Electrolux’s Innovation Factory is a place for experimenting with new ideas, a flexible setting where Electrolux’s partners and other potential players from the world of R&D can work together, interact and promote effective and innovative synergies.
Designed and constructed under the supervision of DEGW – a brand belonging to the Lombardini22 Group focused on the integrated design of workplaces – is a 1000 m² space inside the old Electrolux manufacturing plant in Porcia (Pordenone), which is the result of restructuring the main factory on the old industrial site set up by Lino Zanussi in 1954.
An industrial mood in a late 19th-century building: we are talking about the new Fox headquarters in Rome, which has moved from its old premises in via Salaria (where Sky is also located) to new offices in downtown Piazza San Silvestro (in the same location that will also accommodate Apple).
Fox takes up the third floor of the building: 3500 m² for 200 people entirely designed by DEGW, the Lombardini22 Group’s brand devoted to the integrated design of workplaces: everything from the original consultancy phase to the stacking plan, including new concepts for using space (also for management) and with the introduction of ancillary areas custom-designed for miscellaneous work purposes.
The restoring intervention involves a little building, located at the border of the consolidated urban fabric of Trequanda, a small village in a hilly Tuscan area, the so called “creste senesi”.
The project includes a series of little and precise interventions, which redefine detailed aspects of the building.
Two connecting apartments with two brilliant sisters as clients. The first one, facing the street, where high ceilings with decorations and original parquet flooring were matched with a bright-coloured treatment of walls and peculiar pieces of furniture. The restoration of the old doors, directly linking the three rooms – living area, kitchen area, bedroom / atelier – had a very evocative perspective as a result. In the second one, facing the inner courtyard, the living area and the bedroom area are pleasantly linked, however a scenographic sliding panel guarantees a good privacy level. The steel-made kitchen meets the client’s needs, as she is a professional cook. A little balcony with a centenary wisteria growing all up perfectly tops the apartment off.
Soft lines, custom furniture and artworks are the elements that characterize the intervention on the interior of this newly built villa in the Mondello area, a beautiful bay at the gates of Palermo, Sicily, Italy.
With twice the surface area, the coffee shop has been completely renovated, giving it a fresh, welcoming and comfortable new atmosphere.
A bright colour palette distinguishes the new decor. The checked wallpaper recalls school exercise books, the stepped seating and the screens modulate the space over which the lightweight and graphic lamps glide. The bar is tiled with coloured joints.
Particular attention has been given to the research of the materials: marble chip for the tables, brass for the pendant lamps, the fabrics for the cushions made in Senegal by a women’s cooperative. On the ceiling wood fibre panels for soundproofing.
In a recently renewed “vecchia Milano” context, the project completely transforms the interior layout of the apartment re-organizing the spaces and making them wide and open, keeping the structural parts and the staircase in its original position.
The owners – he is a programmer, she works in the publishing industry – have a special taste that reflects in their home.
The Lamm has adorned the main square in Castelrotto since 1670. Unlike the other houses and buildings around the hotel, the property had never really been considered of particular architectural value possibly because of the varied building additions and the restructuring carried out over the course of time. At the beginning of the 1800s, the main building in the square, together with an extension facing west and an edifice joining the former two, made up the hotel complex which stretched along the entire east side of Vicolo Vogelweider. At the start of the last century, the building in the village square had more or less acquired the outline it has today. In the 1970s, the existing extension and connecting building were replaced by a new structure but in 2000, major renovations were undertaken to radically change it: the building was raised, the exterior covered with tavillons and the pitched roof replaced by a single sloping roof, almost like a theatrical drape. A second extension was built along via Dolomiti, the new road created to ease the traffic flow. This was a four-story building in wooden lath plaster with four bay Erker turrets, and a terrace instead of a roof. Both these interventions had a significant damaging impact on the village architectural setting and the rooftop view of the houses in the historic center.
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