Tag Milan

06-05-2020

L22 Urban & Building by Lombardini22, New urban image for the Sarca 222 building

Lombardini22 completed an urban renewal project on an industrial building at Viale Sarca 222 in Milan, constructed in the sixties and renovated in the early 2000s. The building now has a new urban image designed by Lombardini22’s L22 Urban & Building division, consistent with the evolution of the district. The architects designed a grid of frames and glass elements giving Sarca 222 a dynamic rhythm of solids and hollows.

22-04-2020

Giuseppe Tortato Architetti creates the Interior Design project for Campus Certosa

The Giuseppe Tortato Architetti firm designed the restyling project of the Campus Certosa complex in Milan. The goal was to modernise the overall image of the campus, providing the external façades of the main building with a new look, to then proceed with the indoor spaces. For the interior design project, architects completely reorganised the students’ dorms, together with the reception, common and meeting areas, in order to ensure the greater well-being of those who spend time in these spaces.

20-04-2020

Piuarch’s Human Technopole Campus research building on the former Expo site in Milan

Piuarch, the architectural practice founded by Francesco Fresa, Germán Fuenmayor, Gino Garbellini and Monica Tricario, won the international design contest held by Fondazione Human Technopole and Arexpo for the former Expo site in Milan, where the Human Technopole Campus will be built: a new research facility, ten floors high with 35,000 square metres of floor space where cutting-edge laboratories and technologies will be available to scientists about three years from now.

17-04-2020

CMR project: De Castillia 23 Milano for Urban Up of the Unipol Group

With the technical assistance of Fiandre Architectural Surfaces, Progetto CMR has transformed a building in a historic neighbourhood in Milan into a building in the vanguard of sustainability. De Castillia 23, the new office complex designed by Urban Up, employs Active Clean Air & Antibacterial Ceramic™ technology for façade coverings.

10-04-2020

SLOWEAR18: mixing clothes and cocktails

Visual Display, the creative branding and interior design specialist founded by Giorgio di Bernardo is behind a versatile project that brings together two worlds for the sustainable use of one the rarest resources in our cities: space.

09-04-2020

Architecture and design films and events to follow via streaming

As we continue to live under lockdown in the hopes of stopping the spread of the Covid-19 virus, the amount of content available for viewing from home with today’s electronic devices has been growing, and a number of interesting proposals have emerged in the world of architecture and design, including documentary films, meetings via streaming, virtual tours and content for families with children.

30-03-2020

Matteo Cirenei's vision of Milan's districts a year ago

In Spring 2019, the architecture photographer, Matteo Cirenei explored eight districts in Milan through his camera lens. These zones are changing, experimental urban planning projects have also been put in place for some of them. An overview that connects streets, buildings, public places, different contrasting realities.

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.