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Urban Cabin is a micro apartment in Italy with custom seating and storage

April 5, 2020 Amy Frearson 0
Urban Cabin by Francesca Perani

Architect Francesca Perani has transformed the porch of an Italian villa into a 25-square-metre micro apartment with plenty of hidden storage. Designed for a local couple, Urban Cabin replaces the porch of a house in Albino, a small town in the Italian province of Bergamo. Perani’s renovation, completed with the help of interior designer Ilenia Perlotti, turns

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Deltastudio converts concrete warehouse into minimalist family home

March 31, 2020 Jon Astbury 0

Architecture practice Deltastudio has turned a former agricultural warehouse in Italy into a house with a balcony framed with white curtains. Called Elena after one of its owners, the home sits in a chestnut grove overlooking the town of Caprarola in central Italy. The original warehouse had two storeys connected by an external staircase. “The

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Lorenzo Guzzini builds stone house with infinity pool overlooking Lake Como

March 21, 2020 Jon Astbury 0
Villa Molli by Lorenzo Guzzini in Italy

Italian architect Lorenzo Guzzini has completed a villa overlooking Lake Como in Italy, with a facade of grey moraine stone and an infinity pool. The house, called Villa Molli, is built into a gentle slope in the town of Sala Comacina. Its two tower-like forms and stepped living spaces required minimal excavation. Lorenzo Guzzini positioned

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Italian architect Vittorio Gregotti dies of coronavirus

March 16, 2020 India Block 0
Italian architect Vittorio Gregotti dies of coronavirus

Vittorio Gregotti, the Italian architect who designed Palermo’s ZEN neighbourhood and the Barcelona Olympic Stadium, has passed away at the age of 92 from coronavirus. Gregotti died at the San Giuseppe hospital in Milan on 15 March 2020. His wife is still being treated for Covid-19 at the same hospital. The architect, who founded his

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Salone del Mobile to evaluate situation as Milan, Venice and much of northern Italy sealed off due to coronavirus

March 8, 2020 Marcus Fairs 0
Milan's Salone del Mobile furniture fair postponed due to coronavirus

Bosses of Milan’s Salone del Mobile furniture fair will meet this week to “assess the situation” as Lombardy and several northern Italian regions were locked down due to the coronavirus outbreak. The midweek meeting, which was scheduled before Italian prime minister Giuseppe Conte signed the emergency decree last night, will examine the impact the ongoing

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Cristina Celestino uses plaster and terracotta for 28 Posti restaurant interior

March 3, 2020 Natasha Levy 0
28 Posti restaurant designed by Cristina Celestino

Plaster walls, terracotta tiles and powder-blue details feature 28 Posti, a restaurant in Milan that has been revamped by architect and designer Cristina Celestino. 28 Posti serves up a selection of contemporary Mediterranean dishes to an intimate group of diners – something hinted at in the restaurant’s name, which translates from Italian to “28 seats”.

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Venice Architecture Biennale to go ahead despite coronavirus outbreak

February 27, 2020 Tom Ravenscroft 0
Venice Architecture Biennale to go ahead as planned despite coronavirus outbreak

The Venice Architecture Biennale has unveiled details of this year’s programme, which opens on 23 May, without mentioning the threat of Italy’s coronavirus outbreak. Paolo Baratta, president of La Biennale di Venezia, announced the programme for the 17th architecture biennale via a livestream this morning. Speculation over a postponement of the world’s most prestigious architecture

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MoDus Architects wraps Bressanone tourist office around a tree

February 24, 2020 Amy Frearson 0
TreeHugger by MoDus Architects

The TreeHugger tourist information office in Bressanone, northern Italy, features smooth concrete walls that curve around the trunk of a tree. Designed by local studio MoDus Architects, the small building sits adjacent to the Bishop’s Palace, a 13th-century villa that is one the town’s main tourist attractions. The building is named TreeHugger, because its shape

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AMAA creates own studio by inserting huge glass box inside old Italian factory

February 21, 2020 Amy Frearson 0
AMAA architecture studio in converted factory in Arzignano

Venetian office AMAA has converted an abandoned plumbing factory into an architecture studio with a rough-and-ready character. AMAA founders Marcello Galiotto and Alessandra Rampazzo created their new workplace by inserting a steel-framed, two-storey glass volume inside the old factory in Arzignano, a town in the west of Italy’s Veneto region. The pair did all they could

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Architect designs own house with white tower in Puglia

February 20, 2020 Jon Astbury 0
The White Tower Gagliano del Capo by DOS Architects

Architect Lorenzo Grifantini stacked the bedrooms of his own house in Puglia, Italy, inside a 12-metre-high white tower overlooking a large courtyard. Called La Torre Bianca, or The White Tower, the villa in Gagliano del Capo was designed by Grifantini, a founder of DOS Architects, as a home for his own family away from the

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