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House in Bozen, North Italy
Design: monovolume architecture+design

photo © M&H Photostudio
House in Bozen - 19 May 2013
The project M2 at Bozen-Moritzing is a Klimahouse A which hosts two accommodations on separate floors. Because of his punctuated facade in the north and the east it seems closed to the access road. The plastered basement serves as pedestal for the smaller upper floor, which is covered by cladding sheets. To the garden - towards the south and the west – the house opens because of a generous glass façade.

House in Meran, North Italy
Design: monovolume architecture+design

photo © M&H Photostudio
House in Meran - 19 May 2013
The project M, a residential building in the centre of Meran, is embedded in the quiet area of Obermais. The concept of the design was it to play with transparent and solid surfaces what fallows fascinating insights and outlooks. The interior melts together with the outside space. The terrain flows through the building and finds his renewal in the pool- and meadow area. Because of a refined external design and the arrangement of the pool, lawn, garden and house the whole concept seems like a unity with seamless transition.

ENI Exploration and Production Headquarters, Milan, north west Italy
Design: Andrea Maffei Architects

image : Miller Hare Limited
ENI Exploration and Production Headquarters - 24 Apr 2013
The site is located in area of’ ex-industrial complex in Metanopoli, the first settlement ENI created in San Donato Milanese, near Milan. With this new project is desired for a character functional, dynamic, communicative and identity, which encompasses the values and potentials of ENI.

New Maranello Library, Emilia-Romagna, Northern Italy
Design: Andrea Maffei Architects

photo : Alessandra Chemollo
New Maranello Library - 23 Apr + 4 Apr 2013
MABIC, situated in 850 sqm area, is located inside a well-established residential context in Maranello and the library replaces an ex industrial warehouse maintaining the perimeter walls. The typical idea of the classic library is changed in an organic transparent shape put inside the original perimeter of the industrial building.

Ceno House, Brindisi, south east Italy
Design: Daniele Corsaro

photo : Dario Mialet
House in Brindisi - 12 Apr 2013
Casa Ceno is a single-family house (300sq/mts) designed in a strict relationship with the surrounding environment and an almost obsessive research not to alter the landscape. In the present case this is done breaking it into three homes. On the one hand there is a building for sleeping area and on the other there are two: one for the living room/dining area and a dependance.

Italcementi i.lab, Bergamo, north west Italy
Design: Richard Meier & Partners Architects LLP

photograph courtesy of Scott Frances – OTTO
Italcementi i.lab - 23 Jan 2013
The new building is the research and development center for Italcementi and it is intended to reflect the company’s position of leadership, technological advancement and commitment to research in the use of concrete.

Dolomitenblick, Sesto, Province of Florence, Tuscany, central Italy
Plasma Studio

photo : Hertha Hurnaus
Dolomitenblick - 14 Jan 2013
The building hosts 6 generous holiday homes, all directed to the sun and the panoramic view of the Dolomites. Each private unite is designed to get a maximum of privacy: through the division of the whole building volume into 2 parts, through the stepped balustrades which avoid insight from the above unit and from the passing by street.

La Serenissima Office, Turati, Milan, north west Italy
Park Associati

photo : Andrea Martiradonna
La Serenissima Office - 7 Jan 2013
When this building was built, it was considered to be modern and technologically advanced, even experimental. Today however, many of its undeniably attractive aspects have become outdated with regards to current standards of building construction. For this reason the new owner, aware of its quality and evocative presence, decided to bring in architects to redesign the complex.

Hotel Valentinerhof, Kastelruth, northern Italy
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photo : Daniele Iodice / Lorenz Sternbach
Hotel Valentinerhof - 4 Jan 2013
The hotel is located in the village of Kastelruth next to the well-known Seiser Alm at approx. 1200 meters above sea level. The family establishment was enhanced and enlarged with a new wellness area and a new lobby with attached bar and restaurant.

Benetton Nursery, Treviso, north east Italy - added
Alberto Campo Baeza

photo from architect
Benetton Nursery - 19 Nov 2012
This square structure is inscribed within a larger, circular enclosure made up of double circular walls. Open to the sky, four courtyards are created that suggest the four elements: air, earth, fire and water.

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Church Complex Pescara, eastern Italy
Architetto Angelo Campo

photograph from architect
Church Complex Pescara - 6 Jul 2012
The mid-Adriatic sprawling city is made up of a cluster of houses laid on the ground as in a domino disposition: the open issue for its new urban dimension is to point out new central areas from a planning point of view and realize them; the priority may be represented by public spaces and/or buildings.

Museo Casa Enzo Ferrari, Modena
Future Systems

photo © Andrea Morgante
Museo Casa Enzo Ferrari - 20 Mar 2012
The Enzo Ferrari Museum in Modena was designed by Jan Kaplický at Future Systems.

Shift Housing, Cremona, northern Italy
AquiliAlberg

photograph : Fabrizio Marchesi
Cremona Housing - added 1 Mar 2012
The proposed typology renews the “rank houses” which are manipulated and reinterpreted by the Milan Office to improve at best the site characteristics and the context, which is the natural park of Serio River.

San Pardo Architecture Competition, Matera, southern Italy
International architectural competition - a project for the improvement of a residential and commercial area located in “San Pardo” district in Matera, Italy : 'Contest for design ideas'
Italian Architecture Competition

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Italian Architecture - Major Buildings

Ara Pacis Museum, Rome Richard Meier Architects photo © Adrian Welch Ara Pacis Museum	Art Museum Strongoli COOP HIMMELB(L)AU image from architect Calabrian architecture
British Embassy Building, Rome Basil Spence picture © Adrian Welch British Embassy Rome	Domus Technica, Brescello, Reggio Emilia - photo : Roland Halbe Italian Building
Jesolo Magica complex, Venice Zaha Hadid Architects image from architect Jesolo Magica Venice Buildings	MAXXI, Rome Zaha Hadid Architects photo : Roland Halbe Maxxi
Milanofiori Housing, Milan OBR Open Building Research render from architect Italian Housing	Monte S Angelo Metro entrances + link Amanda Levete Architects + Anish Kapoor image from architect Naples Subway Building
Music Auditoria, Rome Renzo Piano Building Workshop photograph © Adrian Welch Music Complex Rome	New Trade Fair Building Massimiliano e Doriana Fuksas Architects photo © Archivio Fuksas New Trade Fair Milan
Nuragic and Contemporary Art Museum Zaha Hadid Architects picture from ZHA New Italian Architecture, Cagliari, Sardinia	Palazzetto dello Sport, Rome Pier Luigi Nervi picture © Adrian Welch Palazzetto dello Sport
Quarto Ponte sul Canal Grande, Venice Santiago Calatrava www.palladium.de, Barbara Burg/Oliver Schuh Grand Canal Bridge Venice	University Luigi Bocconi, Milan Grafton Architects photograph : Federico Brunetti University Luigi Bocconi