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Noah's Ark Nursery School / C+S Architects

Pilar Caballero — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 03:00:00 +0000

For over three decades, C+S Architects has imagined schools as the piazzas of small towns and villages: civic spaces, open beyond school hours, where education and community life meet. This vision, which helped rewrite the policies schools are designed in Italy, belongs to a broader idea the practice calls Future Heritage — an architecture where memory, ecology, and public life are held together and carried forward, with the school planted as a civic seed from which community can grow.

Revealing the Europe 40under40 Best Young Architects & Designers of 2023-2024

Maria-Cristina Florian — Fri, 08 Nov 2024 06:30:00 +0000

The winners of the "Europe 40under40®" program for 2023-2024 have been announced, celebrating promising talents in architecture and design. This recognition highlights projects from emerging professionals under the age of 40, including architects, landscape architects, urban planners, and industrial designers. The program, initiated by The European Centre, aims to showcase a new generation of designers who are poised to impact the future of living and working environments, cities, and rural areas.

Small Family Chapel / 120 grammi :: laboratorio di architettura

Andreas Luco — Sat, 31 Dec 2022 09:00:00 +0000

The tomb uses poor technologies and materials such as anodized aluminum and concrete, minimizing any decorative apparatus to emphasize the meaning and value of the expressive elements present.

Casa FC / depaolidefranceschibaldan architetti

Andreas Luco — Tue, 08 Mar 2022 10:00:00 +0000

House FC is located in a residential area protected from vehicular traffic. Its concept derives from a composition of compact volumes that discard and overlap to establish specific relationships with the surrounding context. The base presents a dark aluminum facing, the modularity of which originates all the openings. North it encloses the service spaces, appearing closed and impenetrable. On the other hand, the bright living room opens southward, with large windows facing the grassy garden.

Best Houses of 2021

Clara Ott — Thu, 16 Dec 2021 05:00:00 +0000

Residential architecture is one of the most popular categories among our readers. In 2021 we published more than 3,800 projects, featuring houses from different regions of the world and offering a variety of solutions, materials, contexts, environments, scales, and typologies. Providing a broad source of inspiration for those seeking references for their own residential project.

House in the Poplar / MIDE architetti

Valeria Silva — Tue, 19 Oct 2021 14:00:00 +0000

Behind the project, there is the desire to enhance the existing context, by re-interpreting the peculiarity of the rural buildings in a contemporary key. The wide plot of land, bordered by a watercourse, allowed to design a single-story building with a double pitch roof. To reduce the visual impact of the new building, the project includes a T-shaped floor plan, allowing for a better orientation of the rooms, each with a different destination.

Public Library / MIDE architetti

Pilar Caballero — Fri, 15 Oct 2021 10:00:00 +0000

The new library is located in an area of 5.400 m2, occupying only 300 m2, while leaving the remaining surface to a public park. The final result is a building surrounded by green, where to spend a pleasant time.

Agostini Shoes / MIDE architetti

Pilar Caballero — Wed, 13 Oct 2021 12:00:00 +0000

The intervention involves an existing productive building, located along a busy commercial route of Noventa Padovana, in the eastern rural area of Padua. The late 900’s architectural body is composed of a compact large vaulted volume, in which a third is occupied by a two-storey directional block and two-thirds by a double high space hosting the workshop.

ISISS D.Sartor Institute Expansion / MIDE architetti

Paula Pintos — Tue, 12 Oct 2021 10:00:00 +0000

The new Domenico Sartor Agricultural Institute extension in Castelfranco Veneto establishes a dialogue of continuity with the existing building: the rationality of the new extension re-updates the pre-existing architecture in a contemporary key.

165_MIDEarchitetti Office / MIDE architetti

Alexandria Bramley — Tue, 14 Sep 2021 02:00:00 +0000

It has been a great challenge designing a working space highly representative of our identity.

How to Design and Install Seamless Translucent Polycarbonate Facades

Lilly Cao — Tue, 10 Aug 2021 06:45:00 +0000

Translucent polycarbonate panels boast unique and striking aesthetics while simultaneously maintaining efficient functionality. They can add depth and color to a façade and may adapt to meet a wide range of performance requirements, from temperature resistance to impact resistance to UV protection and more. Rodeca, a leading company in the polycarbonate panel industry, offers high-quality products with high customizability vis-à-vis colors, transparency levels, treatments, profiles, sizes, joint systems, and more. Below is a detailed list of these many options, accompanied by diagrams and installation steps. We also discuss several case studies where polycarbonate facades have been used to great success, taking full advantage of the options available alongside the intrinsic aesthetic qualities of the translucent panels to complement and elevate their designs.

House Surrounded by Greenery / MIDE architetti

Alexandria Bramley — Sun, 08 Aug 2021 02:00:00 +0000

The project involves the construction of a new single-family house developed on one level. The location of the building exploits the full potential of the plot: the house creates privacy and protection for the most intimate environments and opens up towards the large private garden.

Villa SP / depaolidefranceschibaldan architetti

Pilar Caballero — Sat, 20 Feb 2021 07:00:00 +0000

The particularity of the area suggested a building intervention that re-proposes, in the current interpretation, a residential building that can be traced back to an architecture that respects the surrounding natural environment and with references to traditional forms and building techniques. The intention behind the project was therefore to create a discreet architectural volume, developed on a single level, that dialogues with the surrounding rural landscape and can find a discreet and proportionate insertion.

GR House / REISARCHITETTURA

Paula Pintos — Fri, 31 Jan 2020 02:00:00 +0000

The house is located in Puglia’s countryside and combines an original stone structure and a modern extension with minimal taste. The white lime paint combines tradition and contemporaneity giving to the whole a homogeneous image. The project is conceived with a strong integration between outdoor and interior space prioritizing summer-life in nature to relax away from working stress.

Ceviv Winery / Reisarchitettura

Daniel Tapia — Mon, 10 Dec 2018 16:00:00 +0000

The project involves the enlargement of CEVIV winery in Susegana (Treviso) in two phases. The first provides a new office building and an open-air platform for 20 wine-tanks and autoclaves, the second another platform for 24 new tanks. The project main idea is to have the facade of the office's block and the enclosure of the platforms with the same cladding, in order to have a “volume” with a unique treatment.

BS House / Reisarchitettura

Rayen Sagredo — Mon, 12 Nov 2018 01:00:00 +0000

A SMART STUDIO-HOUSE IN THE COUNTRYSIDE OF PUGLIA
In the countryside of Ostuni a refuge immersed in Valle D'Itria, smart and connected, to work and relax. The house reinterprets with a contemporary taste the traditional shapes and materials of rural Puglia and is integrated in the landscape, while home automation technology allows complete control through app on Smart Device and optimizes energy consumption for total independence.

Renovation House / MIDE architetti

Cristobal Rojas — Sat, 14 Jul 2018 02:00:00 +0000

The project involves the renovation and expansion of a single dwelling of the early 70 's, located in a residential area in Abano Terme. The project site is spread over two floors above ground and it is faithful to the original plan involving four large rooms on each floor, distributed through a central corridor. The functional needs of the clients matched with the existing distribution, whereby the proposed project will preserve as much of the existing masonry as feasible, without subverting the original plans, and in turn resulting in an economically sustainable project.

Renovation of a Single House / MIDE architetti

Cristobal Rojas — Tue, 09 Jan 2018 05:00:00 +0000

Renovation of a semi-detached house situated in the Venice province, centered within a large parcel in the rural area of the city of Jesolo.