Italy

Ponte Morandi suspension bridge collapses in Genoa during storm

August 15, 2018 India Block 0

A motorway bridge built in the 1960s has collapsed during heavy rainfall in Genoa, Italy, killing at least 37 people. The concrete Ponte Morandi structure, designed by prolific Italian engineer Riccardo Morandi, disintegrated at 11.30am local time on 14 June 2018. Up to 35 vehicles plunged down a 45-metre drop into a flooded stream below, after a tower

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Robots will assemble brick facades of Milan’s university science campus

August 14, 2018 India Block 0

Carlo Ratti Associati is designing a new science campus for the University of Milan, complete with brick facades that will be made by robots. External brickwork on the new buildings will be designed and built with the assistance of robots and include letters and symbols. This facade, say the architects, could be re-arranged into a different

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Huge obelisk marks entrance to Torino Outlet Fashion Village by Claudio Silvestrin Architects

August 6, 2018 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Claudio Silvestrin Architects has completed a shopping outlet in Turin, Italy, that features a 111-metre-high “modern medieval spire”. Built alongside a major road on the outskirts of the city, the Torino Outlet Fashion Village contains 81 shops arranged around two open-air streets. Claudio Silvestrin Architects marked the location of the 32,000-metre-square shopping centre with a

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Row of ridged bays contains bottling facilities at Santa Margherita vineyard

August 1, 2018 Alyn Griffiths 0

Italian studio Westway Architects has completed the modernisation of a winery near Venice, which combines wine-coloured zinc-titanium cladding with windows to view the production process. The renovation of the Santa Margherita vineyard complex has been ongoing since 2008 and has involved multiple phases, with the final stage involving the construction of new bottling facilities. The

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Fountains jet water over entrance to Foster + Partners’ sunken Apple store in Milan

July 26, 2018 India Block 0

In Milan the latest Foster + Partners-designed Apple Store features a dramatic water feature in an update on the traditional Italian piazza. Sunk into the square, the steps down to the store form an amphitheatre with the curtain of water providing a backdrop. The eight-metre high glass walls contain a water feature that was, according

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Archiplan celebrates painted frescos in subtle revamp of 15th-century Italian home

July 5, 2018 Natasha Levy 0

Faded frescos offer a backdrop to contemporary furnishings in Brolettouno Apartment, a holiday home in northern Italy that has been refurbished by local studio Archiplan. The property is located in Mantua, Lombardy, in a building that dates back to the 15th century. It belongs to a young couple, who asked Archiplan to transform the space into a getaway for

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Venice Biennale project sees derelict 1980s flat transformed back into family home

June 22, 2018 Jessica Mairs 0

A social-housing apartment that stood empty for five years is becoming a family home again, after being refurbished for a Venice Architecture Biennale show. The Unfolding Pavilion was a week-long exhibition inside a triplex flat in the Giudecca Social Housing Complex, which was built by Italian architect Gino Valle in 1986. The flat was in

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Studio Strato creates cosy reading den in renovated Rome apartment

May 8, 2018 Ali Morris 0

A reading room with a daybed and porthole window is built into the living room of Pointing House, a one-bedroom apartment in Rome designed by Studio Strato. Studio Strato, a Rome-based architecture firm founded in 2007 by Martino Fraschetti and Vincenzo Tattolo, designed the interior in collaboration with architect Maria Clara Ghia. Wrapped around a

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OMA’s Fondazione Prada Torre opens with quirky interiors and renowned contemporary art

April 26, 2018 Dan Howarth 0

A room filled with giant spinning mushrooms and a set of bright yellow-green bathrooms are among the surprises found inside the OMA-designed Torre, which opened last week as the final part of the Fondazione Prada arts complex in Milan. The white concrete structure that towers over the converted industrial site in the south of the

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Zaha Hadid Architects completes twisted Generali Tower in Milan

April 26, 2018 India Block 0

Zaha Hadid Architects has completed a twisted tower that soars 170 metres above Milan, making it the third tallest building in the city. The international architecture firm’s recently completed Generali Tower is one of three skyscrapers being built at the CityLife development on the previous site of Milan’s trade fair grounds. Nicknamed Lo Storto, or, The Twisted One, Zaha Hadid Architects’

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