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A 12th-century monastery in Italy’s Umbria region has become a boutique hotel in the hands of Florence studio Archiloop, which aimed to retain the site’s “rustic simplicity” during its renovation.

Vocabolo Moscatelli sits in the countryside near the hamlet of Calzolaro, close to the Tuscan border, on a remote estate surrounded by woodland.

The property was discovered by chef concierge Frederik Kubierschky and his partner Catharina Lütjens, who set about restoring the various 800-year-old stone buildings with the help of architect Jacopo Venerosi Pesciolini of Archiloop.

Aiming to retain the historic charm and as much of the original features as possible, the team kept the original wooden floors, exposed terracotta brickwork and ceiling beams, alongside brass, iron and stone details.

Stairs leading up to Vocabolo Moscatelli hotel in converted monastery — The original brick and stone buildings were restored by Archiloop

They worked with local craftspeople on the restoration of these elements and incorporated new pieces by artists and designers from across the region, too.

“Vocabolo Moscatelli brings together the stone mason, blacksmith and woodworker with the artisan makers: ceramicists, tile makers and painters, creating a boutique style canvas that plays homage to the past while bringing in the design references of the now,” said the hotel team.

Seating area with fireplace inside Hotel Vocabolo Moscatelli in Umbria by Archiloop — Timber ceiling beams are left exposed throughout the hotel

New additions to the site include a travertine swimming pool, coloured to match the surrounding woodland and Mediterranean landscaping by Fabiano Crociani.

“Threaded smoothly together, the effect is a template of rustic simplicity with heart,” the team said.

Bedroom with a red-framed, four-posted bed — Each of the property’s 12 guest suites is unique and includes a custom bed frame

Vocabolo Moscatelli offers 12 spacious guest suites: eight in the main building and four more dotted around the landscaped grounds, all with a “monastic chic” style.

Each includes a unique colour palette and collection of design pieces, like a sculptural black two-person bathtub on one of the terraces and the various handmade beds.

The Bridal Suite includes a round canopy bed and a private garden, while the Spa Suite has its own sauna and jacuzzi.

Bathtub on a terrace — Some of the suites have sculptural al fresco bathtubs

Furniture and products were sourced from Italian brands, such as outdoor furniture by Paola Lenti and lighting from Davide Groppi and Flos.

Handmade glazed tiles by local Umbrian company Cotto Etrusco adorn the bathrooms, contrasting the rough stonework of the building’s thick walls.

Vocabolo Moscatelli is part of hotel group The Aficionados, which brings together 90 design-led properties across Europe.

Swimming pool of Vocabolo Moscatelli by Archiloop — New additions to the estate include a travertine swimming pool

Many historic buildings across Umbria have been converted into guest accommodations, from remote holiday homes like the Torre di Moravola watchtower to sprawling rural estates like Castello di Reschio.

Several monasteries in Italy have also found new life as hotels, including the Monastero Arx Vivendi near Lake Garda.

The photography is by Fabio Semeraro.

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Interior Design

Modernist architecture informs Bottega Veneta store in historic galleria

By Zarkon Group,07/02/2024

Fashion house Bottega Veneta has opened a boutique designed by its creative director Matthieu Blazy inside the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II shopping arcade in Milan.

Bottega Veneta‘s two-storey store is distinguished by three primary materials: glass, Italian walnut and green Verde Saint Denis marble.

This trifecta is applied in strict grids to evoke Italian modernism and provide an organising principle in the various rooms.

“There are different experiences of space in the store,” said Blazy. “I wanted to express the idea of a domestic interior referring to Italian modernist architecture that contrasts with the aesthetic of a spaceship and to capture the intimacy and the imagination of getting dressed.”

Fashion store with glass-block walls and ceiling, and green marble flooring — Grids are used throughout the store to organise materials

From the galleria, shoppers are greeted by a dramatic spiral staircase made entirely from Italian walnut – a material used throughout the interior as panelling, modular shelving and furniture.

Green marble is laid in squares across the floors, separated by strips of walnut and occasionally swapped for larger patches of dark green wool carpet.

Room with squares of glass blocks across the walls and ceiling — Glass blocks are integrated into the walls and ceilings

Square glass blocks are similarly arranged into grids across walls and ceilings, illuminated from behind to produce a soft warm glow throughout the store.

Green leather chairs and benches are accompanied by custom rounded wood tables and stools to form lounge areas.

“Throughout the space, soft textures are found in leather seating and wool carpets, while modular shelving units build a sense of discovery and play,” Bottega Veneta said.

Fitting room lined in walnut with a green leather niche and wool carpet — The fitting rooms feature leather niches that provide a place to sit

Fitting rooms are fully lined in walnut, except for leather-wrapped niches that provide a small seat, giant mirrors with built-in lighting and more green carpet.

Sculptural polished metal elements form the door pulls and clothes hooks, their smooth surfaces contrasting with the more textured golden planters and entrance handles.

On the upper level, recesses formed by the Galleria’s arched windows provide nooks for seating and plants, as places to look out onto the highly decorative arcade.

Designed in 1861 by architect Giuseppe Mengoni, the neo-classical Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II is one of Milan’s most desirable shopping destinations.

Close-up of a polished metal sculptures that forms a door pull — Polished metal sculptures form door pulls and clothing hooks in the fitting rooms

The four-storey, glass-vaulted double arcade is located in the city centre, close to other landmarks like the Duomo and the Teatro alla Scala.

The new Bottega store is the latest to open under Blazy since he took the reigns of the luxury brand in 2021, following locations on London’s Sloane Street and the Avenue Montaigne in Paris.

Exterior of the Bottega Veneta store in Milan's Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II — The new store is located in the historic Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II shopping arcade

For the brand’s Spring Summer 2023 runway show, Bottega Veneta collaborated with Italian designer Gaetano Pesce, who envisioned a colourful resin-covered floor and 400 bespoke cotton-and-resin chairs for the set.

Pesce later went on to create a pair of handbags for the brand, which were designed to suggest different bucolic landscapes.

The photography is courtesy of Bottega Veneta.

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Interior Design

Monolithic green marble carves apartment interior in Milan by AIM Studio

By Zarkon Group,05/01/2024

Italian studio AIM has designed a compact, multi-level apartment interior in Milan organised around a floor-to-ceiling Verde Alpi marble partition.

Created in collaboration with local marble artisans Bianco67, AIM Studio used the wall to divide the various functions of Green Nest, aiming to create an elegant backdrop for a dynamic domestic experience.

“The design challenge [for] Green Nest was to combine the compact size of the dwelling with the desire to create inviting, functional and representative spaces pleasant to live in at all times of the day,” AIM Studio told Dezeen.

“We were looking for a single gesture to characterise the apartment [and were] inspired by the idea of a majestic wall [running] through the heart of the house,” the studio continued. “This massive element, both because of its solid presence and its intrinsic beauty, is the focal point on which the entire design revolves.”

Full height glass divider in Green Nest Apartment by AIM Studio in Milan — The fluid living spaces can be divided by an operable ribbed glass door

The marble partition was constructed as a permeable threshold between the apartment’s lower level living spaces and a staircase leading to the habitable roof terrace above.

Designed as a single, fluid area, the main living room and bedroom can be separated by full-height ribbed glass doors.

Green Nest Apartment by AIM Studio in Milan — The studio used the marble wall system to host functional storage and compartment spaces

AIM Studio sought to meet the practical requirements of small-footprint living by using the Alpi marble to conceal a series of deep storage compartments.

“More than a monolith, the volume is an inhabited wall whose thickness is continuously perforated, crossed and interrupted to host the different functions of living,” AIM Studio said.

“[It] was designed as a precious shell but [leaves] nothing to chance in terms of containment and management of the space. Every compartment, every opening, has been designed [for utility].”

Behind the marble partition, the staircase to the rooftop terrace was completed with a central lightwell to draw natural light into the space below.

The studio also integrated large windows into the main living area to encourage an interplay of light on the reflective marble surface and to evoke a chiaroscuro-like effect.

Suspended kitchen system inside Green Nest Apartment by AIM Studio in Milan — The compact kitchen was formed by suspended travertine joinery

Tucked into a corner of the living room, the kitchen was demarcated by suspended travertine joinery and an embossed mirror feature wall.

Neutral-toned fixtures and restrained furniture pieces were selected to balance the apartment’s modern aesthetic and emphasise the drama of the green marble.

“We conceived this project as a search for authenticity; a minimal but at the same time welcoming and functional design created through natural, precious [and] timeless materials.”

“We hope that this search for authenticity will be perceived by those who will inhabit these spaces and that it will translate into family atmospheres and elegant, but convivial, environments.”

Founded in 2012 by Claudio Tognacca in Milan, AIM Studio has projects spanning across architecture, interior design and product development both in Italy and internationally.

Other recently completed projects in Italy include Antonino Cardillo’s design for “a miniature palazzo” residence near Lake Garda and Humbert & Poyet’s interior conversion of a 16th-century Milanese chapel into a Beefbar restaurant.

The photography is by Simone Bossi

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Architecture

Antonino Cardillo designs Elogio del Grigio house as “miniature palazzo”

By Zarkon Group,18/12/2023

Italian architect Antonino Cardillo has completed a house near Lake Garda featuring steep ceilings, arched doorways and a palette of textured plaster and marble.

Located in Castiglione delle Stiviere, in Italy’s Lombardy region, the two-storey residence was designed by Cardillo in the spirit of “a miniature palazzo”.

Called Elogio del Grigio, which means “praise of grey”, the house combines classic proportions with a minimalist design aesthetic.

The building echoes the form of its red-walled neighbour, a typical northern Italian villa, but also incorporates references to traditional architecture from different parts of the Mediterranean.

Marble wall in Elogio del Grigio house by Antonino Cardillo — This room features marble walls and textured plaster ceilings

The layout centres around a grand first-floor living room described as “the soul of this house”.

Cardillo drew on “the rectangular cuspidate rooms of Marrakech” and “window panes somewhere between Venetian windows and the marble hammams of Istanbul” for the design.

Sloping ceiling in Elogio del Grigio house by Antonino Cardillo — Full-height glass doors lead out to roof terraces

“The project seeks to recognise and integrate some of the contributions of civilisations which are largely forgotten in Western architecture,” he told Dezeen.

“It accepts Hegel’s invitation to learn to see the endless greys of realities,” he added, referencing the words of a 19th-century German philosopher.

Exterior of Elogio del Grigio house by Antonino Cardillo — The building’s exterior is relatively modest

Elogio del Grigio is home to a couple and their young daughter.

After visiting Cardillo’s House of Dust, a Rome apartment featuring deep wall recesses and textured ceilings, the couple asked the architect to design them a family home.

The brief called for generous living and dining spaces on two levels, three bedrooms, two bathrooms, a roof terrace and a garage with space for two cars.

The building’s exterior is relatively modest, with a cool grey render finish and door shutters painted in a slightly brighter green-toned grey.

Marble bathroom in Elogio del Grigio house by Antonino Cardillo — The first-floor bathroom features a porthole window

Inside, the materials palette becomes more luxurious.

Slabs of Carrara marble cover the walls and floors in the first-floor living room and bathroom, with a book-matching technique to create subtle repetition within the surface patterns.

The steeply sloping ceilings are coated with a plaster mix that includes volcanic ash, which was applied with a hand trowel to create the lumpy texture.

Hallway in Elogio del Grigio house by Antonino Cardillo — Arched doorways can be found throughout the house

The living room also features a custom-made granite table based on the one in House of Dust, created thanks to the support of stone contractor and previous collaborator, Daniele Ghirardi.

“Daniele had already supported my research by funding an exhibition of my sculptures at the Soane Museum in London a few years ago,” Cardillo said.

Staircase in Elogio del Grigio house by Antonino Cardillo — Granite provides flooring on the ground floor

Bedrooms are also located on the first floor, which is wrapped on three sides by terraces, while the lower level houses an office, the garage and the second kitchen and living space.

Other projects by Cardillo include a textured all-green gallery interior and a Sicilian grotto.

The photography is by Antonino Cardillo.

Project credits:

Architecture: Antonino Cardillo
Construction management: Giampaolo Piva
Quantity surveying: Massimo Maggi
Construction: Andrea Pennati, Giovanni Lancini, Giovanni Locatelli
Masonry: Stefano Camozzi, Marco Fontana, Osmanaj Jeton, Giuseppe Lancini, Carmelo Piterolo, Ramqaj Vehbi
Marbles and granites: Ghirardi
Windows: Wolf Fenster
Air system: Bonometti Graziano, Giacomo Averoldi

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Interior Design

Moschino store in Millan designed to reference the “history of ancient Italy”

By Zarkon Group,31/03/2023

Italian studio Andrea Tognon Architecture has collaborated with former Moschino creative director Jeremy Scott to renovate the brand’s flagship store in Milan.

Located on Via della Spiga, one of Milan’s famed shopping streets, the store sits within the 18th-century Palazzo Perusati, which was recently transformed by real estate company Hines into a luxury retail development.

The store was designed by Andrea Tognon Architecture in collaboration with Scott who aimed to recreate and allude to the history of ancient Italy through a minimalist yet ornamental interior scheme.

“I was inspired by the rich history of ancient Italy and the beauty and decadent opulence of its design,” said Scott.

“Sometimes we start to design from memories, sometimes from form, materials and colours,” added Andrea Tognon Architecture founder Andrea Tognon.

“For this project, I started only from words.”

Photo of the interior of the Moschino Milan store — It is located within a recently renovated retail hub

The Milan flagship spans two floors and covers 380 square metres.

Its ground floor is dedicated to the brand’s women’s ready-to-wear collections and accessories, while its first floor is dedicated to its men’s and kid’s collections.

Photo of the Moschino store — Oversized columns and capitals fill the store

Throughout the interior, Andrea Tognon Architecture used rich materials that speak to Moschino’s baroque flair, which was also highlighted through decorative and oversized architectural elements.

A checkered floor constructed from Botticino marble and green stone, sourced from Brazil, covers the ground floor retail area while the above floors were clad in yellow Siena marble.

A vast stone spiral staircase connects the two floors of retail space and forms a continuation of the oversized checkered floor – with the tread and rise of each step similarly clad in green stone and marble.

Patinated brass lighting stretches rhythmically in horizontal rows across the ceiling of the store. Curving tubular display rails line the boundaries of the interior and were constructed in the same brass finish.

Pale pink spiral staircase — Marble and stone cover the floors

Pops of colour were introduced to the interior through bright yellow lacquered wood shelving that flank the walls of the store and follow its curving profile.

Oversized columns and capitals were placed throughout the interior and function as furniture and display areas for the brand’s products and accessories.

Interior photo of the Milan store — It was designed to reference the ancient history of Italy

Also scattered throughout the store are additional custom furniture pieces that were created by Scott in homage to Moschino’s founder Franco Moschino.

These tables combine two tables which were spliced in the middle, joined together and decorated with marble tops and gold leaf ornamentation.

Photo of shelving at the store — Pops of colours were incorporated throughout the store

Last week news broke that Jeremy Scott was leaving Moschino after a decade-long tenure at the Milanese fashion house. In 2020, Scott replaced models at his Spring Summer 2021 show with puppets that wore the brand’s womenswear collection.

Elsewhere in Milan, London design studios Brinkworth and The Wilson Brothers created a caravan-shaped artist studio for Marni’s flagship store in the Italian city.

The photography is by Adriano Mura.

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Architecture

30 Best Architecture Firms in Italy

By Zarkon Group,22/01/2023

Virtuoso chefs and leaders of culture, the Italians have long been revered for their passion and creative excellence that extends to their built environment. As a relatively recently unified nation, there is a myriad of architecture — both historical and contemporary — waiting to be explored and differing largely from region to region. Whether touring the ancient aqueducts and temples in Rome, marveling over the Renaissance feats in Florence, or discovering the Byzantine and Islamic influence in Sicily, the country certainly requires multiple visits just to scratch the surface of architectural riches. And for the admirers of pious architecture, Italy has its fair share of basilicas and churches that date back to the reign of Constantine the Great.

In the contemporary context, the Italian built environment took on a new identity after the fall of Fascism. Eager to break from Fascist architecture, the nation’s architects began to redefine modernist architecture void of Rationalism. Whether it be a winery built inside a Sasso (home dug inside a rock formation), a total revitalization of a napolitan subway station, or a monolithic church nestled in the Calabrian mountains, marveling over Italian’s contemporary landscape is almost as easy as it is savoring its delicious cuisine. Just like Brunelleschi, the Italian architects of today uphold the title of capomaestri (master builders) and continue to erect a noteworthy built environment that influences global architectural trends.

With so many architecture firms to choose from, it’s challenging for clients to identify the industry leaders that will be an ideal fit for their project needs. Fortunately, Architizer is able to provide guidance on the top design firms in Italy based on more than a decade of data and industry knowledge.

How are these architecture firms ranked?

The following ranking has been created according to key statistics that demonstrate each firm’s level of architectural excellence. The following metrics have been accumulated to establish each architecture firm’s ranking in order of priority:

The number of A+Awards won (2013 to 2023)
The number of A+Awards finalists (2013 to 2023)
The number of projects selected as “Project of the Day” (2009 to 2023)
The number of projects selected as “Featured Project” (2009 to 2023)
The number of projects uploaded to Architizer (2009 to 2023)

Each of these metrics is explained in more detail at the foot of this article. This ranking list will be updated annually, taking into account new achievements of Italy architecture firms throughout the year.

Without further ado, here are the 30 best architecture firms in Italy:

30. Pedevilla Architects

Pedevilla Architects was founded in 2005 by brothers Alexander and Armin Pedevilla. Among the main tasks of the office are challenging architectural projects in private and public spheres as well as creative interior designs and innovative design concepts. The objective of the layout is always to implement the desires and needs of the people and to incorporate these with a clear architectural stylistic vocabulary.

Some of Pedevilla Architects’s most prominent projects include:

House at Mill Creek, Sand in Taufers, Italy
Alpine Residence & Chalet La Pedevilla, Province of Bolzano – South Tyrol, Italy
Elementary School Rodeneck, Province of Bolzano – South Tyrol, Italy
Fire Station Vierschach, Innichen, Italy
Fire Station Sand in Taufers, Sand in Taufers, Italy

The following statistics helped Pedevilla Architects achieve 30th place in the 30 Best Architecture Firms in Italy:

Featured Projects	4
Total Projects	6

29. deamicisarchitetti

deamicisarchitetti is an Italian firm practicing architecture, urbanism and design. From the year 2005 — when deamicisarchitetti was founded — our design approach has centred on making good use of our typically Italian ability to interpret, cross-pollinate and blend together ideas and lexicons from a variety of places, times and cultural contexts. Our aim is to realize projects that preserve a sense of time while providing new and original results in terms of performance and meaning: a synthesis of memory and the contemporary.

Fueled by curiosity, research and the constant study of the world around us, we pay particular attention to connections and to the value of the space between “things”, always aiming to increase the usability, diversity and the beauty of places, be they transport nodes or destinations.

Some of deamicisarchitetti’s most prominent projects include:

Suburbian Villa, Pavia, Italy
Digital Entity workspace, Milan, Italy
Alpine foothills house, Borgiallo, Italy
Borgo Merlassino, Novi Ligure, Italy
House on the roof, Milan, Italy

The following statistics helped deamicisarchitetti achieve 29th place in the 30 Best Architecture Firms in Italy:

Featured Projects	4
Total Projects	7

28. EXiT architetti associati

EXiT architetti associati is an architecture studio based in Treviso. It focuses on architectural and urban design as well as interior and landscape design and draws upon the collective professional experiences of its founders in Italy, Spain and Portugal. In 2009 and 2011 EXIT was nominated one of the best emerging architecture firms in Italy by Giarch. In 2010 projects realized by the studio were displayed in the Italian Pavillion at the Shanghai EXPO 2010. The projects were on display in the “Ventisettetrentasette” exhibition dedicated to emerging Italian architecture.

Some of EXiT architetti associati’s most prominent projects include:

Z House, Mogliano Veneto, Italy
Renovation of an alpine barn, Selva di Cadore, Italy
Alpine barn DZ, Selva di Cadore, Italy
D House, Treviso, Italy
FVL – Reclaimed natural wood, Lozzo di Cadore, Italy

The following statistics helped EXiT architetti associati achieve 28th place in the 30 Best Architecture Firms in Italy:

Featured Projects	4
Total Projects	17

27. AMDL Circle | Michele De Lucchi

The philosophy adopted by Michele De Lucchi’s office seeks to maintain a steady interaction between architectural thinking, industrial design and global communication. This transverse approach is backed by Michele De Lucchi’s own international experience acquired in more than forty years’ work. Founded in the early 1980s, the office has kept its original multicultural and multidisciplinary origins.

Producing architecture and design for Italian and foreign institutes, public and private organisations, businesses and individuals, it carries out in-depth surveys of matters relating to contemporary society, especially the role of industry and crafts, technology and nature. Formed by architects and designers from all over the world, the office shows a predilection for teamwork.

Some of AMDL Circle | Michele De Lucchi’s most prominent projects include:

EARTH STATIONS MANY HANDS
ST. JAKOB’S CHAPEL, Bernbeuren, Germany
“La Pista di Milano” Racetrack, Arese, Italy
Residenze Litta, Corso Magenta, Milano, Italy
PAVILION ZERO, EXPO MILANO 2015, Milan, Italy

The following statistics helped AMDL Circle | Michele De Lucchi achieve 27th place in the 30 Best Architecture Firms in Italy:

A+Awards Finalist	1
Featured Projects	4
Total Projects	13

26. MASK Architects

MASK Architects is a young international architecture and design firm established in Sardinia, Italy and Istanbul, Turkey by Turkish Architect and Architectural Designer Öznur Pınar Çer & Italian Luxury Industrial Designer Danilo Petta in the fields of priority public and cultural projects, workspaces, mixed-use, luxury industrial design, medical design equipment, and health, education, living space, yacht and watch design as well as production and master planning sectors across the world. Our design vision is to combine Science, Architecture, and Technology in the Parametric and Kinetic design field.

We have been improving ourselves in the design are Parametric Design, Robotic Fabrication and Construction, Mathematics, Art, Interactivity Design, Interactive and Kinetic Art Installations, Sustainability, Climate Changes, Interactive Movements, Human Physiology, Public Design Elements, Pavilion Structures and Engineered Technologies in Advanced Technology. Our design philosophy is based on creating a ‘Magnetic Design Field Curve’ in the design, where they believe users as a “Magnetic Force” in the space getting attracted to something equally magnetic within the space.

Some of MASK Architects’s most prominent projects include:

“The artificial breathing palm modular structure system”, ” Oasys + System”, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Seoul Art and Photographic Museum, Seoul, South Korea
“Villa G01” New Generation Luxury Villa, Porto Rotondo, Italy
The Flower Clouds I Zhengzhou Metro Line-7 Stations, China
Leaf and Bean Coffee Co Pavilion, Heinrich-Kraft-Park, Frankfurt am Main Ost, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

The following statistics helped MASK Architects achieve 26th place in the 30 Best Architecture Firms in Italy:

A+Awards Finalist	1
Featured Projects	4
Total Projects	14

25. OFL Architecture

OFL Architecture is an office founded in 2009 by Francesco Lipari and Vanessa Todaro, that operates between Rome and Sicily. OFL Architecture is an interdisciplinary architectural practice focused on emergent design processes through a design methodology that integrates architecture with other disciplines, redefining the relationship of the significant modern city and its current urban conditions.

Some of OFL Architecture’s most prominent projects include:

St Horto, 159, Via di Pietralata, Rome, Italy
Wunderbugs, Rome, Italy
Zighizaghi, Favara, Italy
Nuovo Palazzo della Provincia di Bolzano, Bolzano, Italy
New Columbarium, Campofranco, Italy

The following statistics helped OFL Architecture achieve 25th place in the 30 Best Architecture Firms in Italy:

A+Awards Winner	2
Featured Projects	3
Total Projects	20

24. CN10 Architetti

CN10 architects was founded in 2004 by Gianluca Gelmini. The study deals with architectural planning and recovery of historical heritage at different scales of intervention. Over the years the firm has participated in national and international competitions winning prizes and awards.

Any action inevitably causes changes, every new building as well as any recovery intervention involves a transformation more or less radical of the territory. Only by being aware of these conditions do architecture, it is possible to act with the utmost respect for a given environment. It is an attitude supported by a certain autonomy from the possible constraints imposed by the location and history, a position that asserts the secularity of architectural design.

Some of CN10 Architetti’s most prominent projects include:

Parish Center, Carvico, Italy
CN10 studio, Province of Bergamo, Lombardy, Italy
Torre del Borgo, Villa d’Adda, Italy
Former Monastery of San Giuliano, Bonate Sotto, Italy
Cemetery pavilion, Province of Bergamo, Lombardy, Italy

The following statistics helped CN10 Architetti achieve 24th place in the 30 Best Architecture Firms in Italy:

Featured Projects	5
Total Projects	7

23. arcari cimini architettura

arcari cimini architettura is an international and flexible team of several independent architects and architectural firms, based in different countries. They collaborate flexibly, tailoring the team to the needs of each project arcari cimini architettura is a brand with which to communicate the team’s work.

Some of arcari cimini architettura’s most prominent projects include:

The following statistics helped arcari cimini architettura achieve 23rd place in the 30 Best Architecture Firms in Italy:

Featured Projects	5
Total Projects	8

22. duearchitetti

duearchitetti is an architectural practice based in Varese, Italy. We take a humanistic approach to our design. The focus is first on the PERSON and his needs, then on the PLACE in which the building fits and the environment where we are going to operate. The knowledge of the place is further deepened by the research of its HISTORY.

PERSON, PLACE, HISTORY are thus spheres that intersect with each other and give us a first reading of the project. It is then the sensitivity of the designer who has to manage them by intervening in the emotional sphere and the dynamics of relationships between the parts. Man within the space, his movements, his pleasures. Our goal is to meet the needs of the client by preparing and sharing with him the different proposals, taking care to realize in the best way what has been designed.

Some of duearchitetti’s most prominent projects include:

La casa di Andrea, Varese, Italy
La casa di Simona e Carlo, Varese, Italy
La cappella. Arialdo, Varese, Italy
La casa di Chiara e Stefano , Varese, Italy
casa A.G., Varese, Italy

The following statistics helped duearchitetti achieve 22nd place in the 30 Best Architecture Firms in Italy:

Featured Projects	5
Total Projects	9

21. Cino Zucchi Architetti

The studio Cino Zucchi Architetti is constantly searching spatial solutions for contemporary life in the delicate and rapidly changing context of the European landscape.Its goal is to conjugate innovation and research with a professional completeness able to respond to complex programs at any scale, employing when needed a well-established net of specialized consultants (structures, plants, traffic, economy, landscape, graphics, light design).

Some of Cino Zucchi Architetti’s most prominent projects include:

The following statistics helped Cino Zucchi Architetti achieve 21st place in the 30 Best Architecture Firms in Italy:

A+Awards Finalist	1
Featured Projects	5
Total Projects	7

20. 3ndy Studio

Our activity is not only a work, but a real passion. Our purpose is to live the architecture as a mission, but also as an entertainment. According to our philosophy every project, whatever its size was, is imaged first of all as a work of art. What is architecture Vitruvio said that architecture “nascitur ex fabrica et ratiocinatione” (“is born out of the material structure and reason”). Moreover it must not be overlooked the ethical dimension that gives architecture proper life and a sense.

3ndy Studio designs a conscious architecture to everyone, in order to convey a positive and democratic message. Our projects are based on some fixed and essential points: the respect for the environment, for the society and for the future generations. Our buildings belong to high energetic classes and moreover they are powered by renewable energy, such as solar or geothermal energy. They are comfortable and at the same time they have a strong aesthetic and architectonic spirit. Those buildings give a new identity to urban spaces that have lost their value due to the speculation.

Some of 3ndy Studio’s most prominent projects include:

FAEDA, Montorso Vicentino, Italy
“ARZERGRANDE RENOVATION” – CASONE AZZURRO AND NEW PAVILION , Arzergrande, Italy
PALAZZO DI VIGONOVO “CAMPIELLO”, Vigonovo, Italy
STEEL HOUSE, Fossò, Italy
RED STONE HOUSE, Campolongo Maggiore, Italy

The following statistics helped 3ndy Studio achieve 20th place in the 30 Best Architecture Firms in Italy:

A+Awards Finalist	1
Featured Projects	5
Total Projects	15

19. ACPV ARCHITECTS Antonio Citterio Patricia Viel

Antonio Citterio Patricia Viel (ACPV) is an international and cross-disciplinary firm headquartered in Milan, Italy, founded by architects Antonio Citterio and Patricia Viel, in 2000. With some activities dating back to the Seventies, the firm is currently involved in several international projects, embracing different scales of intervention — from master planning to mixed-use developments, to residential and commercial buildings, corporate headquarters and hotels — in collaboration with a qualified network of specialist consultants.

The firm can rely on a staff of more than 130 people, coordinated by eight partners. Recent projects include luxury hotels in Europe, China and the Middle East, NOVE — an office building in Munich (Germany) – a residential condominium in Miami (US), Nexxt–Fastweb’s new HQ in Milan, and La Bella Vita high-rise in Taichung (Taiwan).

Some of ACPV ARCHITECTS Antonio Citterio Patricia Viel’s most prominent projects include:

Technogym Village, Cesena, Italy
Salaino 10, Milan, Italy
EXPO 2015, Milan, Italy
La Bella Vita, Taichung City, Taiwan
Enel Headquarters, Rome, Italy

The following statistics helped ACPV ARCHITECTS Antonio Citterio Patricia Viel achieve 19th place in the 30 Best Architecture Firms in Italy:

Featured Projects	5
Total Projects	13

18. Perathoner Architects

The top priority of this firm of architects is the creation of high-quality architecture that combines modern construction technology and timeless elegance. For us, good architecture implies the harmonious integration of individually designed buildings into a given context. A condition for this is that a building respects the characteristics of the particular location and is thus able to communicate with it.

This is, on the one hand, achieved by a restricted design vocabulary as well as the intelligent combination of selected materials on the other. The decisions taken must however always be questioned, reassessed and, if necessary, modified during the entire development process of a building in order to achieve optimal results in all aspects. RP Architects.

Some of Perathoner Architects’s most prominent projects include:

The following statistics helped Perathoner Architects achieve 18th place in the 30 Best Architecture Firms in Italy:

A+Awards Winner	1
A+Awards Finalist	2
Featured Projects	4
Total Projects	7

17. Burnazzi Feltrin Architetti

The collaboration between the architects Elisa Burnazzi and Davide Feltrin was born in 2001, on the occasion of their honorary degree examination in Architecture at the University Institute of Architecture in Venice (I.U.A.V.), with the dissertation “INTEGRATING MARGINS. A City Park and a Purification Plant in Mantova,” supervised by Professor Architect Giuseppe Gambirasio.

Architects Burnazzi and Feltrin usually work in the design and planning field applied to a wide range, from the single object up to landscape, and to several sectors, such as the residential, the museum, the commercial, the tertiary. Since 2004, they have both been Expert Designers Casa Clima, certified by the Autonomous Province of Bolzano; they constantly apply to their projects the high energy saving and environment sustainable criteria. Their planning design produces architectural projects able to connect and interact utility and emotion, spatiality and sociality.

Some of Burnazzi Feltrin Architetti’s most prominent projects include:

GI multi-family housing, Ischia, Italy
MP apartment, Valcanover, Italy
PF single family house, Valsugana, Italy
Multi-aged community centre, Poggio Picenze, Italy
CS apartment, Trento, Italy

The following statistics helped Burnazzi Feltrin Architetti achieve 17th place in the 30 Best Architecture Firms in Italy:

Featured Projects	6
Total Projects	16

16. studio raro

Based in Trento, Studio Raro was established in 2004 by Roberta Di Filippo and Roberto Salvischiani and deals with architecture and visual communication, winning and acknowledgements in both fields. The invaluable experience acquired over the years through the on-site direction of numerous construction projects, stable collaborations with professional figures in various fields, attendance of update courses on sustainability and communication and of course the simple passion and attention to detail, has allowed the Studio to tackle, in a complete, competent and professional way, a wide range of small to large-scale projects.

Some of studio raro’s most prominent projects include:

Casa MF, Trento, Italy
Agritur “La Dolce Mela”, casa dell’agricoltore, Ciago, Italy
Agritourism , Vezzano, Italy
Casa RR, Trento, Italy
Agritur “La Dolce Mela”, ampliamento, Ciago, Italy

The following statistics helped studio raro achieve 16th place in the 30 Best Architecture Firms in Italy:

Featured Projects	7
Total Projects	13

15. Plasma Studio

The term Plasma comes from Classic Greek and means modeling, form, fabric, imagination, fiction. In Physics the Plasma State- or fourth state of matter- describes a unique condition of matter arising at a complex overlay of external forces. Plasma, a charged field of particles, conducts energy.

Folding space into space, Plasma draw landscapes into buildings, streets into facades, inside to outside. Transformative tectonics set spaces, planes and bodies into unforeseen relationships that challenge conventional topographies and spatial codes. While the angular and complex qualities of their forms might superficially affiliate
them with ‘computer-generated’ architecture, decision-making is never relinquished to the computer.

Some of Plasma Studio’s most prominent projects include:

Appropriate_Bistro Bergsteiger, Sexten, Italy
Dolomitenblick, Sesto, Italy
Creativity Pavilion_Xi’an Expo’, Ba He Dong Lu, Baqiao Qu, Xian Shi, China
Strata Hotel
Cube Haus, Sexten, Italy

The following statistics helped Plasma Studio achieve 15th place in the 30 Best Architecture Firms in Italy:

A+Awards Winner	2
Featured Projects	7
Total Projects	51

14. GEZA Architettura

Established in 1999 by Stefano Gri and Piero Zucchi, GEZA Architettura is a multi-disciplinary architecture studio that focuses on the perfect balance between Ideas, Beauty and Functionality.

Some of GEZA Architettura’s most prominent projects include:

Furla Headquarters & Production Complex, Metropolitan City of Florence, Tuscany, Italy
PRATIC 2.0, Fagagna, Italy
FP Private house, Codroipo, Italy
FABER Headquarters, Cividale di Friuli, Italy
PRATIC Headquarters and Production Complex, Fagagna, Italy

The following statistics helped GEZA Architettura achieve 14th place in the 30 Best Architecture Firms in Italy:

A+Awards Winner	2
Featured Projects	6
Total Projects	25

13. Archiplan Studio

Archiplanstudio has been carrying out research activities related to architectural design for years, investigating relationships with the context. The studio’s architecture is translated into gestures and punctual interventions, which search in their own construction, the reasons of belonging to places, appropriateness and spirituality.

Some of Archiplan Studio’s most prominent projects include:

Appartamento AL, Mantua, Italy
Private Residence, Sarginesco, Sarginesco, Italy
Pozzolo, Italy
Ristorante Lacucina – Mantova, Mantua, Italy
Percoreso Paesaggistico Culturale, Virgilio, Italy

The following statistics helped Archiplan Studio achieve 13th place in the 30 Best Architecture Firms in Italy:

Featured Projects	7
Total Projects	12

12. Messner Architects

The collective is founded in 2013 by David and Verena Messner, brother and sister. The studio is located at 1,200 m.a.s.l. near Bozen / Bolzano in Northern Italy inside their father’s workshop. The practice is working on a contemporary approach in many scales, ranging from housing and functional buildings to furniture-design up to landscape projects. The primary aim of developing user- and site-specic concepts is to think and build high quality architecture. A largely regional context defines the studio’s field of action characterizing the architects’ view on the delicate relationship of built and grown. The critical look at something given and the use of transdisciplinary strategies lead to a creative dialogue between architecture, landscape, art and design.

Some of Messner Architects’s most prominent projects include:

WORKSHOP RENOVATION, Collalbo, Italy
BELLA VISTA I _Dolomites UNESCO Viewpoint Monte Specie, Dobbiaco, Italy
GROCERY STORE, Collalbo, Italy
JURI 2.1 – Stage design, Renon, Italy
CASA PLONER, Collalbo, Italy

The following statistics helped Messner Architects achieve 12th place in the 30 Best Architecture Firms in Italy:

Featured Projects	7
Total Projects	19

11. Didonè Comacchio Architects

Didon Comacchio Architects is a Rosà-based design firm that operates in different scales with a disposition toward material and sensory experimentation. Context, emotion and origin are heavily explored in the firm’s work.

Some of Didonè Comacchio Architects’s most prominent projects include:

house PB, Rosà, Italy
Interior DM, Bassano del Grappa, Italy
interior SS, Nove, Italy
Interior DR, Rosà, Italy
Depandance DCA, Rosà, Italy

The following statistics helped Didonè Comacchio Architects achieve 11th place in the 30 Best Architecture Firms in Italy:

Featured Projects	7
Total Projects	33

10. Caprioglio Architects

The Caprioglio Associates Architecture Firm was founded in 1999 as natural prosecution, progress and unification of the offices of Veneto and Friuli. Giovanni Caprioglio and son Filippo Caprioglio have created a practice that extends not only on the national territory, but also internationally and industrially. The values that the study promotes are those of the advanced culture of the project, above all for its attention to the real requirements of the client and of the historical and physical atmosphere in which it becomes part.

Some of Caprioglio Architects’s most prominent projects include:

Home P+E+3, Veneto, Italy
Private house in the foothills, Treviso, Italy
Casin di Palazzo Lezze, Venice, Italy
Nic Playroom Apartment, Mogliano Veneto, Italy
Home F+T+3, Mogliano Veneto, Italy

The following statistics helped Caprioglio Architects achieve 10th place in the 30 Best Architecture Firms in Italy:

Featured Projects	8
Total Projects	16

9. Matteo Thun & Partners

Matteo Thun & Partners is an architecture and design studio, headed by Matteo Thun and Antonio Rodriguez with headquarters in Milan, Italy and a subsidiary in Munich, Germany. The studio’s designs are inspired by timeless simplicity and centered on the human scale.

Founded in 1984, the company is operating internationally in the hospitality, healthcare, residential, offices and retail sectors and product design. Encompassing a team of 70 interdisciplinary architects, interior, product and graphic designers, Matteo Thun & Partners works from micro to macro scales with a focus on the management of highly complex projects. The work prioritizes aesthetic durability, technological longevity, and the future lifespan of buildings and products.

Some of Matteo Thun & Partners’s most prominent projects include:

The following statistics helped Matteo Thun & Partners achieve 9th place in the 30 Best Architecture Firms in Italy:

A+Awards Winner	1
Featured Projects	7
Total Projects	31

8. bergmeisterwolf architekten

“We consider architecture as a developing process, a challenge of the task, a never-ending thinking process. Problems are seen as an opportunity whose aim is to go far beyond the originally assigned and to let new possibilities evolve”. Projects are seen as a positive tension between builders and architects allowing an informal access to space, material and colors. Our architecture is often experienced as simple.

Simplicity — at its first encounter — mostly gives the deep-rooted impression of having always existed: being part of the world, working with its forces not against them. It is the goal of our architecture to find these synergies. Gerd Bergmeister was born in Brixen, Italy, in 1969.

Some of bergmeisterwolf architekten’s most prominent projects include:

The following statistics helped bergmeisterwolf architekten achieve 8th place in the 30 Best Architecture Firms in Italy:

Featured Projects	9
Total Projects	17

7. Mario Cucinella Architects

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Founded in 1992 MC A – Mario Cucinella Architects is based in Bologna and Milan and specializes in architectural design that integrates environmental and energy strategies.
The studio has carried out projects in Europe, China, North and Central Africa, the Middle East and South America. MC D – Mario Cucinella Design — specializes in the theme of recycling and the circular economy, launching in 2018.

Some of Mario Cucinella Architects’s most prominent projects include:

The following statistics helped Mario Cucinella Architects achieve 7th place in the 30 Best Architecture Firms in Italy:

A+Awards Winner	1
A+Awards Finalist	1
Featured Projects	8
Total Projects	16

6. Carlo Ratti Associati

CRA is an Architecture and Design Firm with a special focus on the synergies between sustainability and digital technologies. With offices based in Turin and New York, the firm engages in small and large-scale interventions ranging from furniture to urban planning.

Some of Carlo Ratti Associati’s most prominent projects include:

CURA, Metropolitan City of Turin, Piedmont, Italy
The Circular Garden, Milan, Italy
A Garden With Four Seasons, Milan, Italy
VITAE, Milan, Italy
The Greenary , Parma, Italy

The following statistics helped Carlo Ratti Associati achieve 6th place in the 30 Best Architecture Firms in Italy:

A+Awards Winner	2
A+Awards Finalist	1
Featured Projects	6
Total Projects	11

5. Roland Baldi Architects

The architectural studio Roland Baldi is active in architecture and urban planning, but also covers the fields of interior and landscape architecture as well as design. The projects — for the most part following successfully entered competitions — span over a large variety of different architecture manifestations including industrial and commercial buildings, residential buildings, urban planning, infrastructure, buildings for educational purposes and a variety of other studies up to furniture design. They have been built for private and business contractors in industrial areas, historical city centres, residential areas or even in the high mountains.

Some of the most important projects of the office have been the “Masterplan Zone Rosenbach” (former Mignone barracks) in Bolzano, the industrial park Syncom in Bressanone, the University in Brunico, the district heating plant in Chiusa, the mountain railway “Merano 2000” and the TechnoAlpin headquarter in Bolzano.

Some of Roland Baldi Architects’s most prominent projects include:

The new lunch room of “Ex-GIL”, Bolzano, Italy
House Lemayr, Bolzano, Italy
Cultural Center Rosenbach, Bolzano, Italy
Angela Nikoletti Square, Bolzano, Italy
Fire Station Fleres, Pflersch, Bozen, Italy

The following statistics helped Roland Baldi Architects achieve 5th place in the 30 Best Architecture Firms in Italy:

Featured Projects	10
Total Projects	22

4. MIDE architetti

MIDE Architects is an architectural firm that specializes in different areas: urban, architectural, and interior design, with particular interest in the simplicity of lines and volumes, extreme attention to detail, and finishes and choice of materials that characterize the design approach. The suggestions that inspire architectural production arise from the analysis of the functional needs of the client and the emotional reading of the place; the project is given the role of response to the vocation of the site of action, where the typical features are reinterpreted and translated into new architectural solutions. The firm’s work is distinguished by a particular attention to issues of environmental sustainability and energy consumption, thanks to many qualified specialists.

Some of MIDE architetti’s most prominent projects include:

Temporary School Gymnasium, Massa Finalese, Italy
028_HOUSE, Abano Terme, Italy
037_Country House Renovation, Lucca, Italy
081_AGOSTINI SHOES manufacturing plant, Province of Padua, Veneto, Italy
015_Detached house on the Riviera Del Brenta, Fiesso, Italy

The following statistics helped MIDE architetti achieve 4th place in the 30 Best Architecture Firms in Italy:

Featured Projects	10
Total Projects	16

3. monovolume architecture + design

monovolume architecture + design is a South Tyrolean architecture and design firm. The two founders Patrik Pedó and Jury Pobitzer met during their studies at the university of Innsbruck and in 2003 founded monovolume architecture + design, which today realizes both refurbishments as well as new constructions. Its portfolio includes conceptual studies, architectural and design projects, constructions´ planning and supervision, project management, visualization 3D and virtual reality as well as urban planning and masterplans.

In addition to architectural projects, exhibition and product design are the core fields of the office’s activity. At the heart of monovolume architecture + design is a young, interdisciplinary and international team of fifteen creatives: architects, industrial designers, 3D artists and graphic designers.

Some of monovolume architecture + design’s most prominent projects include:

Dr. Schär, Italy
House M Meran, Meran, Italy
House M2, Bolzano, Italy
Rotho Blaas srl, 2, Etschstraße, Neumarkt, Italy
Hans Klotz, Bolzano, Italy

The following statistics helped monovolume architecture + design achieve 3rd place in the 30 Best Architecture Firms in Italy:

Featured Projects	12
Total Projects	26

2. Peter Pichler Architecture

Peter Pichler Architecture is an award-winning laboratory for architecture based in Milan. We are a young, dynamic and experimental team dedicated to developing an innovative and contemporary approach to architecture. Understanding tradition is the key to radical evolution. Hence, we incorporate close familiarity with local culture and respect for the natural environment into every single project. This credo builds our studio’s foundations and reflects the way we work.

Some of Peter Pichler Architecture’s most prominent projects include:

Kastelaz Hof, Tramin an der Weinstraße, Italy
Hotel Milla Montis, Maranza, Italy
Mirror Houses, Bolzano, Italy
Oberholz Mountain Hut, Obereggen, Italy
Hotel Schgaguler, Kastelruth, Italy

The following statistics helped Peter Pichler Architecture achieve 2nd place in the 30 Best Architecture Firms in Italy:

A+Awards Winner	1
A+Awards Finalist	1
Featured Projects	15
Total Projects	15

1. noa* network of architecture

noa* is an architecture and design studio established by Lukas Rungger and Stefan Rier and based in Bolzano (Italy) and Berlin (Germany). Lukas and Stefan met while working as project architects with the renowned architect and designer Matteo Thun in Milan, being responsible for a series of challenging projects in the field of tourism, modern living and contemporary workplaces.

Before joining forces to found noa* back home in Bozen/Bolzano in 2010, both Lukas and Stefan improved their skills and fine-tuned their work-ethos during a decade of work experiences both locally and abroad. They gained particularly diverse cultural and social influences from living and working in New York, London, Berlin, Milan, Ferrara and Graz…which until present remains the crucial influence and input on their recent designs.

Some of noa* network of architecture’s most prominent projects include:

Biwak
Zallinger, 36, Via Saltria, Alpe Di Siusi, Italy
Mohrlife: The theatrical spa, Lermoos, Austria
Ötzi Peak 3251m: Reaching the peak, South Tyrol, Trentino-South Tyrol, Italy
Hubertus, Mitterolang, Italy
Apfelhotel Torgglerhof: In full bloom, Saltusio, Italy

The following statistics helped noa* network of architecture achieve 1st place in the 30 Best Architecture Firms in Italy:

A+Awards Winner	1
A+Awards Finalist	3
Featured Projects	25
Total Projects	38

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Project completed within the last 3 years
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Architectural design with a high level of both functional and aesthetic value
High quality, in focus photographs
At least 8 photographs of both the interior and exterior of the building
Inclusion of architectural drawings and renderings
Inclusion of construction photographs

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Top image: Kastelaz Hof by Peter Pichler Architecture, Tramin an der Weinstraße, Italy

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