Italy

All four seasons coexist in Milan garden proposed by Carlo Ratti

July 13, 2017 Eleanor Gibson 0

Italian architect Carlo Ratti has revealed plans for a covered garden in Milan, which would use climate-control technology to allow visitors to experience spring, summer, autumn and winter at any time of year. Carlo Ratti Associati designed The Garden of the Four Seasons to offer city-dwellers a closer glimpse of nature’s cycles. Summer, winter, autumn and spring are represented by four

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Acne Studios opens pink-ceilinged flagship store in Milan’s Brera district

July 9, 2017 Alice Morby 0

Acne is the latest design brand to favour pink for interiors, using it to colour the ceiling in its new Milan store. The Swedish fashion brand has opened its first Milan flagship on Piazza del Carmine in the Brera district – an area of the city populated with designer shops and galleries. Acne was keen

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Carlo Ratti reveals Office 3.0 workspace that promises to end “thermostat wars”

June 17, 2017 Alice Morby 0

Italian architect Carlo Ratti has transformed a Turin building into an office space with a personalised “environmental bubble” for every worker. Office 3.0 – first previewed in plans in the middle of last year – is the new headquarters for the Agnelli Foundation cultural institution in Turin, Italy. Ratti’s firm, Carlo Ratti Associati, renovated the

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Groin-vaulted ceiling takes centre stage in revamped 18th-century property

June 11, 2017 Lizzie Fison 0

Italian studio Duearchitetti has renovated an apartment in an 18th-century building in Varese, which features a central doric column, a stone manger and a groin-vaulted ceiling. Once owned by a wealthy Milanese family, the building was recently divided into apartments and completely restored. Locally based Duearchitetti was then invited to overhaul one of the building’s ground-floor apartments, called Casa AG. The

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Groin-vaulted ceiling takes centre stage in revamped 18th-century property

June 11, 2017 Lizzie Fison 0

Italian studio Duearchitetti has renovated an apartment in an 18th-century building in Varese, which features a central doric column, a stone manger and a groin-vaulted ceiling. Once owned by a wealthy Milanese family, the building was recently divided into apartments and completely restored. Locally based Duearchitetti was then invited to overhaul one of the building’s ground-floor apartments, called Casa AG. The

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Zaha Hadid Architects completes first phase of high-speed rail station in Naples

June 8, 2017 Jessica Mairs 0

Zaha Hadid Architects has completed the first section of a new high-speed train station on the outskirts of southern Italian city Naples, which is set to open this weekend. Napoli-Afragola High Speed Train Station was conceived as a bridge, with the concourse elevated above the train tracks. London-based Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) envisions that it will be

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Monolithic concrete house by Bergmeisterwolf emerges from an Alpine hillside

May 20, 2017 Alyn Griffiths 0

This bunker-like house in South Tyrol by local studio Bergmeisterwolf features an angular cutout that shelters a balcony overlooking the nearby valley. The house is situated next to a farmhouse occupied by the owner’s parents on a sloping site near the village of Neustift and close to the border with Austria. The building rises above

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Bergmeisterwolf reinterprets the traditional log cabin with Twisted House apartments

May 17, 2017 Alyn Griffiths 0

Architecture studio Bergmeisterwolf has applied vernacular log cladding to this group of holiday apartments, which extend around a courtyard in the Italian alps. Contained within angular volumes, the Twisted House apartments were designed for a hillside site in South Tyrol, close to Bergmeisterwolf’s studio in the town of Brixen. Five accommodation units are contained within a

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Bergmeisterwolf reinterprets the traditional log cabin with Twisted House apartments

May 17, 2017 Alyn Griffiths 0

Architecture studio Bergmeisterwolf has applied vernacular log cladding to this group of holiday apartments, which extend around a courtyard in the Italian alps. Contained within angular volumes, the Twisted House apartments were designed for a hillside site in South Tyrol, close to Bergmeisterwolf’s studio in the town of Brixen. Five accommodation units are contained within a

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Andreas Gruber embeds minimal concrete house into Tyrolean hillside

May 15, 2017 Lizzie Crook 0

A three-storey house made entirely of concrete has been set into the steep slope of the Eisack Valley in South Tyrol by local architect Andreas Gruber. The mountainous setting in northern Italy came with a number of restrictions and regulations, which called for an innovative design that was sympathetic to its Alpine surroundings. “The special climatic conditions in

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