February 5

Bari Airport Nursery school and recreation center

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(Materials courtesy of Laboratorio Permanente)

The Bari Airport Nursery school is shaped as a little child-scale world, a new landmark for the airport area and Bari itself. Furthermore, the nursery project is equipped with an advanced technology system which allows it to be energy-autonomous.
The project’s concept was inspired by the intrinsic scale contrast between a nursery and an international airport: an intimate space confronting with a monumental space of exchange. Read more

January 12

Darsena Milano – Reclaiming public space in Milan’s former harbor

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#01. DARSENA_LA NUOVA MILANO
Viola Varotto, Maria Pina Usai, Massimo Pisati, Arianna Forcella, Margherita Fenati, Giuseppe Fanizza

Last week we talked to you about MilanoCittàAperta, a photography experiment to reclaim the city of Milan from a different point of view. Today we present you another project taking place in the Italian city.

DarsenaMilano is a series of workshops, aimed at finding new ways of making the best of a public space, the Darsena, which has been rather left on its own by the public administration in recent times.

For those of you who don’t know, the Darsena was built as Milan’s inner harbor, and it was once a busy commercial node before its function was limited to irrigation. The area, being the meeting point of the city’s canals, is also a vibrant and lively public space. As you can see from the videos, the area is now the victim of spontaneous vegetation and has not yet taken a new form. Read more

December 3

Bar Tomate by Sandra Tarruella Interioristas

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(All materials courtesy of Sandra Tarruella Interioristas, photos © Olga Planas)

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The new Bar Tomate is the first restaurant of the Tragaluz Group in Madrid, designed by Sandra Tarruella Interioristas.  After 17 years as part of Tarruella & López, the opening of Bar Tomate marks the beginning of Sandra Tarruella’s solo career as team leader of her own studio.

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The project is about the renovation of an already existing restaurant, with a collage of materials and textures contributing to a recovered, informal, dynamic, and natural image. Read more

October 16

LA CRAQUELURE by mag.MA architetture

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View from the main road serving the valley

1- View from the houses

View from the houses

The renovation of Matteotti Square in Badalucco we post today was designed by studio mag.MA architetture. What we particularly appreciated of this intervention, together with the low budget, is the contemporaneity of the sober irruption in the suburbs, along with the successful contrast between the chosen materials and the historical Ligurian context. Read more

October 9

Cortenuova sports centre extension and renovation – Competition and first phase plot

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(All materials courtesy of PBEB Architetti, photos © Paolo Belloni and Francesca Perani)

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“Today we can theorize
an Architecture of Territory concept
instead of a Territory of Architecture”
Jacques Gubler

Premise
Architecture and Territory; anthropologized countryside and city sprawl limits

The Bergamo plain is a transit area between hills and plain but it’s also a territory where infrastructures and irrigation canals meet and mark the territory.
The geographical location is well defined, it’s north-south on the (Orobie) mountains’side and opposite on the cultivated plain fields. The country furrows enter the city. Read more

September 30

Medellín Botanic Garden and Café del Bosque
by Ana Elvira Velez V. & Lorenzo Castro J.

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(Text and photos by Ana Elvira Velez V. & Lorenzo Castro J.)

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By converting its high border walls in a perimetral park, where the visitor can enjoy the Botanical Garden without entering it, we reclaimed the urban area surrounding it.
For this purpose the walls have been replaced by a carefully-designed skin-fencing allowing a 100% visibility inside the park and also, thanks to the geometry of the module that adapts to the different topological conditions. This new fencing thus contributes to the configuration and projection of the Garden’s image towards the city. Read more

September 21

Return – CASA con PADIGLIONE
renovation by Beniamino Servino

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(Text by Angelica Di Virgilio)

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Obession is a non-stop return. Images return. Ideas. Gestures.
It’s the unconscious movement of thought that, unable to satisfy itself, builds up and destroys its Penelope’s web. It’s that longing for perfection never achieved because simply unattainable.
It’s a trap. The trap that makes our mind act in search of an undesirable freedom. It’s the Architect’s trap. The intrinsic condition of designing itself.
The endless return of the hand which turns its movements into signs. Into the sign.
That sole trace which cannot change, or simply doesn’t want to, despite its always unlike being.
This is what has happened to architect Beniamino Servino who, better than anyone else, embodies the artist’s obsession cage. Architect Servino has hands dirty with colour and ink. He draws his endless return on worn-out sheets, on the pages of a reliquary-like exercise book. His return to the project is carried by disturbingly maternal night birds which fly among fancied architectures and urban arcades.

It’s the signature of the project designer who thinks himself over, disguises in a thousand different objects, in a thousand drawings, always the same. But designing presupposes a future scenery and a real return to the project is almost impossible. Almost. Because sometimes it happens.
Sometimes while longing for something, a chance appears. A glimmer. The chance to stop and go back.

Beniamino thinks over and over the pennata, that primeval shelter which dots the Caserta countryside. His endless pennata declensions aim at becoming an architectural model.

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September 8

Mediterranea Clinic Renovation in Naples by Gambardellarchitetti

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In 2007 Mediterranea, the most important private clinic in Campania, put architect Cherubino Gambardella in charge of the hospital’s renovation, to make it better fit with contemporary standards and give it a residence appeal. Read more

August 17

Anglesea House by Andrew Maynard Architects

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all images @ Andrew Maynard Architects

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More frequently holiday homes are becoming little more than transplanted suburban ugliness; the great Australian tradition of the ‘shack’ is in danger of being superseded by bloated mansions with four bathrooms and all the trappings of modern life.
With this project we set out to celebrate the holiday shack without adopting shack typology and as such we have kept close to the original building’s footprint to avoid taking over the rugged coastal block. Read more

August 11

The 12xMilano series
FLOWER TOWER, by Luca Poncellini + Michele Calzavara

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(Here’s the seventh video from 12xMilano, the exhibition currently on show at Milan’s Urban Center. Today we’re presenting you the project FLOWER TOWER by Luca Poncellini and Michele Calzavara)

PARADOX
It’s paradoxical: while dozens of brand new high-rise buildings are under construction in Milano these days, one of the tallest towers of the city is left empty and abandoned. The GALFA Tower: 30 floors, 110 metres, designed by Melchiorre Bega in 1959 and located two blocks away from Central Station, between GALvani st. and FAra st. (after which it was named). Can a barely 50 year-old building be already completely obsolete? Out of order like a broken toy, to be thrown away in the rubbish bin? Is there a chance for its functional refurbishment? Read more

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