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AP House Urbino / GGA gardini gibertini architects

Cristobal Rojas — Sat, 29 Aug 2020 15:00:00 +0000

‘AP House’ bears witness to the rebirth of an ancient rural hamlet situated on the top of one of the highest hills in Urbino, highly esteemed for its landscape and environment. The new system of buildings stands on ancient remains dating back to Medieval Communes. Linked to each other on the hypogeum level, the structures rest on a red concrete platform (38 X 20 mt) dominating the surrounding landscape. The core of the houses, which forms a single housing unit, restablishes a central role to this site in the landscape, restoring a direct and empathic dialogue between new buildings and historical stratification. The structures, in their stone shell, free from any superfetations such as gutters or drainpipes andin their measured proportions, are offered to the landscape as pure, discreet and silent artifacts recovering their identity and affinity with the rural cultural matrix of the place.

Dolce&Gabbana Office / Piuarch

Daniel Sánchez — Mon, 05 Oct 2015 01:00:00 +0000

A new office for Dolce&Gabbana, on Viale Piave in Milan.

Humanitas / FTA Filippo Taidelli Architetto

Javier Gaete — Wed, 17 Jul 2013 00:00:00 +0000

The project foresees the renovation of an existing building in disuse within the hospital complex of the Humanitas Institute in Rozzano (just outside of Milan) that will serve as the new headquarters and landmark symbol of the Humanitas group.

Dolce&Gabbana Office Building / Piuarch

Jonathan Alarcón — Fri, 07 Jun 2013 00:00:00 +0000

The long, narrow shape of the lot and the volume of the preexisting building have led to a compositional solution involving three parallel buildings. The building on Viale Piave and the one farther back rise seven floors above ground. The central body, connected to the rest of the construction by means of a system of stairs and skyways, has three floors and is suspended over a body that connects the three buildings, perpendicular to Viale Piave and rising four floors above ground. This way a large, deep inner courtyard is created, overlooked by all the buildings. The plan also provides for three underground floors, two of which to be used for parking.

Zumbini / Binocle

Karen Cilento — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 00:00:00 +0000

After co-founding studiometrico, Italian architect, Lorenzo Bini, has recently opened a new architectural firm in Milan entitled Binocle. Bini takes his creativity displayed in his Bastard flagship store in Milan (the converted cinema received the coveted ArchDaily Building of the Year Award for Interiors in 2009), to a different level with this transformed reuse project for offices in Via Zumbini, Milan. The project includes a complete overhaul of an existing industrial building from the 1930s and the construction of a new entity to create 17 units of 100 and 150 sqm available for small practices in search of a workplace.

Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton / Fabiola Minas Roberto Murgia Simona Oberti

Christopher Henry — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 00:00:00 +0000

In a 1960’s Gio Ponti building right in the centre of Milan, the international law firm CGSH has expanded its existing offices, developing a multipurpose space in the basement of the building. The main challenge of the project concerned the lack of direct sun light and the need to ensure appropriate sound and thermal insulation. Hence, the idea of realizing an external “light box” made of glass, with a wooden functional ring on the inside, so to leave out the existing structure and plants of the building.

New EDI Headquarters / tiarstudio + RMA

Megan Jett — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 00:00:00 +0000

In the Chinatown of Milan, Effetti Digitali Italiani (EDI), category leader in the sector of post production for cinema and television, has opened its new headquarters in a converted a 50's factory. The light filters through a roof with beautiful vaulted sheds more than 7 meters high. Once full of metal work machinery, the space today is made of three navels, each thirty five meters long. The project focused on maintaining the original industrial nature of the space.