Duomo Station is a stop in Naples’ underground Linea 1 and is situated in one of the most well-travelled areas of the city – Piazza Nicola Amore, an historic neapolitan square at the junction of Via Duomo and Corso Umberto I – in terms of residents and tourists. Excavation works for the station have brought to light the foundations of a temple dating back to the I century b.C, as well as several archeological finds of great interest.
The archeological find is crucial to the scheme of the station and the intervention aims to turn the temple into a unique museum area.
Image Courtesy @ Studio Fuksas
Architects: Studio Fuksas (Massimiliano and Doriana Fuksas)
A new, modern headquarter should present the internationally operating enterprise Durst Phototechnik AG as a showpiece and enhance and strengthen Bressanone as a headquarter.
Durst is a world-leading manufacturer of advanced digital production technologies. In the active business areas, Durst is the first choice and a preferred partner for the transformation and digitization of industrial production processes. Durst is a family company with an 80-year history, where the values are focused on innovation, customer orientation, sustainability and quality. Durst employs more than 700 people and has more than 20 subsidiares across the world.
Innovation and history come together in DEGW’s interior design and fitout for the innovation hub created by Crèdit Agricole
An open and inclusive ecosystem supporting business and innovation for start-ups and other companies. There are 2700 m² of space with 200 workstations for accommodating approximately 50 start-ups in the peace and quiet of the renovated cloister of a 14th century convent, whose entrance gate is in a building along Corso di Porta Romana in Milan.
Devised by Crédit Agricole in Paris in 2014, the Le Village project now operates in 29 different locations in France with others soon to open. The project, set to expand internationally, will be opening its first facility outside of France here in Italy. There are also plans to open similar spaces in other Italian and European cities.
Nestled in the heart of the Italian Dolomites is the recently re-built Hotel Gardenazza.
The existing building structure consisted of two parts, the original front dating back to 1939 and a more recent rear extension from the 1990ies. The project scope consisted in replacing the aged 30ies structure with a new 5-storey low-energy building to provide contemporary hotel facilities with a 33 bed capacity as well as meeting current fire and building regulations, which the existing structure was not able to achieve.
The project involves the renovation of a small apartment in Milan consisting of a living room and kitchen, two bedrooms and two bathrooms.
Thanks to the presence of two metal structures it was possible to rethink the complete reorganization of the interior spaces.
The first, in red and pink, is placed in the entrance space; the second, in shades of green, organizes the entire sleeping area.
Designed as “light” elements, the metal frames are used as structures to support closed floors and elements, useful for interior furnishing and the division of the various environments.
An extension project led to a space in which the line between interior and exterior is deliberately light and ethereal – a mere diaphragm between the cloister and the 17th-century monastery that is home to the Truffle Bistrot.
Modern architecture is above all a freedom conquer!
Freedom from mechanical life-style inherited by our cultural evolution, from the analytical reasoning that industrilized our lifes, and freedom from the alienation and fragmentetion of our time and space.
So, how to be faithful to these high principles working inside a simple architectural box?
International design and innovation office CRA-Carlo Ratti Associati has won the “Reinventing Cities” competition organized by the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group with a project for a new office building and center for scientific research in Milan, Italy. The design by CRA features a 200-meter-long (650 feet) urban vineyard that covers the entire building, creating a publicly-accessible footpath that ascends from the street level to the rooftop. The project, called VITAE, was developed with the leading real estate group Covivio in a team with the consortium Habitech as environmental experts. Construction will kick off in late 2019.
The Reinventing Cities competition, promoted by the C40 network of the world’s megacities committed to addressing climate change, is a call for urban projects to drive carbon-neutral and resilient urban regeneration across the globe and to transform underutilized sites into beacons of sustainability and resilience. VITAE has won the competition to reinvent a vacant, post-industrial lot in via Serio, a street in south Milan located a few hundred meters from the Fondazione Prada contemporary art museum. The complex includes a brand-new piazza, adding up to a total of more than 5000 square meters of public space given back to one of the city’s most vibrant neighborhoods.
In collaboration with: Fondazione Politecnico di Milano
Technical consultants: Tekser, Milano Engineering, Studio Idrogeotecnico, Studio di Ingegneria Rigone, DSB Landscape Design, FSC Engineering Srl
CRA Team: Carlo Ratti, Giovanni de Niederhausern, Saverio Panata (project manager), Valentina Grasso (project leader), Anna Morani, Matteo Zerbi, Giovanni Trogu, Ina Sefgjini, Nicola Scaramuzza, Alberto Benetti, Oliver Kazimir Francesca Marino, Greta Stefanova
Renderings by CRA Graphic team: Gary di Silvio, Pasquale Milieri, Gianluca Zimbardi
A Liberty villa near the city center becomes the home of a young family with three children.
The whole creative process starts from subtraction. Open, remove, cut, peel, remove, unveil. A conceptual and physical cleaning work that allowed to reveal the horizontal space of the old house and the new vertical space of the wide central corridor. Through cuts in the floors the view opens up towards the wooden structure of the roof: the two subsequent cuts (crescent and parallelogram) connect the three floors of the house turning the old dark and inadequate corridor in the heart of the house, defined by the multiple levels looks and transitions.
Philip Morris International Inc. (PMI) (NYSE: PM) today presents IQOS World revealed by Alex Chinneck at Milan Design Week 2019, the pinnacle event in the world of art and design. IQOS, the flagship innovation in PMI’s smoke-free portfolio, will host the exhibition to the public April 9-14.
The IQOS World exhibition—which is expected to be visited by more than 50,000 people during Milan Design Week—is an artistic expression of the future, brought to life through a collaboration with well-known sculptor Alex Chinneck, whose art is distinguished by his bold and disruptive vision. Alex’s unique talent for combining art, architecture and theater in his work manifests on a monumental scale: The architecture itself, both inside and out, becomes transformed into a work of art, taking on new and unexpected shapes. The walls and floor become metaphors for a process of transformation, evoking—through imaginative portals—seemingly infinite routes to a newly imagined future.
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