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24-06-2020
Premio Italiano di Architettura 2020 Award for Lifetime Achievement assigned to Renzo Piano
Triennale di Milano and Maxxi, the National Museum of 21st Century Arts in Rome, with the support of MiBACT, the Italian culture ministry, held the first edition of Premio Italiano di Architettura, the Italian Prize for Architecture, in 2020. The first prize to be presented is the Award for Lifetime Achievement, which goes to Renzo Piano, the 1998 Pritzker Prize winning architect with a life-long appointment to the Italian senate. The awards ceremony will be held at Maxxi in Rome on June 30, on the occasion of the opening of the YAP Rome at MAXXI 2020 project, when the winners in the categories for the best built projects will be announced.
30-05-2018
Temporary installations between the natural and the artificial
A number of interesting temporary installations for Fuorisalone and Euroflora experiment with different architectural materials and idioms. At Fuorisalone 2018, Carrara Causeway, created by architect Marco Porpora for Ariostea, Piuarch’s AgrAir and Labics’ Visionair; and Locus Amoenus, an installation by ENTER Studio and OBR, bringing architecture to Euroflora 2018.
13-12-2017
OBR and the Piazza del Vento in Genoa
Genoa, aka "la Superba" (the proud city) has a new urban attraction designed by the architectural firm OBR.
05-10-2017
OBR Piazza del Vento: a new urban landmark for Genoa
The 22nd September saw the inauguration, at the 57th Boat Show in Genoa, of La Piazza del Vento, the city’s new urban landmark designed by the OBR studio of architects Paolo Brescia and Tommaso Principi, inspired by Renzo Piano.
24-05-2017
Gianluca Peluffo 5+1AA Architecture Days conference 2017
A conference with architect Gianluca Peluffo of 5+1AA is one of the final events of Architecture Days 2017 promoted by Architekturstiftung Südtirol - the Alto Adige Architecture Foundation.
26-12-2016
Recipe: Panettone… Genovese
Italy has many different kinds of Christmas cake, not only the well-known Panettone from Milan. One of these is the Genoese Pandolce, with its classic low shape, containing pine nuts and hazelnuts as well as candied fruit and raisins
20-12-2016
Sustainable renovation of a villa in Liguria
A 1907 home in the hinterland of the Italian region of Liguria has been delicately restored to retain its original charm while at the same time adopting innovative, energy-saving technology.
02-08-2016
FLASHBACK photography exhibition, Genoa
The Palazzo Ducale in Genoa is hosting an exhibition on 50 years of photography in Italy.
13-07-2016
Smoke, Mark Handforth at Villa Croce, Genoa
Artist Mark Handforth is exhibiting existing and specifically created artworks in the neoclassic spaces of the Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Villa Croce in Genoa.
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