Italy

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 […]

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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NOA designs Alpine hotel extension as a play on the mountain skyline

June 1, 2023 Betty Owoo 0

A sweeping roof inspired by the mountain skyline of the Alps defines a hillside extension to the Olympic Spa Hotel by Network of Architecture. Designed to be “in symbiosis” with the landscape, the addition to the hotel in the Dolomites in Val di Fassa, Italy, houses ten new guest suites and a gym. An aerial

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Co.arch Studio creates show kitchen for candied fruit specialist Cesarin

May 30, 2023 Amy Frearson 0

An Italian company that makes candied fruit now has a dedicated space for cookery demonstrations, designed by Milan-based architecture office Co.arch Studio. Cesarin has produced its fruity bakery products at a factory between Verona and Vicenza in Italy for over 100 years. Co.arch Studio founders Andrea Pezzoli and Giulia Urciuoli worked with the company to

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Il Capri Hotel receives pink-heavy revamp from Graziella Buontempo and Arnaud Lacombe

May 28, 2023 Dan Howarth 0

A husband-and-wife hotelier duo has renovated a hotel in a Venetian-style palazzo on the island of Capri, refreshing its pastel-pink facade and continuing the hue into the guest rooms. Il Capri Hotel was built in the 19th century as a private villa in the Neo-gothic Venetian style before being transformed into a hotel in 1899.

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