Italy

David/Nicolas balances classic and contemporary in renovated Gio Ponti apartment

August 1, 2024 Douglas Jardim 0

French-Lebanese design studio David/Nicolas has refurbished a Milan apartment from the 1920s, bringing in contemporary details while retaining features added by Italian architect Gio Ponti. The art deco-style apartment, originally designed by Mario Borgaro in 1923, was refurbished by Ponti in 1952. Since then, much of the fit-out was torn away by the apartment’s previous

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Populous set to design stadium “inspired by classical Roman architecture” for AS Roma

July 25, 2024 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Italian football club AS Roma has unveiled the design concept for a stadium that is planned for the Pietralata area in Rome. Designed by architecture studio Populous, the stadium would be a permanent home for AS Roma, which has shared the Stadio Olimpico with rival club Lazio since 1953. The stadium, which is expected to

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Eligo Studio creates homely Milan showroom for winemaker Masciarelli

July 10, 2024 Alyn Griffiths 0

A display unit wrapped in burgundy-coloured leather forms the centrepiece of this apartment-style showroom in Milan, designed by local firm Eligo Studio for Italian winemaker Masciarelli Tenute Agricole. The showroom on Corso Magenta was conceived by Eligo Studio as a warm and welcoming space, where visiting clients and members of the press can sample Masciarelli’s

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Carsten Höller adds Doubt Staircase to 18th century Venetian palazzo

June 25, 2024 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Artist Carsten Höller has created a spiral staircase with an incline of five degrees to make users uneasy at the Palazzo Diedo in Venice. Höller installed the piece, which was designed both as an artwork and a functional staircase, as part of a renovation of the 18th century Palazzo Diedo by Italian practice Silvo Fassi.

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Messner Architects clads RVTK apartments in Italy with contrasting facades

June 15, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

Italian studio Messner Architects has extended and reconfigured a house in South Tyrol to create three apartments, each with a contrasting exterior finish of plaster, wood and metal. Named RVTK, the building overlooking the town of Silandro was originally built in 1978 and sits within a gently sloping site with a partially sunken ground floor.

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Archisbang converts Italian farm building into We Rural guesthouse

May 28, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

Italian studio Archisbang has transformed a farmhouse outside Turin into a guesthouse, inserting rooms with polycarbonate windows and doors into its existing brick structure. Named We Rural, the guesthouse is located in the village of Poirino and offers a range of facilities for passersby, an events space and bedrooms for longer stays. Archisbang said it

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MD41 creates “pure and extremely simple” gymnasium in Italy

April 19, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

Architecture studio MD41 has completed a gymnasium for a school in Merate, Italy, housed in a cubic volume clad in textured concrete panels. Replacing a former gymnasium on the same site, the building slots in between the school to the north and a sprawling brick piazza to the south created by local studio Archea Associati

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Maria Vittoria Paggini’s gives her home “porno-chic” makeover for Milan design week

April 15, 2024 Jane Englefield 0

Designer Maria Vittoria Paggini has used colourful wallpaper and murals depicting nude bodies concealed behind peepholes to transform her home for Milan design week. Located in the 5vie design district in the heart of the city, Casa Ornella is annually redesigned by Vittoria Paggini who presents the project during Milan design week. This year, the

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Margine draws on Salento’s vernacular architecture for minimalist Italian villa

April 10, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

A minimalist exterior of white render and local stone paving reference the traditional architecture of Italy’s Salento region at Casa Ulìa, a villa by local architecture studio Margine. Named Casa Ulìa, or Olive House, after the trees on the site, the 480-square-metre dwelling near Lecce was completed for a couple who wanted an “oasis of

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MoDus Architects wraps South Tyrol kindergarten in tartan pattern for “warmth and familiarity”

March 21, 2024 Andreea Popovici 0

Architecture studio MoDus Architects has extended a daycare in the town of Terlano, Italy, to create the Tartan School nursery, kindergarten and youth centre. The small South Tyrolean town is surrounded by orchards and vineyards, which the studio used to inform the nursery’s appearance. “The school derives its name from the plaster facade of the

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