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The Rome Edition opens in converted 1940s bank building

August 23, 2023 Dan Howarth 0

American entrepreneur Ian Schrager’s The Edition group has landed in Rome, opening a hotel in a converted bank that makes use of its soaring lobby, original marble staircases and hidden front courtyard. The Rome Edition began welcoming guests earlier this year to the 91-room hotel, located a block away from Via Veneto – the street

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San Siro saved from demolition due to its cultural significance

August 14, 2023 Cajsa Carlson 0

The iconic San Siro in Milan, which was set to be replaced by a Populous-designed stadium, has been saved from demolition because of its “cultural heritage”. The stadium, which is shared by Italian football clubs Inter Milan and AC Milan, was rescued from demolition by the Regional Commission for the Cultural Heritage of Lombardy due

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Andrew Trotter and Marcelo Martínez refresh 17th-century home where time “stood still”

August 4, 2023 Cajsa Carlson 0

Casa Soleto, a 17th-century house in Puglia, Italy, has been carefully renovated using lime plaster, terrazzo and furniture salvaged from a monastery. The four-bedroom house, parts of which are over 400 years old, was given a refresh by its owners – architecture firm Studio Andrew Trotter and its studio manager Marcelo Martínez. While no structural

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Marcante-Testa blends “unique characteristics of Venetian identity” for Ca’ Select bar and distillery

July 28, 2023 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Italian studio Marcante-Testa has turned an industrial building in Venice into the canal-side Ca’ Select bar, visitor centre and production facility. Set alongside a small canal in the Cannareggio district of Venice, the bar and distillery belong to the company behind Select Aperitivo – the main ingredient of a Venetian Spritz. “The history of Select is

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Cava Arcari performance space by David Chipperfield captured in new photos

July 26, 2023 Lizzie Crook 0

British photographer Edmund Sumner has captured the monolithic performance space that David Chipperfield Architects crafted within Cava Arcari, a cave near Vicenza in Italy. Completed in 2018, the project by David Chipperfield Architects transformed the cave from its former use as a Vicenza stone quarry. The new photos by Sumner capture the imposing details of the

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Handmade Elongated Bricks Cover The Exterior Of This Home

July 10, 2023 Erin 0

Photography ©Paolo Abate MoDusArchitects has sent us photos of a modern home they recently completed in South Tyrol, Italy, that’s faced in handmade bricks. Photography ©Gustav Willeit The home, located in a small town and surrounded by vineyards, appears as a single-family house, however, it’s actually divided into two separate units, one for the main […]

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Pinwheel house by JM Architecture resembles “a white pebble in the landscape”

July 4, 2023 Jon Astbury 0

Glossy white-concrete panels clad this holiday home with a pentagonal plan in Italy, which has been designed by Milan studio JM Architecture. The dwelling is named Pinwheel after its distinctive shape, which was JM Architecture’s solution for the client’s “only request” – that it offers views of both the nearby Lake Maggiore and surrounding alpine

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Studio Wok designs Milan bakery Pan as contemporary take on Japanese culture

June 19, 2023 Kate Jacobs 0

Architecture practice Studio Wok has created a matcha-green counter and Japanese-style fabric panels for bakery and wine bar Pan in Milan’s Acquabella district. The studio created the eatery, which is led by Japanese chefs Yoji Tokuyoshi and Alice Yamada, to have an interior that would represent a meeting between Japan and Milan. “There are references

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MAST set to transform abandoned Milanese sand quarry into floating park

June 8, 2023 Rebecca Grove 0

Copenhagen-based architecture studio MAST has unveiled plans to create a park with floating buildings and islands called Centroparco in an abandoned sand quarry on the outskirts of Milan. Located at the centre of the Segrate district on the outskirts of Milan, the aim of the project is to bring together several neighbourhoods that were previously

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India Mahdavi enlivens Rome’s Villa Medici with bold geometric furnishings

June 6, 2023 Natasha Levy 0

Architect India Mahdavi has updated six rooms within Rome’s 16th-century Villa Medici to feature an array of contemporary and colourful furniture. The intervention comes as part of a three-year project called Re-enchanting Villa Medici, which was launched in 2022 to amplify the presence of contemporary design and craft within the Renaissance palace. While the first

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