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 project envisages a close and direct relationship between the open space and the building that faces it: the main facade of the new building becomes the central element of the square and remains symmetrical with respect to the design of the central space.
Floor zero is the operating heart of the new Surgery Centre. This floor is 50 cm above Via Lungadige, so that it is completely secured against any danger flooding by the River Adige.
Villa con piscina, Como house, contemporary Italian residence design by Marco Castelletti Architect – modern property ion North Italy: info & photos
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.
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.
The bathing establishment is a pavilion inside the Park of Segrino Lake on the flat area of the beach on the southern part of the area.
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.
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.
The workshop is open to designers (architect, planners, product designers, landscape architects..) at the end of their academic studies or during the development of their work at graduate level.
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, 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.
A striking design concept by international architects Chapman Taylor and Claudio Lucchin & Archittetti Associati (CL&AA) has been chosen as the future look to regenerate a key part of Bolzano city in northern Italy.
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”.
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
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.