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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.

26-03-2020

Lombardini22 and DEGW design NOW, Oliver Wyman’s new offices in Milan

DEGW, a brand of the Lombardini22 architecture and design Group, designed the project for global consulting firm Oliver Wyman's new offices in Milan. The new spaces offer an innovative work model called desk sharing, which leaves the usual fixed desk layout behind, allowing employees the flexibility of choosing a different workspace everyday.

23-03-2020

All the events in SpazioFMG’s The Architects Series now available via streaming

The first 12 events in The Architects Series, the event format created by The Plan magazine for SpazioFMGperl'Architettura, the gallery and showroom of Iris Ceramica and FMG Fabbrica Marmi e Graniti, top brands in the Iris Ceramica Group, are now available online. Each episode is a double event featuring a documentary film offering a behind-the-scenes look at the architectural practice and interviews conducted at SpazioFMG per l'Architettura during meetings with the architects.

20-03-2020

Farewell to architect Vittorio Gregotti

In this difficult time under lockdown, Italy says farewell to one of its most important twentieth-century architects and urban planners, Vittorio Gregotti, who passed away on March 15 in Milan. Milan’s Bicocca district and Palermo’s ZEN are among his best-known works, but Gregotti also played an important role as a teacher and above all a promoter of architecture through articles in architecture magazines, above all Casabella, of which he was editor-in-chief for about 15 years.

11-03-2020

Piuarch designs an innovative sneakers store in Milan

Architecture firm Piuarch was chosen by the famous Italian sneaker brand P448 to design its first store in Milan. The new store, recently inaugurated in Milan, is an innovative and unconventional space, a project designed with great attention to details and to quality materials.

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.