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Simone Subissati Architects creates linear Italian country home

August 21, 2019 Lizzie Crook 0

Casa di ConFine by Simone Subissati Architects

A fragmented frame disrupts the linear form of this Italian house in Le Marche, which Simone Subissati Architects has designed to immerse its occupants in the landscape. Named Casa di Confine, which translates as Border Crossing House, it was built by Simone Subissati Architects for a family that wanted a dwelling in “an open, panoramic

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Bergmeisterwolf tops 12th-century wine cellar with bronze funnel

August 10, 2019 Jon Astbury 0

Pacherhof wine cellar by Bergmeisterwolf Architekten

Architecture studio Bergmeisterwolf has added a bronze funnel that appears to erupt from the ground above the 12th-century Pacherhof wine cellar in Italy. Modern wine production and tasting facilities are contained within the tower, which connects to the existing cellar via an underground passage. Bergmeisterwolf Architekten’s extension to the Pacherhof wine cellar in South Tyrol

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Superstudio co-founder Cristiano Toraldo di Francia dies aged 78

July 31, 2019 India Block 0

Cristiano Toraldo di Francia, the Italian architect who co-founded the radical design collective Superstudio, has died at the age of 78. Di Francia started the radical design collective Superstudio in 1966 with Adolfo Natalini while studying at the University of Florence. They were subsequently joined by Gian Piero Frassinelli, Alessandro and Roberto Magris, and Alessandro

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Gabriele Salini transforms historic palazzo into G-Rough hotel in Rome

July 28, 2019 Bridget Cogley 0

Mirrored tiles, patina walls, contemporary art and modernist Italian furniture make up this hotel within a 17th-century palazzo in Rome, which was formerly the family home of the owner. Gabriele Salini has transformed the historic property, which was his family’s home for hundreds of years, into a boutique hotel called G-Rough. He designed the five-storey hotel in the heart

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Gabriele Salini transforms historic palazzo into G-Rough hotel in Rome

July 28, 2019 Bridget Cogley 0

Mirrored tiles, patina walls, contemporary art and modernist Italian furniture make up this hotel within a 17th-century palazzo in Rome, which was formerly the family home of the owner. Gabriele Salini has transformed the historic property, which was his family’s home for hundreds of years, into a boutique hotel called G-Rough. He designed the five-storey hotel in the heart

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Marazzi designs Milan showroom as cabinet of curiosity

July 26, 2019 Dezeen staff 0

Dezeen promotion: Italian ceramics manufacturer Marazzi has opened a new showroom in Milan, which architects Antonio Citterio and Patricia Viel have made to resemble a collector’s library. The Marazzi showroom is situated at the heart of the city’s Durini design district. It has been designed by Antonio Citterio and Patricia Viel, who together run Milan-based

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Di Gregorio Associati surrounds rural Italian house with planted concrete pergolas

July 26, 2019 Jon Astbury 0

Monticello House by di Gregorio Associati Architetti

Overgrown concrete pergolas have been installed around Monticello, a brick house restored by Di Gregorio Associati Architetti in northern Italy. Di Gregorio Associati Architetti has restored and extended the rural house surrounded by vineyards, opening up its interiors to terraces surrounded by large concrete frames. Leaving the original house’s structure largely intact, the architecture studio surrounded

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Studio Andrew Trotter models Villa Cardo on traditional houses in Puglia

July 22, 2019 Lizzie Crook 0

A series of minimal white blocks interlock to form this holiday home by Studio Andrew Trotter, which takes cues from local architecture in Puglia. Named Villa Cardo, the four-bedroom dwelling is designed for a couple who wanted a peaceful summer retreat amidst olive groves in Carovigno, a town in the south of Italy. Studio Andrew Trotter

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Hesselbrand transforms stables into additional rooms at Tuscany’s Villa Lena

July 14, 2019 Natasha Levy 0

A former horse stables on the grounds of Tuscan art retreat Villa Lena has been renovated by architecture studio Hesselbrand to accommodate a series of rustic guest suites. Villa Lena is situated in the heart of Tuscany on a sprawling, 500-hectare wooded estate dotted with vineyards and olive groves. During the 19th and early 20th-century

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Geza designs gabled home to frame views of Alpine village

July 12, 2019 Jon Astbury 0

Architecture studio Geza has wrapped a skin of sun-shading angled larch slats around this large gabled house on a steep Alpine slope in Italy. Located close to a small town in Camporosso, Z House is designed to capture panoramic views of the nearby valley and mountains. Larch slats that surround both of the house’s volumes

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