The Duomo di Milano is an evolutionary feat of architecture and artifice. Though construction began in the fourteenth century under Antonio da Saluzzo, it was only very recently completed in 1965. French designers Nicolas de Bonaventure and Jean Mignot began …
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(Dgtmedia – Simone– wikipedia/creative commons license) Renzo Piano transformed the historic Lingotto building into a mixed-used complex of hotels, concert halls, cinema, shops, and businesses. Mattè Trucco designed the automobile factory 1923 with its distinctive racetrack on the rooftop. Modernist …
The Museo di arte moderna e contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto opened in 1987, with two galleries: Palazzo delle Albere in Trento and Casa-Museo Fortunato Depero in Rovereto. It was enlarged by architect Renato Rizzi, and a new …
(faungg’s photos– flickr/creative commons license) Michelangelo transformed the Frigidarium of the ancient Terme di Diocleziano (Baths of Diocletian) into the Basilica of St. Mary of the Angels and the Martyrs. Completed in 1566, it is located on the Piazza della …
Renzo Piano designed the Parco della Musica on the site of the 1960 Olympics in Rome, Italy. It includes three buildings which are called by Piano “music boxes”: Sala Santa Cecilia, Sala Sinopoli, and Sala Petrassi. It opened in December …
(hillman54– flickr/creative commons license) A shopping mall that is green? Shops that are within walking distance, that would be green. Or downtown with mass transit. But the sea of parking lots in this far-off mall seems counter-productive to me. Mark …
The Musei Vaticani opened in 1506 and soon received its current facilities designed by Luca Beltrami. LHoused here are works by such famous aritsts as Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael, and Caravaggio. Most famously, it has the Sistine Chapel originally …
The pope called Emporer Frederick II a man who “had little love for religion.” Many considered Frederick the anti-Christ. It is ironic then that Frederick “the hammer of the world” built what is today considered “a unique masterpiece” of Christian …
(archiwatch– flickr/creative commons license) As a social revitalization of an industrial part of town, this project by Massimiliano Fuksas forms two buildings with two goals: an office workspace and a city landmark. The office space becomes a stacked series of …
(Sport Communities– flickr/creative commons license) Italy’s Fiera di Milano by Massimilliano Fuksas is a simple concept: glass plastic wrap over public space. In the midst, the always popular glass and steel tornado crashes through to the floor in startling events. …