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21-04-2021

Richard Yasmine, Flowing Fragments and Size Matters at Milano Design City 2021

Lebanese designer Richard Yasmine has brought two new collections to Milan for Milano Design City 2021, projects responding to impelling issues in design today: reducing waste and upcycling. To ensure continuity in the world of design during the pandemic, they are exhibited on a digital platform created by 5VIE.

23-03-2021

Masquespacio comes to Italy to design the Bun interior in Milan

The duo of Ana Hernández and Christophe Penasse of creative agency Masquespacio bring their creativity to Italy, designing Bun in Milan. The project began with attentive analysis of existing constructions, enhancing them with joyful pastel colours.

09-03-2021

Kengo Kuma & Associates design the office of the future in Milan

Work began on 4 March 2021 in Milan’s Parco Lambro district on "Welcome, feeling at work", an office complex designed by Kengo Kuma & Associates inspired by ”the biophilic effect”: that particular sense of wellbeing that comes from being in natural surroundings, as a result of our innate biological attraction to nature. This ambitious project aims to place the offices of the future in a sustainable building: workspaces combining personal wellness and respect for the environment with sophisticated technological and digital systems.

18-02-2021

Giuseppe Tortato Architetti new Sandvik Headquarters in Milan

For the new Milanese headquarters of the multinational group of companies Sandvik, architect Giuseppe Tortato designs a building that follows the sun and recalls the colours and finishes of La Forgiatura, a project for redevelopment of a former industrial area by the same architect in northwest Milan.

16-02-2021

Vudafieri-Saverino Partners new Milano Verticale UNA Esperienze hotel

Architectural studio Vudafieri-Saverino Partners was in charge of interior architecture and landscape architecture for "Milano Verticale | UNA Esperienze", a new four-star superior hotel the UNA Group will be opening in Milan in April 2021. Vudafieri-Saverino Partners’ project aims to go beyond the conventional idea of the hotel and provide people with a place for business meetings, a hub offering innovative services which is at the same time a renowned food & beverage destination thanks to the cuisine of chef Enrico Bartolini.

02-02-2021

Regeneration of Pirelli 39 awarded to Diller Scofidio + Renfro and Stefano Boeri Architetti

January 28 saw the presentation of the project by Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R) and Stefano Boeri Architetti, winners of the international architecture competition announced in November 2019 for regeneration of the real estate complex at Via Pirelli 39. The project is part of a plan for redevelopment of a vast area, practically a whole city district, which began with Gioia 22 and will be completed in the years to come with projects for the Pirelli 35 and Gioia 20 buildings.

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.