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30-07-2020

Stefano Boeri Architetti China Shenzhen Rehabilitation Centre

An accessible building that is integrated into the fabric of the city and consists of a series of green terraces and overlapping volumes, located next to a big public park and connected directly with the city’s light urban mobility system. A sustainable system combining natural greenery with architecture and biodiversity, where there is a new concept of motorial and cognitive disability. This is how we might describe what the Shenzhen Rehabilitation Centre is, or rather, will be, because China’s biggest and most innovative rehabilitation centre is due to be built over the next three years to plans by the Chinese branch of the Italian studio of Stefano Boeri Architetti.

11-06-2020

KKE Architects’ extension of St. David’s Hospice, Newport

The design of Worcester-based firm KKE Architects for the extension to the St. David’s Hospice in Newport is the result of perfect synergy between the architects and the clients. In the new extension, the architects took on board all the suggestions received from the clients and gained over years of experience in the field in an effort to create comfortable spaces to accommodate the terminally ill and their family members during the difficult journey of end-of-life care. The project has received numerous prizes and awards.

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.

27-03-2020

Fixed aluminium sunbreak for Behnisch Architekten’s AGORA

The expansion on the cancer research centre in Lausanne has a façade with a pyramid-shaped laser-microperforated aluminium sunbreak

06-03-2020

Casey House by Hariri Pontarini Architects, 2020 National Urban Design Awards

Twelve projects across Canada - each one with a massive impact on the surrounding built environment - have been selected for the 2020 National Urban Design Awards. One of these is the renovation and extension by Hariri Pontarini Architects to Casey House, a specialized healthcare facility for individuals with HIV/AIDS.

26-02-2020

Two recent projects by GCA Architects in Catalonia

Two recent projects by GCA Architects reveal how all the Catalonian studio’s projects, independently of their scale and function, are characterised by the same simple, minimal style and holistic, multidisciplinary approach to architecture with a strong focus on technology and environment.

25-02-2020

Mario Cucinella Architects - Two new projects in Tirana and Milan underway

International architecture firm Mario Cucinella Architects recently presented a new project for the city centre of Tirana in Albania: the Ekspozita Building. A mixed-use building characterised by an unusual shape, which seems to embrace a public green space. At the same time, the firm signed an agreement for another important project: the so-called City of Health and Research, a centre of excellence to be built in Sesto San Giovanni, in Milan.

<strong>ONSTAGE: INTERVIEW WITH </strong><strong>TIZIANO BININI, BININI PARTNERS</strong><br />

10-02-2020

ONSTAGE: INTERVIEW WITH TIZIANO BININI, BININI PARTNERS

Binini Partners, founded in 1996, is a professional organization specialized in the design and implementation of complex works and programs in the field of urban planning, architecture and engineering for public and private commissions, from feasibility studies to testing and work activation, in Italy and in the world. According to the list of the top 150 architecture and design companies in Italy, published last year by 'Building and Territory', newspaper of Sole 24Ore, the firm ranks 34th.