The most amazing pavilions at EXPO 2015
Considering that to know in depth every detail of each pavilion takes days and days of visits and that a first visit can hardly exhaust every nuance and beauty of the countries around the world. What we propose below are our first impressions of the most amazing pavilions at EXPO 2015 Surely in the coming […]
Fondazione Prada Milano – Designed by OMA
Opened on May 9th, Fondazione Prada Milano is a great complex of buildings and public spaces that you have to visit if you pass around here. It is located in Largo Isarco, Milano and it is restored and designed by OMA. The project takes place on a former gin distillery, comprising warehouses, laboratories, brewing silos. The intervention, led […]
Ferrari Headquarters in Maranello – An Italian Excellence outrageously amazing
In the Ferrari Headquarters there are all together the most beautiful cars in the world, one of the most prestigious factories and a number of buildings designed by architects such as Renzo Piano and Massimiliano Fuksas … Hardly you are still able to contain your emotions and remain impassive. If we then add also the Formula 1, […]
Architectural Instagram feeds to follow
A personal collection of the best architectural instagram feeds. These account are the ones that most impressed me since I landed on instagram. Mostly their subjects are buildings and interiors, but often these amazing photographers are able to capture also stunning landscapes and urban scenes – each one with the same characteristic: they leave you […]
Requalification of the urban area “Darsena dei Navigli” of Milan
Several years have passed since the end of the international design competition launched by the Municipality of Milan. The final purpose was the redevelopment of the urban area “Darsena dei Navigli” of Milan. Fortunately, after years of labor, the winning project of Jean-Francois Bodin, Edoardo Guazzoni, Paolo Rizzatto and Sandro Rossi succeeded to be realized. The main actor […]
Inauguration days at EXPO 2015 | Our impression (Top)
I had many doubts, worries and anxieties also, but the opening days are definitely gone well. The first success of EXPO 2015. Media talk about 500,000 visitors in its first opening weekend, and although there are no official data, we can confirm that people were so many, while permitting the exhibition to preserve a pleasant sense […]
Cantina Antinori nel Chianti classico – Studio ARCHEA Associati
The project of Cantina Antinori was launched in 2003 by the need to create a business park that have to be also a landmark production for the region and for the company. The main goal was then to provide the Antinori family the Headquarters that represented the charm and tradition of their business. The project […]
Architectural Impressionism – A possible Architectural Theory
The space can not be defined by rules of representation, you can not frame it and conceive through plans, sections and elevations. When we live there are different vanishing points to our eyes, also, our eyes perceive what is around him not only what lies ahead. The reference point is always different, because even standing […]
Banca a Colle Val D’Elsa – Giovanni Michelucci
In an area located near the historical center of Colle Val D’Elsa is one of the most original and controversial architectural interventions of the Italian architecture during XX century. Giovanni Michelucci’s Banca a Colle Val D’Elsa. In 1973, Monte dei Paschi di Siena instructs the italian architect to design a new company headquarters in the urban area […]
Modernism in Urban Planning – Mechanization or humanity?
Modernism in Urban Planning opted for the mechanization of the city, the functionality, the order, the zoning – these are some of the main principles originated from the fourth CIAM of architecture, that will be then put on paper with the “Athens charter”. These principles are clear in Le Corbusier’s project “La ville radieuse”, dated […]
This is why Venice is the most beautiful city in the world – A series of 40 facades of Venice
This series of facades of Venice is a work I did last spring. It was born from my theoretical reflections on the city. But don’t worry, you can always go through the buildings without concerning about reflecting and thinking! I wanted to share this series of photographs because, like everyone, every time I go to […]
Aldo Rossi – Theoretical Architecture
“I do not invent, I remember” (Aldo Rossi) The origins of Aldo Rossi’s architecture dates back to the lectures that Ernesto Nathan Rogers used to do at the Politecnico di Milano, in the end of the 1950, in these circumstances it is possible to place Aldo Rossi inside the so called “Scuola di Milano”. The […]