New Entrance of Careggi Hospital / IPOSTUDIO Architects
Architects: IPOSTUDIO Architects
Location: Florence, Italy
Project Year: 2010
Photographs: Pietro Savorelli
Video: New Careggi Entrance / Ipostudio
The above video, filmed and edited by DUOSEGNO Visual Design, features a look into the new Careggi entrance in Florence, designed by Ipostudio which becomes the ‘gateway’ to the hospital campus as it acts as both an urban junction as well as an architectural presence. The new entrance does not just function as a door to get inside, but is an area for strolling, for spontaneous interaction, and a place which represents the intricacy of the largest hospital development in all of central Italy. Through a new ‘square’, a new archway for Florence, this covered plaza, which draws inspiration from the grand urban traditions of the Florentine porticos, allows for this to happen.
A di Alcantara® / Migliore + Servetto Architetti Associati
Architect: Migliore + Servetto Architetti Associati
Location: Fortezza Da Basso, Firenze, Italy
Client: Alcantara®
Design Team: Ico Migliore and Mara Servetto
Date: January 2012
Photographs: Stefano Trovati © SGP
laRinascente Piazza della Repubblica / 1+1=1
The new extension designed by 1+1=1 Claudio Silvestrin Giuliana Salmaso architects and planners for laRinascente in Piazza della Repubblica, Florence, is conceived as a symbol of strength through the square, yet of lightness, in the detail of the Archangel’s wing in Filippo Lippi’s painting of the Annunciation. Visually, the new extension is floating above Palazzo del Trianon while preserving its authentic architectural structure. More images and project description after the break.
NEEDS-Architecture in Developing Countries / Young Architects in Florence
NEEDS-Architecture in Developing Countries, edited by Salvatore Spataro with GGAF (Young Architects of Florence). The book points out the real NEEDS of users, particularly the necessity to make structures which could satisfy them, facing up to lack of economic and technological resources. The sixteen works collected in this volume express a clear idea about the developing project of that belongs within the community within which it is situated. Each project is a reflection of architecture that does not impose organizing models extraneous to the local culture and does not flatten itself on the existent reality.
Scroll through images from the exhibition after the break!
Santa Maria Novella Square / Uros Novakovic + Nevena Radojevic
The team of Uros Novakovic and Nevena Radojevic have shared with us their proposal for a Urban Design Contest in Florence, Italy which focuses specifically on the development of Santa Maria Novella Square. Additional images and a project description after the break.
San Piero a Sieve School / Fabio Capanni Workshop
The extension of the primary and secondary school in San Piero a Sieve is located very close to the city of Florence. The building consists of 630 square meters of new surfaces that will host the laboratories, the dean’s office, the offices for the scholastic staff, and an auditorium that works as an all-purpose space. Rooms and the gym will still be in the old buildings, built during the Sixties, and the new construction had also to connect to them. More drawings and photographs following the break.
Architects: Fabio Capanni Workshop
Location: Florence, Italy
Design Team: Fabio Capanni, Claudio, Marrocchi
Collaborators: Stefano Servi
Structures: Riccardo Papi
Systems: Claudio Magni
Contractor: Edil F Due, Sacafati (SA)
Client: Municipality of San Piero a Sieve
Project Area: 2,600 sqm
Project Year: 2006-2008
Photographs: Christian Richters; © Fabio Capanni
Ferrovie dello Stato Pavilion
Uros Novakovic and Renato Pucci, students of the Università di Firenze in Florence, Italy shared with us their temporary pavilion for the Italian national rail-transport company. You can see more images and architect’s description after the break.
