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Renaissance of the Real Multisensory Installation - Milan Design Week 2026 / Snøhetta + USM Modular Furniture

Valeria Silva — Tue, 12 May 2026 03:00:00 +0000

USM Modular Furniture, in partnership with the transdisciplinary architecture studio Snøhetta, is proud to announce Renaissance of the Real, a multisensory installation by Swiss artist and experience designer Annabelle Schneider. Debuting at the prestigious Fondazione Luigi Rovati during Milan Design Week (April 20–26, 2026), the project invites visitors to step away from digital acceleration and rediscover the sensory intelligence of the physical body.

Plan C Frame Flagship Store / (ab)NORMAL + APRIL

Valeria Silva — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 12:00:00 +0000

Located at Via Manzoni 21, in the heart of Milan, the new Plan C flagship store marks the first step in the international expansion of the brand founded and directed by Carolina Castiglioni.

The 20 Most Anticipated Projects of 2026

Moises Carrasco — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 07:30:00 +0000

As 2025 concludes, we look ahead to 2026, a year scheduled to deliver a diverse range of significant architectural projects across the world. The year is particularly notable for the completion of new infrastructure and cultural buildings, including long-term projects. Europe will be in the spotlight of the new year with the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics. This event will feature projects such as the Olympic Village by SOM and the Winter Olympics Arena by David Chipperfield Architects. Also in Milan, BIG is set to complete construction of the City Wave project as part of a new business district in the city. At the same time, after more than 140 years of its establishment, the architects around the world will also be watching for the long-awaited completion of Antoni Gaudí's La Sagrada Familia in Barcelona, announced for 2026.

OpenZone Towers / AMDL CIRCLE

Hadir Al Koshta — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 12:00:00 +0000

"As Stephen Hawking stated, humanity's greatest achievements have been obtained in encounters, and its greatest failures in non-encounters or, worse, in clashes. Today, this is more true than ever, and it is necessary and urgent to foster the birth of collaborations because we have enormous potential in terms of expertise and technology to be used, especially for the sake of Life. Architecture, through the creation of pleasant, reassuring, and stimulating environments and a conscious distribution of functions, is a tool to make human contact and the consequent transfer of knowledge more accessible and immediate." Michele De Lucchi

A Villa between Cyberpunk and Listening Bar / co.arch studio

Hadir Al Koshta — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 12:00:00 +0000

In the Certosa District, located in the north-west of Milan, an area undergoing a major regeneration project promoted by RealStep and today Milan's most vibrant gastronomic hub, stands an early 20th-century villa that has been many things over time: a slaughterhouse, a squat, a forgotten fragment of the city. Today, it is Club Giovanile Milano, a space that brings together dining, a listening bar, and live music.

Pirelli 35 Office Building / Park Associati + Snøhetta

Pilar Caballero — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 03:00:00 +0000

Park and Snøhetta have joined forces to transform Pirelli 35, a 1960s office block in the heart of the Porta Nuova district in Milan, into a dynamic, accessible, and environmentally sustainable urban landmark. The project, commissioned by COIMA, redefines the relationship between architecture, landscape, and public space, creating a new focal point for urban regeneration. As a testament to its strategic and architectural relevance, Pirelli 35 has already been chosen as the Italian headquarters of both Adidas and Condé Nast. The international design competition for Pirelli 35 led to an unexpected yet visionary collaboration. Initially presenting two distinct yet complementary proposals, Park and Snøhetta were invited by COIMA to merge their expertise into a unified project. This partnership -Snøhetta's first in Italy- exemplifies how architectural quality and sustainability can coexist in a mutually enriching collaboration.

Guide to Inequalities, 24th Triennale Milano International Exhibition

Rene Submissions — Tue, 10 Jun 2025 06:45:00 +0000

Following two International Exhibitions — Broken Nature: Design Takes on Human Survival (2019), which explored the human relationship with natural phenomena, and Unknown Unknowns (2022), which examined the limits of scientific understanding — Triennale Milano now calls on the global cultural, scientific, and artistic communities to confront the pressing issue of inequality.

Park Lybra Headquarters / Park Associati

Andreas Luco — Sat, 31 May 2025 09:00:00 +0000

Lybra, Sustainable headquarters, in dialogue with tropical nature - At the intersection of Porta Nuova's business district and the vibrant, character-rich Isola neighborhood, Park has designed Lybra, a new office complex conceived to accommodate a contemporary workspace, and now home to the new headquarters of SAP Italy. The architectural concept is based on the idea of balance, which gives the project its name. Comprising two distinct yet harmoniously balanced volumes, the development reflects the dual nature of the city, engaging with two contrasting urban scales. The lower, recessed volume aligns discreetly with the residential fabric of Isola, while the taller building opens towards BAM -Biblioteca degli Alberi, establishing a visual and conceptual connection with the verticality of Porta Nuova's skyline. Between them, a third element, the Green Void, acts as a hinge, both spatially and symbolically.

TAM TAM Installation FuoriSalone / Alvisi Kirimoto + Partners

Andreas Luco — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 10:01:00 +0000

During Fuorisalone 2025, the international studio Alvisi Kirimoto participates in the Exhibition Event Cre-Action by Interni with the installation TAM TAM. Temple, Action, Movement. The artwork brings to life the historic courtyard of Università degli Studi di Milano 'La Statale,' inviting visitors to engage in reflection and collective action. Inspired by the exhibition's theme, which fuses Creativity and Action, Alvisi Kirimoto reimagines the classical temple not as a static monument, but as a living organism in continuous evolution. The installation, measuring 6 x 6 x 5 meters, features six columns of varying diameters—dynamic elements that visitors can move and rearrange, reshaping the space in real-time.

Torre della Permanente / Park Associati

Pilar Caballero — Mon, 21 Oct 2024 03:00:00 +0000

A renovation and expansion project that enhances the building's efficiency while respecting its original designers' architecture. Designed in the 1950s by Achille and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni and Luigi Fratino, the 12-floor Tower of the Permanente was an addition to the building of the same name, which was designed and built in 1886 by Luca Beltrami, in Via Filippo Turati in Milan. Currently housing the Museo della Permanente, the complex is located in a strategic area on a thoroughfare connecting the city center and the Central Station.

Terrazza Biandrà Elevated Plaza / Park Associati

Hadir Al Koshta — Wed, 11 Sep 2024 07:00:00 +0000

An elevated plaza, a discreet iconic place sharing the same material qualities with the surrounding historical environment - In the heart of Milan, in Piazza Cordusio, the restoration of the open space at the top of a building by Luca Beltrami commissioned by Countess Celeste Dario-Biandrà, dating back to the beginning of the 20th century, generated an original place that slots into the built landscape of the nineteenth-century heart of the city. Made of specially designed triangle-cut handmade terracotta tiles of different shades of color, the flooring of this new space shares its material qualities with those of Milan's roofs. Also covered in terracotta, the parapets create the impression of the building's pitched roof curving and extending onto the terrace. This creates an elevated plaza with a mimetic appearance, to which the noble materiality of terracotta lends uniqueness and understated elegance.

Salone del Mobile 2024 Announces Program, Including Interventions by David Lynch

Maria-Cristina Florian — Wed, 14 Feb 2024 06:30:00 +0000

Salone del Mobile.Milano has announced the opening dates and events program, expanding the trade fair event to encompass more narratives and projects relevant to the design community. The 62nd edition will take place at Rho Fiera Ilano from April 16 to 21, 2024. It is expected to include over 1900 exhibitors from around the world, with contributions from emerging designers and several design schools under the recurring SaloneSatellite, now in its 25th-anniversary edition. The cultural program also includes immersive installations, like David Lynch’s “Thinking Rooms.”

AMO Designs a Juxtaposed Office and Natural Landscape for Prada’s 2024 Fall/Winter Menswear Show

Maria-Cristina Florian — Fri, 19 Jan 2024 06:30:00 +0000

For the Fall/Winter Prada 2024 menswear show, AMO has designed a space that draws inspiration from two contrasting elements of modern life: office interiors and the natural landscape. Transforming yet again the space of the Deposito Hall at Foundation Prada in Milano, the designers have chosen to create a contrasting image of seemingly opposite elements: rows of office chairs illuminated by the white glow of LED lights, standing over a pastoral landscape with meandering creaks and ample foliage. The design aims to highlight this separation between natural instincts and the typical environment of modern life.

Rescuing Architecture: Stories of Buildings Saved from Demolition

Maria-Cristina Florian — Mon, 25 Dec 2023 06:30:00 +0000

Regarding urban development, the choice between demolition and adaptive reuse holds far-reaching implications. From debates around the cultural and historical significance of structure to the environmental impact of the process of razing and rebuilding, compared to the cost of preserving and adapting, the matter of demolitions has ignited the architectural community to come together and ask for more responsible assessment strategies in hopes of rediscovering the value of existing structures. This article gathers some of the stories of buildings facing the threat of demolition and the processes that led to their rescue.

Pichi 12 Housing / Park Associati

Andreas Luco — Sat, 11 Nov 2023 11:00:00 +0000

Originally designed for residential use by students and young professionals linked to the nearby university centers – Naba and Bocconi –, the Pichi 12 project has developed into its final form as the residence for a more widespread use characterized by an architectural mark that, far from laying claim to an iconic status, blends within the urban fabric of the area near the Navigli in Milan.

Open 336 Office Building / Park Associati

Paula Pintos — Mon, 15 May 2023 06:00:00 +0000

Located in Viale Sarca, Milan, Open 336 is a sustainable architecture designed by Park Associati focused on the comfort and well-being of its users. Featuring hybrid spaces that offer modern and functional offices, this building provides a reinterpretation of the industrial identity of the surrounding neighborhood.

Casa Selene Apartments / Degli Esposti Architetti

Valeria Silva — Sat, 29 Apr 2023 11:00:00 +0000

The building is composed of a wing that completes the block’s perimeter wall on Viale Umbria and an orthogonal wing that extends in depth towards the center of the block, with the last of the three stairwells extending the height of the building’s eleven above-ground floors: from the morpho-typological standpoint, the building is, therefore, a hybrid between a block’s perimeter wall type, a slab type, and a tower type. From the large double-height lobby on the street, there is access to a portico that provides direct access to all the stairwells and underground parking areas, accessible via independent staircases.

Casa Calipso / Degli Esposti Architetti

Valeria Silva — Sat, 22 Apr 2023 06:00:00 +0000

The intervention is a replacement through the demolition of a commercial building at Via Leone Tolstoi 87, Milan. The new building, exclusively for residential use, has 6 above-ground floors each accommodating 2-5 housing units, plus a penthouse and upper penthouse divided into 2 side-by-side duplex units, and a basement garage.