Posts Tagged ‘Milan’
Saturday, May 11th, 2013
Article source: MenoMenoPiu Architects + BE.ST Architect
Our proposal for the Italian Pavilion at the Milan 2015 Expo is a light cage where the technical innovation is embedded within the structure: revolutionary glass columns sustain traditional slabs clad in marble. The building is simple and elegant in its structural system. Marble and glass are intertwined expressing the Italian architectural tradition of proportion and elegance.
Nature makes its way through the thin marble: tress are allowed to grow tall through holes in the slabs, recalling the central role of nature in a healthy feeding culture. These holes let the light from above reach the ground level where the covered plaza stands. The latter is trimmed by a thin water layer which creates small “islands” and a mirror-like surface. Water and shadow cool down the temperature of the plaza so offering a shelter from the sunny space before the circular pond at the end of the Cardo.
 Image courtesy MenoMenoPiu Architects + BE.ST Architect
- Architects: MenoMenoPiu Architects + BE.ST Architect
- Project: The Slabs – Italian Pavilion Expo 2015
- Location: Milan, Italy
- Project Team: MenoMenoPiu Architects – Rocco Valantines, Mario Emanuele Salini, Marco Lavit Nicora, Paolo Carignano, Alessandro Balducci
- Project Team: BE.ST Architect – Stefano Belingardi Clusoni
- Software used:
2d Autocad
3d Rhinoceros
Rendering 3ds max
Post Production Photoshop
Tags: Italy, Milan
No Comments »
Thursday, April 25th, 2013
Article source: Andrea Maffei Architects
The competition rules required to design five buildings aligned along the Cardo that characterizes the entire masterplan EXPO 2015 until a large circular water lake. They consist in four two-storey linear buildings that contain various exhibition spaces, market and restaurant and the Italian Pavilion itself. This had to be develop in a square area of 57.5 meters side and a maximum height of 25 meters. The Palace was supposed to represent a symbolic message of representation of the beautiful country and we wanted to develop it according to the following concepts.
 Image courtesy Andrea Maffei Architects
- Architects: Andrea Maffei Architects
- Project: Italian Pavillion EXPO 2015
- Location: Milan, Italy
- Program: Pavilion for exhibition
- Client: EXPO 2015 S.p.A.
- Competition time: Dec. 2012 – Feb. 2013
- Design team: Takeshi Miura, Alessandra De Stefani, Stefano Bergagna, Takatoshi Oki, Roberto Balduzzi / Andrea Maffei Architects s.r.l. Milano
- Structure: Alberto Ferrari, Steve Alemanno / Ramboll Ltd.
- Facade: Nicoletta Bacchin / Ramboll Ltd.
- Mep plants: Giancarlo Tanzi / Techproject srl
- Firefighting: Maria Elena Perrotta, Giancarlo Tanzi / Techproject srl
- Cost control: Techproject srl
- Security coordination: Techproject srl
- Construction program: Techproject srl
- Net area: 10,146.6 smq.
- Gross area: 12,758.4 smq.
- Maximum height: 25 m
- Materials: concrete, steel, glass, wood
Tags: Italy, Milan
No Comments »
Saturday, April 20th, 2013
Article source: Migliore+Servetto Architects
The project designed by Migliore+Servetto Architects for the Milan Design Week is a meeting plaza where you can walk among products and novelties 2013. Along the sides of this “promenade”, portions of paving arise as an origami paper, folding up in unusual angles, whilst the mirrored surfaces give to the space a new dimension. The deep yellow choice for the outer flooring surface helps to create a greater sense of contrast between inside and outside, designing a sort of chromatic perimeter. On the background a high bookcase hosts an installation as a narration of some specific products and lights together with a multimedia video communication.
 Image Courtesy © Chiara Berselli
- Architects: Migliore+Servetto Architects
- Project: “Pedrali Mirror”Stand | Salone del Mobile 2013
- Location: Fiera Milano, Rho, Italy
- Photography: Chiara Berselli
- Client: Pedrali
- Design by: Ico Migliore and Mara Servetto – Migliore+Servetto Architects
- Date: Milan Design Week, April 2013
Tags: Italy, Milan
No Comments »
Thursday, April 11th, 2013
Article source: Andrea Maffei + Arata Isozaki
Milan is the city that best represents the international face of Italy, comparable to London, Frankfurt, Paris. Unlike many historical Italian cities, Milan is more related to its development in the nineteenth and twentieth century, to be more precise after the industrial revolution. In this sense, design in Milan is compared with the more contemporary face of Italy, made up of factories, subways, concrete and steel and not so much of particular historical preseces. Witness is the fact that the Futurist movement has developed mainly in Milan, a movement created to respond to the issues of the contemporary city. It was not a particularly important relationship with the large existing masterpieces, but rather a reflection on the themes of the contemporary city.
 Image courtesy Andrea Maffei + Arata Isozaki
- Architects: Andrea Maffei Architects & Arata Isozaki & Associates
- Project: CityLife Skyscraper
- Location: Milan, Italy
- Competition: 2003
- Architecture: Andrea Maffei Architects (Milan), Arata Isozaki & Associates (Tokyo)
- Design: 2004-2010
- Construction: 2011-2014
- Program: office tower
- Gross floor surface: 92.907 square meters
- Total height: 202 meters
- Materials: reinforced concrete, steel, glass
- Client: CityLife s.r.l., Milan
- Coordination: Pietro Bertozzi, Takeshi Miura
- Collaborators: Adolfo Berardozzi, Chiara Zandri, Alessandra De Stefani, Vincenzo Carapellese, Francesca Chezzi, Roberto Berbati, Hidenari Arai, Carlotta Maranesi, Higaki Seisuke, Atsuko Suzuki
Tags: Italy, Milan
No Comments »
Thursday, March 21st, 2013
Article source: Giuseppe Tortato
Giuseppe Tortato signs La Forgiatura, the redevelopment of an industrial area of Milan that demonstrates how it is possible to work on an urban area in a nonviolent way. The new multi-purpose complex is characterized by a distinctive sign that arises from the culture and history of the original place marrying technology and natural environment, with a strong integration between architecture and landscape.
 Image Courtesy © Stefano Topuntoli
- Architects: Giuseppe Tortato
- Project: La Forgiatura
- Location: Milan, Italy
- Photography: Stefano Topuntoli
- client: La Forgiatura S.r.l.Milano, Via Varesina 158
- developer: Realstep property management
- Credits Project: Giuseppe Tortato, Milano Layout
- Project Manager: Marco Bettalli
- Design team: Marco Bettalli, Giorgia Celli, Barbara Storchi, Antonio Urru
- Executive project: A&I progetti, Stefano Niccoli
- structure: Biesse Consulting, Bruno Salesi
- Plants: Tekser s.r.l., Stefano De Marchi
- Landscape: AG&P
- Art direction: Giuseppe Tortato, Milano Layout
- General contractor: G.D.M. costruzioni S.p.a
- Masterplan floorspace: 24.000,00 mq
- Gardens: 8.000,00 mq
- Software used:
(more…)
Tags: Italy, Milan
No Comments »
Thursday, March 14th, 2013
Article source: Goring & Straja Studio
The exterior of the project in dialogue with the interior.
The architectural context has influenced the design of interior spaces in two ways: positively and negatively; the building it is not exactly an office building, quite the opposite, because there are no requirements such as flexibility and efficiency. So, we found in the site unusual features in 99% of the offices. I mean double-height spaces, or plan without large rectangular areas and depth, that could suggest us some different lay out.
 Image Courtesy © Luc Boegly
- Architects: Goring & Straja Studio
- Project: Autodesk. New Office
- Location: Via Tortona 37, Milan, Italy
- Photography: Luc Boegly
- Architect: André Straja
- Project Team: Giacomo Sicuro, Simone Marchiorato, Stefan Davidovici, Camilla Guerritore, Elisa Mori, Naohisa Hosoo, John North.
- For Leed Process: Theresia Kurnadi
- Client: Autodesk
- Date of occupancy: 26th of March 2012
- Gross square footage: 850 sqm
- Contractor: Tétris Design & Build
- Project manager: Jones Lang Lasalle
- Consultants: MEP engineers: Varese controlli, LEED Commisioning: Greenwich
- Key materials (type/brand): handmade Venetian plaster, cement, wood, glass, ancient tools for technical drawing (details)
- Software used: Autodesk® 3ds Max® Design, AutoCAD®
- Awards/certifications: LEED® Gold for Commercial Interiors
Tags: Italy, Milan
No Comments »
Thursday, February 28th, 2013
Article source: Flores Prats Arquitectos
In 2007 Microsoft Italia chose to establish its headquarters in a rural landscape characterized by the seasonally shifting pattern of agricultural production. The proposal focused on the condition of agricultural fringe, an opportunity to create a transition; to create a meeting point between two technologies, working the fields and working with computers. These two realms of technology develop in parallel, with neither prevailing over the other.
 Image Courtesy Flores Prats Arquitectos
- Architects: Flores Prats Arquitectos
- Project: Microsoft Milan
- Location: Milan, Italy
- Photography: Enzo Barraco, Filippo Romano, Filippo Abrami
- Situation: Peschiera Borromeo, Milan, Italia.
- Project: August 2007- August 2008.
- Construction: December 2008 – August 2011.
- Promoter: Microsoft Italia + Vitali Spa.
- Architecture and Landscape: Flores & Prats, Barcelona.
- Engineer: Studio MPartner Srl, Milan;
- Botanic Adviser: Luigino Pirola, Bérgamo
- LEED Certification: Greenwich Srl
- Interiors: ReValue, Milan.
- Area: 150.000 m2 of plot.
- Budget: 150.000.000 euros.
- Program: Campus for Microsoft Italia. Offices and services 45.260m2; Auditorium for 400 people, 2.560m2; Kindergarten for 90 kids, 3.000m2; Underground Parking for 1000 cars, 26.500m2; Landscape 55.000m2.
- Awards: First International Prize Dédalo-Minosse inVicenza, June 2011. LEED GOLD Certification (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design)
- Software used: A combination of hand drawing with Computer Assisted Design
Tags: Italy, Milan
No Comments »
Wednesday, December 19th, 2012
Article source: Mario Cucinella Architects
MCA has designed Pioltello, near Milan, the new headquarters of the 3M company. The building is the first part of a masterplan of the area conceived by MCA in 2005 to be realized. It is a terraced, linear structure, 105 meters long by 21 wide, varying in height from two to five floors.
 Image Courtesy MCArchitects
Tags: Italy, Milan
No Comments »
Tuesday, December 4th, 2012
Article source: Migliore+Servetto Architects
The project designed by Migliore+Servetto Architects for Pedrali has just been awarded in London with the Fx International Interior Design Awards 2012 – Museum or Exhibition Space category.
Organized by the English magazine FX, the 14th Fx International Interior Design Awards gives a prize to the best of interior projects and products from all over the world, realized from June 2010 to July 2012.
 Image Courtesy Migliore+Servetto Architects
- Architects: Migliore+Servetto Architects
- Project: A Wheel For Pedrali
- Location: Milan, Italy
- Design by: Ico Migliore and Mara Servetto – Migliore+Servetto Architects
- Date: Design week, April 2012
- Client: Pedrali
- Photographer: Chiara Berselli
(more…)
Tags: Italy, Milan
No Comments »
Monday, December 3rd, 2012
Article source: Arkispazio
MuMAC, Museum of Coffee Machine, was designed by Paolo Balzanelli owner of Arkispazio and Valerio Cometti founder of Valerio Cometti+V12 Design in order to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Cimbali Group, the most important pofessional coffee machine manufacturer in the world, through its legendary brands LaCimbali and Faema.
 Image Courtesy Angelo Margutti & Associati
- Architects: Arkispazio
- Project: Museum MUMAC Museum of Coffee Machine
- Location: Milan, Italy
- Project Team: Karolina Kolodziej, Massimo Lapenna, Roberto Lamanna
- Photography: Angelo Margutti & Associati
- Client: Gruppo Cimbali
- Head designers: Paolo Balzanelli, Valerio Cometti
- Structural Engineering: Francesco Terreni
- MEP Engineering: Antonio Bozino
- Built Surface: 1800 m2
- Building Opening: October 2012
- Software used: Autocad and 3d Studio Max
Tags: Italy, Milan
No Comments »
|
|
email
Facebook
Twitter
RSS Feed
