Tag Carlo Ratti

27-01-2021

WHOSE THE FAULT: PLASTIC OR MAN?

“We are consuming resources that future generations should have inherited. The Earth is a closed system. And if in a closed system we continue to consume without measure, the resources will run out. No other species would do that”— Stefano Mancuso

14-01-2021

CRA-Carlo Ratti Associati designs new science campus at University of Milan

The new campus, which will house the University of Milan’s scientific departments, will be built inside the so-called MIND-Milano Innovation District, located within the former Expo 2015 site. The architectural concept was designed by the CRA-Carlo Ratti Associati architecture firm for the Australian Lendlease real estate group, whom the University’s Board of Directors entrusted with the entire process of building and managing the campus.

05-11-2020

Carlo Ratti Associati and Italo Rota MEET Digital Culture Center Milano

MEET is a new centre for digital culture and creative technology in Milan designed by CRA-Carlo Ratti Associati and Italo Rota in a historic building in the heart of the Porta Venezia district. The project centres around a large vertical public space containing the Living Staircase, a "habitable" stairwell 15 metres high representing the core of all the activities and events that take place every day at MEET. The new Digital Culture Center opened to the public on October 31, 2020.

26-08-2020

Carlo Ratti Associati expands Brasilia’s historic masterplan with Biotic

The new Brasilia high-tech innovation district surrounded by nature is to be called Biotic. The recently completed expansion project, designed by Carlo Ratti Associati architects practice, began in 2018. It reinterprets the 1955 modernist masterplan created by town planner Lúcio Costa and architect Oscar Niemeyer for the Brazilian city, now a UNESCO world heritage site.

17-06-2020

AMDLCIRCLE and Michele De Lucchi: Z-LIFE offices, Bresso, Milan

Z-LIFE, the new office complex commissioned by pharmaceutical company Zambon for creation by Michele De Lucchi together with his firm AMDLCIRCLE (architecture) and Carlo Ratti Associati (interior furnishings), was officially opened a few months ago in Bresso. An office model created for the future, with some impressive ideas for the post-COVID era.

30-03-2020

Architecture joins the battle against the Covid-19 virus

An international team of architects, engineers, doctors, military experts and NGOs has implemented an open-source project for conversion of shipping containers into intensive care units which can be set up rapidly wherever there is a medical emergency, such as Covid-19. The first prototype is currently under construction in Milan, Italy, with contributions by Carlo Ratti Associati and Italo Rota.

19-04-2018

Architects and Architecture at Salone del Mobile and Fuorisalone

For five days Milan becomes the world capital of architecture: the hot topic of the week not only in the exhibition pavilions but all over the city. Numerous architects will be opening their studies to the public, hosting events and initiatives introducing the general public to the discipline.

18-04-2018

Trends at Fuorisalone and Salone del Mobile 2018

Climate change, nature, new digital technologies, and multifunctional interconnected spaces are the key themes emerging from the 57th Salone del Mobile di Milano and Fuorisalone events.