Repurposed as a boutique hotel, the conversion of Brucoli’s …
WEBMay 13, 2021 — A lighthouse has operated on the rocky peninsular at the harbor entrance since 1911. The lighthouse support building became the responsibility of the Italian Public Property Agency. Then, in 2015, a tender was issued for repurposing the complex as a tourism and cultural facility. The result is the boutique hotel that now occupies the site.
432 Park Avenue - The Plan
WEBSep 13, 2017 — By Rafael Viñoly Architects - 13 September 2017. Soaring 1,396 feet above Manhattan’s famed Park Avenue, between 56th and 57th Street, 432 Park Avenue is not only the tallest residential building in New York City but also the tallest residential tower in the Western Hemisphere. Designed by world-renowned architect Rafael Viñoly and co ...
Six Memos for The Next Millennium | The Plan
WEBJun 15, 2012 — Italo Calvino Six Memos for the next Millennium Vintage International, 1993 In 1985, Italo Calvino was about to deliver a series of lectures - the famed Six Memos for the Next Millennium - at Harvard University on the literary qualities needed in the 21st century, but he passed away first and they had to be published posthumously. Today, in 2012, Matteo Thun has revisited that text ...
Chesa Futura - The Plan
WEBJan 11, 2010 — The Chesa Futura apartment building in the Engadin Valley fuses state-of-the-art computer design tools and traditional, indigenous building techniques to create environmentally sensitive building. Although its form is novel, it utilises timber construction – one of the oldest, most environmentally benign and sustainable forms of building.
Designing hospitals: one of architecture’s biggest challenges - The …
WEBApr 22, 2021 — It is, of course, an extremely specialized sector, the importance of which everyone is now aware of in the wake of the pandemic. While architects are constantly balancing art and technique – the two faces of architecture – striking this balance in the design of healthcare facilities is one of architecture’s biggest challenges.
CX-Place - CX Milan | Bicocca Student & Explorer Place - The Plan
WEBCX-Place. Innovation and Design / Future. Just like other urban realities in Milan, Bicocca district is undergoing an intense regeneration thanks to the presence of local driving forces such as the University, foundations, as well as cultural and commercial areas. Ex Manifattura is in the running to become the next focus point in the district ...
THE CREATION OF THE ITALIAN PAVILION AT EXPO DUBAI 2020
WEBOct 5, 2021 — This was how Carlo Ratti described the Italian Pavilion at Expo Dubai 2020, created in collaboration with Italo Rota Building Office, F&M Ingegneria, and Matteo Gatto. The pavilion, which was awarded the best Commercial Project of the Year at the prestigious Construction Innovation Awards in the United Arab Emirates, will be open until March 31 ...
The Greenary - The Plan
WEBApr 4, 2022 — The very name - Greenary - is a symbiotic blending of “green” and “granary” and the villa itself was created inside an old farmhouse that literally hugs a 60-year old, 10 m-high Port Jackson fig (Ficus australis). As the founder of CRA highlighted, the design focuses on the intersection between the natural and artificial worlds ...
The Fincantieri factory in Porto Marghera: the new Naval ... - The …
WEBPorto Marghera is the Venice skyline and the industrial landscape of Mestre. The beauty of the sea is in the colors and in the light its reflects, light that becomes colors in motion. Sequences of blues, light blues, greens and grays. These colors, used in an extremely sober way, recall what only a little later will become the horizon of Venice ...
Revaluing brutalist architecture | The Plan
WEBMay 4, 2021 — Brutalist architecture of the 1960s and 1970s has been enjoying a renaissance of attention over the past decade or so, featured in a spate of surveys, exhibitions, books and social media. Celebrating its photogenic Instagramability, unpacking (or rehashing) its theoretical origins, and warning of …