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Contini Architettura arranges church and community centre around public square in Castel di Lama

July 5, 2020 Tom Ravenscroft 0
Church and community centre in Castel di Lama by Studio Contini

Parma-based Contini Architettura has built a church, parish hall, sports’ clubhouse and changing rooms around a new public square in the village of Castel di Lama, Italy. Contini Architettura drew upon the arrangements of traditional Italian town centres to design the complex, which contains both religious and community buildings. “The client wanted the parish centre to

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Deferrari+Modesti designs rock climbing-themed staircase for villa in Tuscany

July 1, 2020 Cajsa Carlson 0

Interior design studio Deferrari+Modesti renovated a house in Prato, Italy, adding a blue staircase that doubles as a climbing wall for its sporty owners. The two-storey house in the Tuscany region, which was built in the 1980s, was in a state of disuse and required a complete refurbishment. Deferrari + Modesti designed an integrated furnishing

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Didonè Comacchio Architects draws on Mies van der Rohe for Italian football stand

June 30, 2020 Tom Ravenscroft 0
Municipal stadium in Travettore di Rosà by Didonè Comacchio Architects

Italian studio Didonè Comacchio Architects has built a football stand that references the work of Mies van der Rohe for the municipal stadium in Travettore di Rosà, Italy. The architecture studio designed the shelter to cover 300 concrete seats alongside a stadium used by football team FCD Transvector in a village near Vicenza in the north of Italy.

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Holiday home in Tuscany decked out with Italian stone and marble

June 10, 2020 Natasha Levy 0
Private home in Grosseto by Emanuela Frattini Magnusson and Pietro Todeschini

Alberese stones and Carrara marble are some of the Italian materials architects Emanuela Frattini Magnusson and Pietro Todeschini used for the interiors of this Tuscan holiday home. The one-storey house is situated in the small city of Grosseto, set on a hillside that overlooks rolling vineyards and olive groves. It belongs to a US-based couple

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Casa Mille in Turin is set within the former home of an Italian count

June 3, 2020 Natasha Levy 0
Casa Mille by Fabio Fantolino

Italian architect Fabio Fantolino has created his own apartment inside a palatial 19th-century building in Turin, using pops of green and petrol-blue throughout its interior. The Casa Mille apartment lies behind the doors of a 19th-century palazzo that once belonged to an Italian nobleman called Count Callori. Its living spaces take over a ground-floor extension

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Network of Architecture creates lakeside swimming hut in South Tyrol

May 28, 2020 Tom Ravenscroft 0
Cafe and changing room alongside Völser Weiher Lake in South Tyrol by Network of Architecture

Italian studio Network of Architecture has built a timber cafe and changing room alongside the scenic Völser Weiher lake in South Tyrol, Italy. Built for the municipality of Völs, the cafe and changing block replaced a small hut next to the lake, which is a popular destination for swimming in the summer months and ice skating in

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Milan calls on architects and designers to create social-distancing devices

May 8, 2020 India Block 0
YesMilano launches campaign as Milan calls for creatives to respond to coronavirus

Architects and designers are being asked to devise social-distancing devices to allow Milan’s bars, shops  and public spaces to reopen safely following the height of the coronavirus pandemic. Spacers to keep people apart, signs to remind people to distance, and layouts for indoor and outdoor spaces are needed to help the city, which has been in lockdown

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Microscape uses stone-filled cages to update Italian cemetery

April 30, 2020 India Block 0

Cemetery Castel San Gimignano has been renovated by Italian architecture studio Microscape using local limestone stacked in metal baskets. The church of Castel di San Gimignano, a medieval town in the Tuscan countryside, was built before the 14th century. Microscape, a studio based in Lucca, designed the update to its cemetery with as light a

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Shipping-container intensive care unit installed at Turin hospital

April 21, 2020 Tom Ravenscroft 0
Connected Units for Respiratory Ailments (CURA) intensive care  shipping-container pod by Carlo Ratti and Italo Rota

A two-bed intensive care unit within a shipping container, designed by Italian architects Carlo Ratti and Italo Rota, has been built at a hospital in Turin and is being used to treat patients fighting the coronavirus. Named Connected Units for Respiratory Ailments (CURA), the intensive care pod was designed by Carlo Ratti Associati and Rota to increase intensive

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BDR Bureau gives 1960s Italian school a pastel pink makeover

April 21, 2020 India Block 0
Enrico Fermi School by BDR bureau

A school from the 1960s in Torino, Italy, has been updated with a pink steel and adobe plaster extension designed by architecture studio BDR Bureau. Called Enrico Fermi School, the facility is a school for 11 to 14 year olds in Torino’s Nizza Millefonti district. BDR Bureau won the competition to remodel the school in

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