Tag Milan

25-11-2022

The Moon Garden completes Milan’s Portello Park

The Moon Garden is the last lot in a project commissioned by Iper Montebello Spa, designed by Charles Jencks and Andreas Kipar and developed by LAND Italia on the former Alfa Romeo industrial site at Portello. This final lot concludes a process that began more than 20 years ago, bringing the size of the park up to a total of about 73 thousand square metres.

21-11-2022

De Castillia 23 receives the CTBUH 2022 Award of Excellence

The De Castillia 23 complex redeveloped by Progetto CMR has received the CTBUH’s 2022 Award of Excellence in the “Best Tall Building under 100 metres” category. The redevelopment project involved use of Active Surfaces® ceramic slabs from Fiandre Architectural Surfaces installed on a Granitech® ventilated façade system.

18-11-2022

Milano Design Film Festival - design seen through the language of film

The 10th edition of the Milano Design Film Festival is underway: from November 22 to 26 five days of initiatives and screenings will unfold in various venues across the city including the Triennale Milano, the Anteo Palazzo del Cinema and the ADI Design Museum, with more than 40 titles dedicated to architecture and design.

15-11-2022

Andrea Maffei Architects design DAV Restaurant in the Allianz Tower in Milan

Andrea Maffei Architects has created the interior design project of the DAV restaurant located in the Citylife complex in Milan, on the first floor of the Allianz Tower designed by Arata Isozaki and Andrea Maffei himself.

10-11-2022

Ernesto Oroza: “There’s no such thing as neutral design”

From his Cuban origins and the experience of crisis that engulfed the Caribbean island in the nineties to his career inspired by Italian radical design, Ernesto Oroza, artist and designer, professor and researcher at ESADSE - École Supérieure d’Art et Design de Saint-Étienne, talked to BASE Milano about his militant vision of design, an essential part of which is a shared and never separate practice.

10-11-2022

Flaviano Capriotti Architetti, interior design between memory and art

The Flaviano Capriotti Architetti studio has created the interior design project for an apartment in Torre al Parco, a twenty-storey residential building designed by Vico Magistretti and Franco Longoni and built in Milan in Via Revere, adjacent to the Sempione Park, in the 1950s.

07-11-2022

Snøhetta and Kjetil Trædal Thorsen guests of The Architects Series

For its 26th episode, The Architects Series, the exhibition format curated by The Plan magazine for the Iris Ceramica Group, is enriched by the contribution of new important international guests. Architect Kjetil Trædal Thorsen, co-founder of Snøhetta, will hold a live streamed lecture from the Iris Ceramica Group's Milan Flagship Store to describe the studio's design approach and present to the public some of the studio's most important projects.

20-10-2022

What design has to say to the present

The proof that design is culture, and therefore a tool for deciphering our times, may be found at the ADI Design Museum in Milan, where all the projects and products that have won Compasso d’Oro awards are gathered together. A new exhibition entitled “Presente Permanente” focuses on precursors of the contemporary.

23-08-2022

Asti Architetti and the restoration of the Torre Velasca in Milan

The architecture firm Asti Architetti oversaw the restoration project of the Torre Velasca, built between 1956 and 1958 by the BBPR architectural partnership, which has since then become a landmark of this Italian city. After 18 months of renovation work and more than two years of planning, this iconic building is about to be visible again within the city and to its citizens. In fact, the scaffolding and tarps that covered the façades are being taken down, and this operation should be completed by the end of September.