Egyptian Pavilion for the Venice Biennale
Architects Ahmed Mito, Kamel Loqman, Hisham Alaa and artists Ayman Lotfy, Ahmed Refat, Niveen Farghaly, and Amer Abdelhakemrecently took part of the prestigious La Biennale di Venezia where they presented their work for the Egyptian Pavilion. Images and the architects description after the break.
Edificio 035 / Lab255
Architects: Lab255, arch. Dario Perego
Location: Bergamo, Italy
Client: Electric Line
Design Principal: Dario Perego
Project Architects: Dario Perego, Palmisano Aristide, Quadri Daniele
Project Area: 1200 sqm
Project Year: 2007-2008
Photographs: Gian Marco Finazzi, Paolo Ravasio
ROME 2010 Vertical Spa Design Competition 2nd Prize Winner / MORQ
Results for the Rome 2010: Vertical Spa Competition have been revealed, and MORQ has been declared the second prize winner. MORQ is composed of three architects: Emiliano Roia, Andrea Quagliola and Matteo Monteduro.
The competition challenged designers to consider the “belonging” to Rome and design a high tower whose spirit encompasses the historical complexity of the Eternal City. MORQ’s prize winning entry for a Vertical Spa suggested a tower that could define a new typology of buildings that could potentially determine the renewal of Rome in its future.
Read on for more images and descriptions after the break.
CCCloud / Kengo Kuma
In May we presented Kengo Kuma’s CCCWall Installation in anticipation for the now completed CCCloud monument. CCCloud, or Casalgrande Ceramic Cloud, Kengo Kuma’s first built work of architecture in Italy was completed September 2010. The monument, located in the middle of a roundabout in front of Casalgrande Padana‘s Headquarters, is the collaborative result of Kengo Kuma’s team, the University represented by Alfonso Acocella and Luigi Alini, and the authorities of Casalgrande Padana. The monument is remarkably made out of unglazed ceramic tiles that have been adapted for structural use that are produced by the client, Casalgrande Padana.
Read on for more information and images after the break.
Santa Marta Restaurant / Studio Kuadra
Architects: Studio Kuadra
Location: Mazze, Italy
Project Area: 110 sqm each floor
Project Year: 2009
Photographs: Photophilla
The Filter / Global Architects and Bloot Architecture
Dutch architecture offices Global Architects and Bloot Architecture cooperated in an international team of architects and became third in the Vertical Spa in Rome International Architectural Competition. More images and architect’s description after the break.
Church Square / DD&M + G.B. Busolini
Winner of an ideas competition in 2002, the project redevelops the Church Square of Pradamano. Previously this was little more than an open space between the church, the municipality, and the nineteenth-century villa Giacomelli. Sharing the fate of many smaller squares of Italy it had been turned into surface parking losing its character.
Architects: DD&M + G.B.Busolini
Location: Pradamano, Italy
Project Year: 2005-2006
Consultant: ETA Progetti
Contractor: Mario Venuti Impresa
Photographs: Andrea Pertoldeo
More text and pictures of the redesigned Church Square after the break.
Residential Building in Cagliari / Dante O. Benini & Partners Architects
Architects: Dante O. Benini & Partners Architects
Location: Cagliari (Sardinia), Italy
Project Area: 3,000 sqm
Project Year: 2006-2010
Photographs: Giorgio Marturana
Rome City Vision Architecture Competition winner / Weekend in a Morning Architects
Italian architects Massimiliano Marian and Andrea Cassi (Weekend in a Morning Architects), received first prize in the Rome City Vision Architecture Competition. Images and architect’s description after the break.
Toolbox / Caterina Tiazzoldi
Designer: Caterina Tiazzoldi
Location: Torino, Italy
Design team: A. Balzano, H. Cany, C. Caramassi, L. Croce, M. Fassino, M. Pianosi
Project year: 2009/2010
Completion site: 1300 mq
Property: I.O.S. S.p.A.
Photographs: Sebastiano Pellion da Persano, Heléné Cany
Stay Grounded / Materica Studio
Italian architect Massimiliano Menegale shared with us his proposal for the SAIE Selection 2010, for which he received 2n prize ex aequo in its category. More images and architect’s description after the break.
Museion in Bozen / Studio KSV
Italian photographer Marco Zanta shared with us these beautiful photographs of the new museum in Bozen designed by Berlin based practice Studio KSV. Take a look at the photoset after the break.
PAV Prize 2011 – Competition to create an environmental park
“PAV – Parco Arte Vivente”, Turin’s Living Art Park and Experimental Contemporary Art Centre, is promoting the PAV PRIZE 2011, an international competition organised by Landscape Architect Gianluca Cosmacini, to create an environmental artwork in a portion of the territory of PAV.
Theme of the Prize for the first year: The PAV biosphere: Inner and outer osmotic boundaries. More information can be found at the competition’s official website.
Renovation of a Public Garden / studioUAP and Paesaggi&Paesaggi
Italian architects studioUAP shared with us their renovation of Don Cadmo Biavati Park in Via Delle Palme, Rome. The project site is an abandoned public garden in the dense Centocelle neighbourhood in Rome with scarce green areas. The garden is close to many facilities like several schools, an elderly centre and the CSOA of Fort Prenestino. See more images and information after the break.
House on the Roof / De Amicis Architetti
Architects: De Amicis Architetti
Location: Via Petrarca, Milan, Italy
Project Area: 500 sqm
Project Year: 2008-2010
Photographs: Stefano Gusmeroli, Eugenia Silvestri
T2 House / Antonio Ravalli Architetti
Architects: Antonio Ravalli Architetti
Location: Ferrara, Italy
Project Team: Antonio Ravalli, Simone Pelliconi, Mauro Crepaldi, Giuseppe Crispino, Valentina Milani, Lorenzo Masini
Project Area: 110 sqm
Project Year: 2010
Photographs: Antonio Ravalli Architetti
Sauerbruch Hutton wins the M9 International Architectural Competition
The Anglo-German practice Sauerbruch Hutton was declared the winner of the M9 International Architectural Competition at M9 / A New Museum for a New City, an exhibition on the competition designs arranged in the premises of the future cultural pole in Mestre. Six firms participated in the competition: Agence Pierre-Louis Faloci, Carmassi Studio di Architettura, David Chipperfield Architects, Mansilla+Tuñón Arquitectos, Sauerbruch Hutton and Souto Moura Arquitectos.
The winning design and those by the other international firms that entered the design competition are being shown in the M9 – A New Museum for a New City exhibition, a fringe event of the 12th International Architecture Exhibition – Venice Biennale, and open to the public with free admission from 28 August to 21 November. For more information, click here.
Austrian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale
The Austrian Exhibition at the Austria Pavilion for the Biennale di Venezia 2010 is designed and curated by Eric Owen Moss. More images after the break.
Romanian Pavilion at Venice Biennale
1:1 es the exhibition space for the Romanian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. The project was designed by architects Romina Grillo, Ciprian Răşoiu, Liviu Vasiu, Matei Vlăsceanu and Tudor Vlăsceanu. Images and architect’s description after the break.
Cooperative Credit Bank / Studio Kuadra
Architects: Studio Kuadra
Location: Fossano, CN, Italy
Project Year: 2006
Photographs: Courtesy of Studio Kuadra
Territorial Dissonances / NOVAE Architecture
NOVAE Architecture has been recently selected as one of the 10 Young Italian Architects under 35 at the “Architects Meet at Fuori Biennale”, for the Venice Biennale. For the event, they presented their project “Teritorial Dissonances”. More images and architect’s description after the break.
