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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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Vincent Van Duysen transforms Milanese palazzo into “sensual” Ferragamo store

March 18, 2024 Alyn Griffiths 0

Belgian architect Vincent Van Duysen has completed a boutique in Milan for Italian fashion house Ferragamo, featuring red marble panels and an alcove covered in ceramic petals that offset the original Renaissance-style interiors. The store is located within Palazzo Carcassola Grandi, which was originally built in the 15th century and now occupies a prime spot

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FDA designs playful colour-block interiors for Italian seaside hotel

March 10, 2024 Alyn Griffiths 0

Italian architecture office FDA has updated several guest rooms and suites at the family-friendly Hotel Haway on Italy’s Adriatic coast, introducing bespoke furniture in colours that evoke the sea and mountains. Fiorini D’Amico Architetti (FDA) was tasked with modernising the interiors of the 50-room hotel in Martinsicuro, a popular seaside resort in the Abruzzo region.

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Senoner Tammerle Architekten places reflective mountain shelter in Italian Alps

March 6, 2024 Starr Charles 0

Italian studio Senoner Tammerle Architekten has created a mountain shelter in the Alps, distinguished by galvanised steel cladding chosen to reflect the hues of the sky. Sat at an altitude of 2,735 metres, the structure is designed as an updated version of the Shelter Santnerpass – a single-storey structure originally in the Italian Alps in

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“Minimally invasive” tent-like refuge has panoramic views of Italian Alps

March 2, 2024 Betty Owoo 0

Architecture studio EX used prefabricated CLT panels and aluminium cladding to create the Pinwheel Shelter mountain refuge in Italy. Positioned 2,850 meters above sea level near the Upper Susa valley, the shelter was built with principles of reversibility and lightness in mind. The folded wooden and aluminium shell forms a pinwheel shape from above, giving

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LCA Architetti nestles angular cork-clad home into Italian valley

February 28, 2024 Katie Last 0

An angular black volume sits atop a cork-clad ground floor to form Casa 9, a home that Italian studio LCA Architetti has added to a valley on the border between Italy and Switzerland. Located within a hilly landscape near Lake Lugano, the house was designed to showcase non-traditional building materials and features a timber structure

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Peter Pichler Architecture encloses geometric office block with pleated facades

February 22, 2024 Amy Peacock 0

Italian studio Peter Pichler Architecture has designed the angular headquarters for manufacturing company Bonfiglioli in Bologna, with a slanted roof covered in pleated mesh. Located in Bonfigliolo’s industrial site in Calderara di Reno, the building has a rectangular form punctured by a central outdoor courtyard and a series of terraces on the sloping roof. According

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Archiloop converts 12th-century Italian monastery into hotel Vocabolo Moscatelli

February 18, 2024 Dan Howarth 0

A 12th-century monastery in Italy’s Umbria region has become a boutique hotel in the hands of Florence studio Archiloop, which aimed to retain the site’s “rustic simplicity” during its renovation. Vocabolo Moscatelli sits in the countryside near the hamlet of Calzolaro, close to the Tuscan border, on a remote estate surrounded by woodland. The property

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Italian modernist architecture informs Bottega Veneta store in historic Milan galleria

February 7, 2024 Dan Howarth 0

Fashion house Bottega Veneta has opened a boutique designed by its creative director Matthieu Blazy inside the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II shopping arcade in Milan. Bottega Veneta’s two-storey store is distinguished by three primary materials: glass, Italian walnut and green Verde Saint Denis marble. This trifecta is applied in strict grids to evoke Italian modernism

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Infinity pool by Herzog & de Meuron aims to “blend into the waters” at Lake Como

February 2, 2024 Starr Charles 0

Swiss architecture studio Herzog & de Meuron has revealed an “optical illusion” infinity pool at Italy’s Lake Como made from prefabricated steel and sat against a backdrop of historic colonnades. Located in the village of Blevio, the pool is part of a larger development by Herzog & de Meuron for the Mandarin Oriental Lago di

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