attraction for an international tourist industry.

Lake Como House, Property Italy

They wanted to built this new house next to their one, in the garden faces the lake, and they wished an architecture inspired to the “razionalismo comasco”, the typical architecture of the thirties which had as main figure the architect Giuseppe Terragni.

UIA World Congress of Architecture Turin, Italy

plug_in is a cultural association founded in 2003. It operates as an experimental workshop used by members Emanuele Piccardo, Luisa Siotto and Alessandro Lanzetta to promote the propagation of architecture and contemporary visual arts.

Strata Hotel Sesto, Italy: Plasma Studio Building

Located on a steep hillside in the Italian Dolomites, this newly-built hotel was developed as a free-flowing topography–indexed and organized by a series of timber strips–and the serial sequence of apartment units perpendicular to it.

Arezzo Law Court, Italy: Tuscany Building

Arezzo Law Court Italy, Tuscany building

Arezzo Law Court, Tuscany building design by Studio Nicoletti Associati: near the Medici’s Fortress, inside an historical park, the new building houses the main courtrooms and the Hall of Justice President headquarter and is linked to a neoclassical building, once a large hospital, to be restored and used for offices and archives.

Marchesi School Estate Pisa: Luigi Pellegrin

The appeal was launched by the Zevi Foundation against the demolition of the Marchesi school estate, by the architect Luigi Pellegrin: “should the process go on, this would represent a new attack to a cornerstone of the modern postwar architecture”.

Sesto Fiorentino Gymnasium, Italy: Fabio Capanni

Sesto Fiorentino Gymnasium, Italy

Each and every project realized by Leonardo da Vinci, whether a building or a model airplane, was inspired by the human body. As such, this gym on the outskirts of Sesto Fiorentino, near Florence, can be considered a tribute to Leonardo’s work and genius

Leaning Tower of Pisa, Historic Architecture

The Miracles Square of Pisa (Piazza dei Miracoli, named by Italian writer Grabriele d’Annunzio) is one of the most beautiful and most visited squares of Italy, famous and unforgettable due to the silhouette of the Leaning Tower, that is in fact the Bell Tower of the Cathedral.