Tag: Italian Architecture

Reconversion of Société Privée de Gérance's headquarters

Giovanni Vaccarini

The project to reconvert and extend Société Privée de Gérance's headquarters in Geneva was chosen after a multi-stage competition extending across 2010 and 2011 that included on-site testing of the prototypes submitted by competition entrants. The winning design focused on the quality of the work environment and the structure of the façades.

# Offices (965) # Switzerland (120) # Giovanni Vaccarini

#Italian Architecture

Refurbishment of the Aula Magna Auditorium

Giovanna Masciadri

The State University of Milan's main campus is centred on Ca’ Granda, an emblematic humanist construction by the Florentine architect and scholar Filarete that was built in the mid-15th century as a hospital. In the 1950s, Liliana Grassi designed the wonderfully balanced main lecture hall, located in a courtyard of the monumental complex, as part of the restoration and rebuilding work required due to bomb damage suffered in World War II.

# Italy (3161) # Theater - Auditorium (175) # Giovanna Masciadri

#Italian Architecture

Torre del Borgo

CN10 Architetti

La Torre del Borgo costituisce per Villa d’Adda un edificio monumentale, in cui si sintetizza una storia complessa all’interno del paese, per simbologia(casa fortificata medievale e luogo caratterizzante momenti che rappresentano per il territorio fasi della storia di fazioni e conflitti militari durante i secoli) e per materialità (le murature d’ascendenza medievale sono di notevole qualità costruttiva e fattura).

# Italy (3161) # Public (333) # CN10 Architetti

#Italian Architecture

New auditorium

Fabbricanove

This is a very expressive project in the heart of the old town of San Cataldo, in the Sicilian province of Caltanissetta. The goal was to create an urban complex that interpreted the settled architectural appearance of the town, understood the need for local structures to be revamped and catered for the multiple functions required of such an auditorium.

# Italy (3161) # Theater - Auditorium (175) # Fabbricanove

#Italian Architecture

Villa Elle Maison

Damilanostudio Architects

This villa is near Geneva in Switzerland, enjoying sweeping views of the landscape, city and Lake Geneva. It rests elegantly on a slope, with large sliding doors and windows on the south-western and south-eastern sides.

# Residence (1664) # Switzerland (120) # Damilanostudio Architects

#Italian Architecture

Palazzo Fanzago, restoration and renovation

Bruno Stocco Architetto

Palazzo Fanzago is in the heart of Padua, a stone's throw from the cathedral and sections of the university along a portico-lined street that was once a Rom

# Italy (3161) # Bruno Stocco Architetto

#Italian Architecture

JMG House

Luca Zanaroli Architects

The wonderful relationship at the heart of this design between the traditional, existing building - a trullo - and the new contemporary house forces one to reflect on the concepts, ideas, results and methods used.

# Italy (3161) # Residence (1664) # Luca Zanaroli Architects

#Italian Architecture

Extension of Ospedale del Mare (lobby)

IaN+

Light is the hallmark of the addition to this hospital in Naples. Centred on functional clarity and sensitivity in the definition of space, the lobby - general entrance and access hub for the hospital services - is structured on three levels, with a ground floor and two basement levels. It is flooded with natural light from above and creates a layout in which perceptions dissolve into a limited, well-defined space, that - at the same time - allows freer spatial relations, amplified by light and unleashed of geometrical constraint.

# Italy (3161) # Healthcare (185) # IaN+

#Italian Architecture

Farmhouse

MIDE architetti

The gently rolling, leafy hills of the Tuscan countryside near Lucca are the setting for this typical two-storey farmhouse, with a rustic outhouse. The farmhouse is late 19th century and the outhouse is more recent, but the design solutions adopted fit both perfectly and manage to maintain the basic original volumes.

# Italy (3161) # Residence (1664) # MIDE architetti

#Italian Architecture

Square in Tempio Pausania

Alvisi Kirimoto

The design for this "stony" square in Tempio Pausania in northern Sardinia plays with materials and the geometrical layout, using a flexible, changeable "configuration" of suspended cables and "sails" that represent ideas that merge. Elements are fragmented and re-composed to forge a new, poetical identity that adds to a beautiful, multi-faceted square, a tribute to singer and songwriter Fabrizio De André.

# Italy (3161) # Public space (502) # Alvisi Kirimoto (34)

#Italian Architecture

House in the hills

deamicisarchitetti

House in the hills

# Italy (3161) # Residence (1664) # deamicisarchitetti

#Italian Architecture

Depuratore di Levanto e Bonassola

MMAA Studio Manfroni & Associati

Depuratore di Levanto e BonassolaThis project embraces both architecture and landscape to create a water treatment plant for Levanto and Bonassola (in the western section of Liguria) that operates on multiple levels and meets numerous needs. On the one hand, there is the technical plant with a clear, standardized and regulated function (i.e. water treatment), but on the other, there is the careful consideration of the impact on the landscape of a unit large enough to incorporate all the required high performance, cutting-edge treatment equipment.

# Italy (3161) # Infrastructure (178) # MMAA Studio Manfroni & Associati (11)

#Italian Architecture