Italy

David Chipperfield to convert old barracks into University of Padua campus

April 15, 2019 Amy Frearson 0
PiaveFutura campus for University of Padua by David Chipperfield Architects

David Chipperfield’s Milan office has won a contest to design a new campus for one of the world’s oldest surviving universities. David Chipperfield Architects and engineering company Steam were selected to design a campus of social and economic sciences for the University of Padua, which is the fifth-oldest surviving university on the globe. They were chosen ahead

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Eight Italian hotels to wind down in

April 13, 2019 Natasha Levy 0
Appartamento Brolettuono by Archiplanstudio

As a busy Milan design week draws to a close, Dezeen has selected eight Italian hotels that event-goers can head to for a moment of calm, including a minimalist retreat with views of the Dolomite mountains and a 15th-century holiday apartment with original fresco walls. Hotel Hubertus, Bolzano, South Tyrol, by NOA A glass-bottomed pool

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Pezo von Ellrichshausen turns baroque palazzo upside down with “magic open box” installation

April 11, 2019 Amy Frearson 0
Echo Pavilion by Pezo von Ellrichshausen at Palazzo Litta in Milan

Chilean architecture duo Pezo von Ellrichshausen has installed a mirrored structure within Milan’s Palazzo Litta, creating disorientating reflections of its baroque architecture. Described by studio founders Mauricio Pezo and Sofia von Ellrichshausen as a “magic open box”, Echo Pavilion offers two types of reflection – some are the right way up, while the others are upside

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Milan travel guide for architects and designers

April 5, 2019 Natasha Levy 0
Milan travel guide: Caffè Fernanda by Rgastudio

This month the entire design community flocks to Milan for the biggest event in the industry calendar. Whether you’re visiting for the design week, or planning a separate trip, here’s a travel guide to the city’s best hotels, restaurants, cafes and shops. Cafe: Caffè Fernanda A 17th-century painting is aptly the focal point of this

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Lumen Museum of Mountain Photography perches on a mountainside in the Italian Dolomites

March 3, 2019 Alyn Griffiths 0
Lumen Museum of Mountain Photography by Gerhard Mahlknecht of EM2

A funicular station on a mountain in Italy has been converted into a museum with an adjoining restaurant that balances on stilts by Gerhard Mahlknecht of EM2. The Lumen Museum of Mountain Photography is located 2,275 metres above sea level at the summit of Plan de Corones in the Kronplatz region of South Tyrol. Mahlknecht, who

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Pastel partitions divide the Imarika boutique in Milan

February 25, 2019 Natasha Levy 0
Imarika store in Milan, designed by Marcante-Testa

Design studio Marcante-Testa used pink clay partitions, copper pipes, and panels of plexiglass to form an “architectural landscape” inside this Milan fashion store. Formerly host to characterless white surfaces and concrete shelves, Imarika has been redesigned by Turin-based design studio Marcante-Testa to feature bold display fixtures that have “an architectural element and a clear functional

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Fabio Fantolino creates coordinated apartments for mother and son in Turin

February 23, 2019 Ali Morris 0
Interiors of Casa Lagrange, designed by Fabio Fantolino

Italian architect Fabio Fantolino has divided up the fourth and fifth floors of a residential building in Turin city centre to create two apartments for a mother and her son. Located in a five-storey building that dates back to the 1600s, Casa Lagrange is owned by a mother and son who wanted to live in the same building but also have

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Photos and scans reveal abandoned ruins of Casa Sperimentale

February 22, 2019 India Block 0
Casa Sperimentale photgraphed by Andy Tye of French + Tye

The ruins of Casa Sperimentale, an experimental concrete treehouse built by Giuseppe Perugini and Uga de Plaisant, have been digitally recorded for a new exhibition. Patrick Weber and Sabine Storp, architects and researchers at The Bartlett, undertook the project in order to comprehensively document the architectural oddity, which is now in a precarious state. Weber

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Boxx Creative looks to outdoors for design of Italy’s Albergo Miramonti hotel

February 15, 2019 Natasha Levy 0
Interiors of Albergo Miramonti hotel, designed by Boxx Creative

The scenic landscape of a small town in northern Italy informed the interiors of this hotel, which London-based studio Boxx Creative has given a contemporary overhaul. Originally constructed back in 1958, Albergo Miramonti’s formerly “tired and dated” interiors have been revamped by Boxx Creative to feature a variety of calming, natural hues. “Albergo Miramonti provides

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Earthy tones complete La Ganea restaurant in northern Italy

February 1, 2019 Natasha Levy 0
Interiors of La Ganea restaurant, designed by Studio Mabb

Studio Mabb used a humble material palette of plaster, timber, and iron to fashion the rustic interiors of this eatery in Brescia, Italy. The restaurant sits directly next to Palazzo Martinengo art museum and has been designed by Studio Mabb to feature an array of natural hues. Offering a relaxed menu of beer, burgers and pizza, the

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