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MD41 Dots Longare Children’s Center With Circular Windows Beneath a Pitched Roof
Italian studio MD41 has completed the Luisa Basso Children’s Center in Longare, uniting a nursery and a preschool…
Anna Kamyshan Suspends a Synagogue on a Floating Rock Above Venice’s Lagoon
Anna Kamyshan, the London and New York–based Ukrainian artist and architect, sends a synagogue over Venice’s Arsenale Nord…
NOA Centers Nightclub La Perla in Merano Around a Glass-Enclosed Madonna Shrine
A statue of the Virgin Mary, requested by the clients against every convention of nightclub design, became the…
Valari Studio Restores a Puglian Farmhouse Around Rediscovered Stone Arches
Two monumental stone arches, buried for decades under later renovations, surfaced during construction and ended up deciding the…
Chromastudio Threads a Milan Apartment’s Rooms Together Through Colour Alone
Residenza B05 treats colour as structure, not decoration — the mechanism that organizes the apartment where walls would…
RigonSimonetti Turns a Venetian Villa’s Barchessa Into Offices and a Café Hall
Leaving Vicenza on the Pasubio state road, the historic Villa Donà in Motta di Costabissara now reads as…
DEFERRARI+MODESTI Leaves a Rediscovered Fresco Exposed in a Florence Bedroom
In a ground-floor Florence apartment where exploratory tests during a renovation surfaced a centuries-old fresco, DEFERRARI+MODESTI chose not…
Herzog & de Meuron Extends a Greenhouse Pavilion for Mandarin Oriental’s L’Aria
At the Mandarin Oriental Lago di Como‘s newest restaurant, the same marble-topped counter serves as a breakfast buffet…
Riccardo Cambó Redraws Italy’s Driving License for Wallets and Phones Alike
Italian designer Riccardo Cambó has redesigned Italy’s driving license and ID card as a matched physical-and-digital set, shrinking…
Archventil Reopens Its First Milan Studio as a Creative Headquarters and Home
Archventil has reopened its studio at the same Milan address where the company began: Corso San Gottardo 8,…
Officina82 Designs a Treehouse Inspired by Liguria’s Sliding Barn Roofs
Perched above a stand of oak trees on a private countryside estate in Garessio, TreeBOX borrows its rising…
A Trentino Valley’s Forgotten Tools Become a Lesson in Design Without an Author
At Palazzo Migazzi in Cogolo di Peio, designer Alessio Ramundo has spent five years collecting the obsolete tools…
Studio GISTO Turns Four Bookcases into Load-Bearing Walls for Frakas
Milan and Treviso-based studio/workshop Studio GISTO has built a new production room inside Frakas Design Studio’s headquarters on…
In a 1960s Roman Flat, 02A Studio Wraps a Corridor Fix in Red Lacquer
At Casa Barro, a 1960s Rome apartment reworked by 02A Studio (Marco Rulli and Thomas Grossi), a curved,…
Valeriano Boragina Turns Hotel Trame’s Bed Into a Room Within a Room
At Hotel Trame, a new boutique hotel in Rome’s Sant’Eustachio district, Valeriano Boragina designs the bed as a…
bump studio Turns a Fragmented, Non-Parallel Genoa Apartment Into a Game of Tetris
Tetris, bump studio‘s renovation of a 93 sqm (1,001 sq ft) apartment in Genoa, resolves a fragmented, non-parallel…
Erika Genesio Converts Noble Piedmontese Farmhouse Into Six-Suite Country Relais
Erika Genesio‘s restoration of Vigne del Fagnano 1709 in Santo Stefano Belbo refuses to let the estate feel…
Atelierzero Splits One Milan Residence Into Two Units Sharing a Single Bold Color
Atelierzero turned Milan’s most overlooked architectural element, the corridor, into the organizing feature of an entire renovation. The…
Atelierzero’s Container 03 Tests How Long a 20-Foot Compact Home Actually Works
Atelierzero‘s Container 03 turns the promise of micro living against itself, staging a compact interior that performs its…
Studio Francesco Faccin Builds De Cecco’s First Store Around a Bronze Pasta Die
Studio Francesco Faccin treats a De Cecco flagship store less like a shop and more like a museum…
Margine Divides a Roman Apartment into Pink, Yellow, Blue and Green Instead of Walls
Margine treats color as a load-bearing decision at Casa Tahiti, dividing a Roman apartment’s private rooms by hue…