Tag Milan

27-01-2017

Area 17 INRES Carlo Ratti: Supermarket of the future Bicocca Milano

Area 17 and INRES have created a “Supermarket of the Future” using Carlo Ratti’s experimental technologies. The Coop store in Milan’s Bicocca Village, designed by Area 17, INRES and Carlo Ratti Associati, ushers in the change with Iris Ceramica porcelain floor and wall coverings.

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

22-12-2016

Milan and Rome two exhibitions made of Lego

Since the characteristic building system first came out in 1958, millions of children (and grown-ups too) have felt like architects upon opening a box of LEGO. The famous little bricks are the subject of two unmissable exhibitions in Italy at the moment.

16-12-2016

FAB One Night communication photography video architecture design

The last event in the 2016 One Night series, organised by the Floornature team in partnership with FAB Architectural Bureau Milano, took place on November 24. Here we quickly review all the One Night events held in Fiandre and Porcelaingres’s exhibition space in 2016, as covered in the pages of Floornature and Livegreenblog.

15-12-2016

Antonio Sant'Elia centennial, exhibitions in Como and Milan

Two exhibitions, “Antonio Sant’Elia (1888-1916). Il futuro delle città (The future of the city)” currently at Triennale di Milano and “Antonio Sant’Elia. All’origine del progetto (At the origin of design)” at Pinacoteca Civica di Como, along with a number of other events, look back on the life and career of architect Antonio Sant'Elia a hundred years after his death.

12-12-2016

SpazioFMG hosts the exhibition Reverse shot: Italian architects put a face to their names

An exhibition/event celebrating the first 10 years of SpazioFMGperl'Architettura, the exhibition gallery operated by Iris Ceramica and FMG Fabbrica Marmi e Graniti. REVERSE SHOT: Italian architects put a face to their names is a group exhibition focusing on the architects whose projects and buildings SpazioFMG has been representing for the past ten years.

09-12-2016

Eduardo Souto de Moura Piranesi Prix de Rome for Lifetime Achievement

On November 22, 2016 it was announced that the prestigious award for classic achievement in architecture, the 2017 Piranesi Prix de Rome for Lifetime Achievement, would be presented to 2011 Pritzker Prize winner Eduardo Souto de Moura on March 24, 2017.

06-12-2016

2016 Biennale 2016, the German pavilion is being restored

The 15th International Architecture exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia curated by Chilean architect and Pritzker prize-winner Alejandro Aravena titled “Reporting from the Front” has just finished, and work to restore the German pavilion has begun.