Fossalunga Nursery School / Studiomas Architetti Associati
Architects: Studiomas Architetti Associati
Location: Treviso, Italy
Project Year: 2009
Project Area: 1,275 sqm
Photographs: Marco Covi
National Automobile Museum / Cino Zucchi Architetti
Architects: Cino Zucchi Architetti
Location: Turin, Italy
Project Year: 2011
Project Area: 17,700 m²
Photographs: Courtesy of Cino Zucchi Architetti
F_A Law Office / Chiavola+Sanfilippo Architects
Architects: Chiavola+Sanfilippo Architects
Location: Ragusa, Italy
Project area: 95 sqm
Project year: 2010
Photographs: Giorgio Biazzo
Gazoline Petrol Station / Damilano Studio Architects
Architects: Damilano Studio Architects / Duilio Damilano
Location: Piemonte, Italy
Client: Centro calor s.r.l.
Project Year: 2011
Project Area: 3800 sqm
Photographs: Andrea Martiradonna
Horizontal Space House / Damilano Studio Architects
Architects: Damilano Studio Architects / Duilio Damilano
Location: Cuneo, Italy
Collaborators: Arch.Claudia Allineo
Project Year: 2008
Project Area: 2110 sqm
Photographs: Andrea Martiradonna
OMA collaborates with Prada and the Hermitage at the Venice Biennale
Coinciding with the start of the Venice Biennale, OMA and Prada open an exhibition surveying recent collaborative works. The exhibition appears at Ca’ Corner della Regina, a former palazzo, alongside highlights from the Prada Fondazione collection. More images and information after the break.
Diesel Headquarters / Studio Ricatti
Architects: Studio Ricatti – Pierpaolo Ricatti
Location: Breganze, Italy
Collaborators: Marco Chilese (Project Manager), Laura Canazza, Giulia Gallo, Anna Griggio, Paolo Omodei Salè, Diego Rossi, Marco Saterini
Engineering: Jacobs Italia SpA
Project area: 87,000 sqm
Photographs: Daniele Domenicali, Aerodata (aerial views)
Nebula / Cecil Balmond
Architects: Balmond Studio – Cecil Balmond
Location: Milan, Italy
Project year: 2011
Photographs: Germano Borrelli, Nicola Vascellari
Vertical Villages for European Snowbirds / OFF Architecture, PR Architect and Samuel Nageotte
The Solar Park South International design competition awarded French firms OFF architecture , PR Architect and Samuel Nageotte for their entry called Verical Villages in Calabria, Italy. The competition played with the theme of a ‘Solar Highway’, re-using sections of the Salerno-Reggio Calabria highway soon to be decommissioned by the Italian Highways Authority. The redevelopment of the viaduct section of the Salerno-Reggio Calabria highway was carefully considered by the architects for each of its components in order to best integrate the project with the site’s potential. The fundamental question posed by the competition is that of the readaptation of such sites and the possibilities of atypical redevelopment socially, culturally and economically for the region.
Read on for more on this awarded competition entry after the break.
Toshiba Milano Salone / Dorell.Ghotmeh.Tane
Architects: Dorell.Ghotmeh.Tane
Location: Milan, Italy
Project area: 534 sqm
Project year: 2010 – 2011
Photographs: Francesco Niki Takehiko, Daici Ano
‘On Hold’: OMA at the British School in Rome
The exhibition will show ten of OMA’s Masterplanning commissions which are now either on-hold or discontinued: an urban regeneration project in White City, London, a project for the ‘Nuova Bovisa’ science city in Milan, and a selection of projects in Eastern Europe and the Middle East.
Conceived in the virtual space of the computer, and with no imminent prospect of realization, these projects remain virtual in every sense. By retroactively creating physical originals, this exhibition hopes to make the virtual tangible. Prints on canvas, paper or card show the imagery as if dug up from some dusty archive – history with a message for the future, looking back as a way of looking forward.
The Architecture Programme British School at Rome curated by Marina Engel presents “On Hold” at the British School at Rome, Via Gramsci 61, from 4th May through 25th May 2011. Opening times are from Tuesday to Saturday from 17.00 to 19.30 pm
The Sheraton Milan Malpensa Airport Hotel & Conference Centre / King Roselli Architetti
Architects: King Roselli Architetti – Riccardo Roselli
Location: Milan, Italy
Project Architect: Arianna Nobile
Interior Design: Daniele Del Prete
Design Team: Andrea Ricci, Mario Augusti, Katia Scarioni, Giandomenico Florio, Fabrizio Bonatti
Landscape: Dana Vocino
Consultant: Federica Pistola, Andrea Imbrenda
Client: DEC
Project area: 50,000 sqm
Photographs: Santi Caleca
Kernel Festival Call for Artists
Kernel FESTIVAL /011 is looking for young talents to project temporary architectural installations, that will characterize the park of Villa Tittoni Traversi in Desio, during the three days of the Festival, from July 1st to 3rd, 2011.
The Open Call encourages the research on cutting-edge architecture, innovative technologies and solutions, as well as on the relationship between architectural space and the other artistic areas presented at the Festival, Electronic Sound and Music, Audiovisual Mapping, Interactive and Digital Art.
The participants will be evaluated by a Committee composed of renowned professionals, architects, professors and critics of international experience. The selected designer will have the opportunity to develop, build, install and exhibit his project in the international context of Festival. To have more informations and to participate check out the open calls available on-line at www.kernelfestival.net.
IPOST Headquarters Building / studiobv36
The IPOST Headquarters Building by Daniele Durante_studiobv36 begins with a strong relation with the urbanization of the area, and its adjacency to a highly density block including Telecom building in Rome, Italy. These relations have pushed the project idea towards a dialogue with the urban scale, making the building like a “perspective block”, with a strong plastic impact.
Read on for more after the break.
Video: Design Week in Milan
Vítor Gabriel shared us showing experimental installations that mix micro-architectures or macro-objects created by international designers during the Design Week that took place at Milan from April 11 to April 17. Enjoy it!
Madonna della Rosa Sanctuary Extension / Studioartec
Architects: Studioartec
Location: Monticelli Brusati, Brescia, Italy
Design Team: Bruno Tonelli, Marcello Peli, Giovanni Mosca, Massimiliano Gorlani
Project area: 4,022 sqm
Project year: 2006 – 2008
Photographs: Bruno Tonelli
New Furniture Designs for Sawaya & Moroni / Zaha Hadid, Daniel Libeskind, Dominique Perrault
Revealed earlier this month in Milan, Sawaya & Moroni‘s New Collection 2011 includes pieces from high profile architects Daniel Libeskind, Zaha Hadid, and Dominique Perrault. William Sawaya and Paolo Moroni, founding partners of Sawaya & Moroni, focus the production of their furniture on contemporary designs intertwined with differing cultural backgrounds, resulting in unique pieces and a selective group of architects and artists.
Ben van Berkel of UNStudio also presented new furniture this month in Milan.
More about the chairs after the break.
Absolute Architecture / LOKOMOTIV Architects
The central Veneto area, lying approximately between Padua, Treviso, Castelfranco and Mestre, has one of the most unusual settlement systems of northern Italy. This project, by LOKOMOTIV Architects, starts from the view that the phenomena of urban sprawl should be stemmed, as the sprawl gives rise to a great number of problems, among which we might mention the excessive proliferation of infrastructures, with costs for the government that are unsustainable in the long run and break the delicate environmental balance of the system created by roman agriculture colonization. More images and architects’ description after the break.
ULH Urban Lake Housing / C+S Associati
Architects: C+S Associati - Carlo Cappai, Maria Alessandra Segantini
Location: Pordenone, Italy
Project Year: 2011
Photographs: Courtesy of C+S Associati
Church / Kuadra Studio
As this Church befits its central role in the community, this project also acts as a landmark and point of congregation for all in the area of Piacenza, Italy. The aim of Kuadra Studio is to keep the religious function of the building to the forefront while incorporating the necessary space and facilities for other, everyday activities. The concept for the design came from the idea of leaves: emphasizing the natural attachment to the earth and at the same time the spiritual detachment from it, creating a dynamic floating form to inspire worshipers with a material recreation of an ideal of the Church connecting earth and heaven. More images and architects’ description after the break.
Foligno: The Bella Island / Kuadra Studio
To mark the bicentenary of the death of Giuseppe Piermarini, (Foligno, 18th July 1734 – 18 February 1808), Kuadra Studio has organized a workshop to honor the work of the architect and was assigned area 8 with one of Piermarini’s follies, a design for a stylized coffee house; a circular building of which only a few plans still exist. A long standing exhibition in the Centro Arte Contemporanea in Foligno and a catalogue are the results of the workshop. More images and architects’ description after the break.
