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10-06-2021

Città Sospese - Siti Italiani UNESCO nei giorni del lockdown Exhibition

In the long months of spring 2020, while millions of people were confined to their homes complying with the restrictions imposed by authorities to ensure the containment of the Covid-19 pandemic, photographers from the Italian Ministry of Culture travelled to 11 Italian cities recognised as UNESCO heritage sites, to capture a valuable visual testimony of this unprecedented historical moment experienced by Italy's cities of art, with the typical bustling streets devoid of tourists and locals.

04-06-2021

Foster + Partners designs Apple Store in Via del Corso in Rome

On May 27 the new Apple store located in Via del Corso in Rome opened its doors. The project designed by the Foster + Partners architectural firm, in collaboration with the Apple Creative Team, has brought Palazzo Marignoli back to life, a historic building originally constructed in 1873 by architect Salvatore Bianchi and later subjected to an extensive renovation by architect Giulio Podesti.

07-04-2021

Studiotamat’s Tre de tutto: a trendy restaurant in Rome

"Tre de tutto" is a trendy new restaurant designed by architects Tommaso Amato, Matteo Soddu and Valentina Paiola of STUDIOTAMAT in Rome’s Garbatella district. The architects worked on the premises of a historic local bakery in a piazza immortalised in a scene in Nanni Moretti’s film "Caro Diario" (“Dear Diary”). The architects use a few carefully chosen key elements to create a trendy restaurant that does not deny but celebrates its ties with Roman traditions and with the neighbourhood.

27-01-2021

“La Festa dell’Architetto” and school architecture as a project for the future

The 2020 edition of the "Festa dell’Architetto", postponed due to the pandemic, takes place with live streaming January 27 through 29, 2021. Organised by Italy’s National Council of Architects, Planners, Landscape Architects and Conservationists (Consiglio Nazionale degli Architetti, Pianificatori, Paesaggisti e Conservatori or CNAPPC) and the country’s network of provincial orders of architects, the event promotes the culture of design and underlines architecture’s social function. The CNAPPC’s virtual museum will be inaugurated during the event, and the awards for “Architetto italiano” (Italian Architect), “ Giovane Talento dell'Architettura Italiana” (Young Talent in Italian Architecture) and a Special Prize entitled “(Ri)progettare la scuola con le nuove generazioni post Covid-19 ” ((Re)designing the school with the new post Covid-19 generations) will be awarded.

07-01-2021

DEGW by Lombardini22 designs the new EY office in Rome

The new Rome offices of EY, a company specialising in business consulting services, are designed by DEGW, a Lombardini22 brand, in a project based on the image of a beehive, suggesting the company’s structured organisation and hardworking ethic while reflecting EY’s brand identity through the corporate colours yellow and black.

19-10-2020

Isaac Julien pays tribute to Lina Bo Bardi – Un meraviglioso groviglio at Maxxi in Rome

"Lina Bo Bardi – Un meraviglioso groviglio" is a tribute to the Italo-Brazilian architect by British artist and filmmaker Isaac Julien. The film installation and photo series presented in the exhibition, curated by Luigia Lonardelli, are on view until 17 January 2021 at MAXXI, the National Museum of XXI Century Arts in Rome.

01-10-2020

AT HOME 20.20 Exhibition - Projects for contemporary living at the MAXXI Museum in Rome

The "AT HOME 20.20" exhibition, on at the MAXXI Museum in Rome until November 1, opened its doors to the public with a new focus that takes into account the recent pandemic experience and the manner in which the latter has changed the way we experience domestic spaces. The Museum also extended this relevant reflection on the post COVID-19 home to its first digital Casa Mondo exhibition, set up and curated by the Formafantasma studio and created exclusively for Instagram.

15-09-2020

Architecture Festival in Italy: the winning events

The Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity and Urban Regeneration of Italy’s Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism has supported an initiative aimed at developing awareness of the importance of contemporary architecture among the public and promoting quality architecture to aid the country’s civil, social and economic progress: the "Architecture Festival" competition saw the selection of seven winning projects for seven events held in the month of September 2020.