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Casa Tahiti Interior / Margine

Nina Vuga — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 10:00:00 +0000

Located in a vibrant Roman neighborhood between Pigneto and Torpignattara, an area currently undergoing a remarkable cultural transformation and home to a growing community of young creatives, Casa Tahiti is the latest residential renovation completed by the architecture studio Margine.

Cabane 7L & Librairie 7L / salazarsequeromedina

Valentina Díaz — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 06:00:00 +0000

In the late 16th century, the gardens of Villa Medici, transformed under Cardinal Ferdinando de' Medici, were organized around the celebrated system of the Carrés (historically known as I Quadrati): sixteen orthogonal compartments structured within a rigorous geometric plan. While the perimeter avenues expressed the language of Medici magnificence, the interior of each Carré supported a highly productive agricultural regime. Archival descriptions confirm the cultivation of vegetables, herbs, and fruit trees; plants valued not only for their rarity and beauty but also as instruments of political identity and territorial order. The Medici treated horticulture as both aesthetic display and economic infrastructure.

Casa Continua / STUDIOTAMAT

Andreas Luco — Thu, 07 May 2026 06:00:00 +0000

In Rome's Flaminio district, STUDIOTAMAT unveils Casa Continua, a 115 sqm apartment entirely reimagined through a project that engages with the home's layered history while opening it to new ways of living. The apartment is located within a refined residential building, whose character is already evident in the rationalist language of its entrance hall. Purchased by the owner more than thirty years ago, the home had gradually fallen out of step with the person living in it. Fragmented rooms and rigid hierarchies no longer reflected a daily life shaped by movement, conviviality, and sharing, nor the increasingly central role that cooking had come to play. The intervention, therefore, began as a broader realignment: a contemporary rewriting of the interior, restoring a dialogue between the house and its inhabitant.

Frissón Cultural Space / On Form Studio

Hadir Al Koshta — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 12:00:00 +0000

Frissón is a hybrid cultural space in Rome's Pigneto, designed by On Form Studio — Michele Marincola, Ivan Spadaccini, Giovanni Inglese, and Andrea Signorotto. Conceived as a listening bar, bakery, and cultural platform, the project explores how architecture and interior design can support a contemporary ecosystem centered on music, conviviality, and artistic production.

Basilica di Massenzio Exhibition Pathway / Alvisi Kirimoto + Partners

Pilar Caballero — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 06:00:00 +0000

The international architecture firm Alvisi Kirimoto has designed the new exhibition pathway for the Basilica di Massenzio, commissioned by the Colosseum Archaeological Park. Respecting the site's immense historical and cultural significance, the project integrates seamlessly and purposefully into one of the world's most extraordinary contexts. Though distinctly contemporary, the intervention establishes a meaningful dialogue with the site, redefining its identity and introducing new functions. It strikes a careful balance between memory and modernity, offering a thoughtful reinterpretation of the space.

VDS House / 02A | studio

Hadir Al Koshta — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 10:00:00 +0000

We're in Conca D'Oro, a densely populated neighborhood in the northern stretch of Rome, beyond the Aniene River, a tributary of the Tiber. This part of the city saw intense urban growth in the post-war decades, an era that left its mark on the architecture still standing today. The home occupies a 1960s four-story building, with a brick-patterned façade and signature cruciform concrete pillars that anchor the prominent canopy of the first floor. It's a solid, rational structure, one that quietly wears its age.

Roma Termini Refurbishment / L35

Andreas Luco — Fri, 15 Nov 2024 06:00:00 +0000

Roma Termini, one of the busiest stations in Europe with 200 million annual visitors and a symbol of modernity in the Italian capital, has undergone a strategic transformation that strengthens its role as a central hub for urban mobility and commerce. One of the key aspects of this project was opening up the view toward the Servian Walls from the main hall, restoring visitors' visual connection to this historical legacy. Grandi Stazioni Retail has led the renewal of this architectural icon, designed by L35 Architects, projecting its image toward the future while honoring its profound historical legacy.

Cabane 7L Installation / Manuel Bouzas

Andreas Luco — Sat, 10 Aug 2024 09:00:00 +0000

Cabane 7L is an observatory designed by Manuel Bouzas for the third edition of the Festival des Cabanes at Villa Medici in Rome. Situated at one of the highest points in the eternal city, the Cabane 7L serves as an observatory that mediates between the skyline and the gardens of Villa Medici, the French Academy in Rome. In these Renaissance gardens, the installation offers visitors the opportunity to ascend to the canopy level of these historic gardens and discover a panoramic view never captured before.

Rude House / STUDIOTAMAT

Paula Pintos — Thu, 07 Sep 2023 02:00:00 +0000

In Tor de' Cenci, in the southern suburbs of Rome, a brutalist-inspired apartment overlooking the Castelporziano Nature Reserve finds new breath thanks to the intervention of STUDIOTAMAT. A renovation project with character, designed for a young couple of lawyers, which materializes in a 120 sqm house with large windows and a 40 sqm equipped terrace that captures the abundant natural light and lets the gaze wander towards the greenery, up to the Roman coast.

La timidité des cimes Installation / Atelier Poem

Pilar Caballero — Sat, 15 Jul 2023 13:00:00 +0000

A small wooden temple emerges from the gardens of the Villa Medici in Rome. Designed by Atelier Poem, the work reinvents the concept of the « cabane » through a symbolic experience, a space for imagining other ways of being together.

The History of the Roman Baths

Helena Tourinho — Wed, 28 Jun 2023 05:00:00 +0000

Within the canonical architecture, Vitruvius' treatises are the first treatises known. In addition to discussing the intellectual and cultural formation, interests, and sensitivity of the architect, or the "sacred" triad of architecture - venustas, firmitas, and utilitas (beauty, solidity, and functionality) - the treatise describes a design method, a kind of manual for Roman construction at the time. Complex and sophisticated, Roman architecture presented a variety of buildings with several functions. Among them were thermal baths, which did not escape Vitruvian prescriptions.

LUISS Guido Carli University Campus Hub / Alvisi Kirimoto + Partners + Studio Gemma

Paula Pintos — Fri, 07 Apr 2023 12:00:00 +0000

Close to Villa Ada, in the heart of the Parioli district in Rome, Alvisi Kirimoto with Studio Gemma has designed a new hub surrounded by greenery for the LUISS Guido Carli University campus. The intervention, which completes the university spaces and enhances the surrounding green areas, has involved the demolition of an existing shed, subject to landscape constraints, construction from scratch, and the expansion of an educational building.

Camplus San Pietro Student Residence / Roselli Architetti Associati

Pilar Caballero — Tue, 28 Feb 2023 10:00:00 +0000

CAMPLUS San Pietro is a student residence located in the heart of Rome next to Vatican City. This conversion of a five-story building of a former nursing home included seismic retrofitting and improvement of its functional and energy efficiency.

La Rinascente Department Store Refurbishment / 2050+

Pilar Caballero — Sat, 17 Dec 2022 15:00:00 +0000

In line with the intentions of the two architects, the project by 2050+ stems from the convictions that modernity is timeless – it does not rest on style or image, but on materials and function. Being modern is about embodying and transforming, rather than simulating an attitude. These stances translated into a series of targeted interventions that took on the legacy of the original project, while developing a dynamic relationship with the past, aiming to strike a balance between restoration and transformation.

Roma Tre University Building / Mario Cucinella Architects

Paula Pintos — Fri, 09 Dec 2022 10:00:00 +0000

Three elliptical green and white steel-framed towers, a glass-faced auditorium with a street frontage, a new public piazza, and a raised “hanging garden” are the key distinguishing elements of the Rectorate of Roma Tre, a striking new development designed by Mario Cucinella Architects at the heart of Rome’s third university.

protoCAMPO Pavilion / WALD

Luciana Pejić — Wed, 17 Aug 2022 12:00:00 +0000

protoCAMPO is a 300 sqm fully dismountable timber pavilion installed in the garden of the Villa Medici - French Academy in Rome.

Skyframe Installation / Set Architects

Andreas Luco — Fri, 24 Jun 2022 01:00:00 +0000

Skyframe is a site-specific pop-up installation, designed for the fourth edition of FAR, the Architecture Festival of Rome. The installation is located in the Ostiense district, specifically in Piazza del Gazometro: an area strongly characterized by the presence of industrial archeology buildings of the twentieth century. The concept is inspired by the pure volumes and elementary geometric shapes of the paintings of the artistic movement “Novecento”.

Pavilion Let’s Play! / DREAM

Paula Pintos — Mon, 06 Jun 2022 14:00:00 +0000

A sensory experience. In the exceptional setting of the gardens of the Villa Medici, the pavilion puts the wood to the fore in this sensory experience that remains as close to nature as possible. Amidst the maritime pines, the pavilion evokes a nascent forest. Its spiral shape guides the visitor along the open palisade, revealing fragments of the surrounding landscape between the gaps in the wooden poles. Gradually, the palisades are superimposed and become denser, the boundary between exterior and interior blurring, while the succession of poles produces a kinetic effect that seems to make the pavilion vibrate.