Monolithic green marble forms "majestic wall" in Milan apartment
Italian studio AIM has designed a compact, multi-level apartment interior in Milan organised around a floor-to-ceiling Verde Alpi marble partition. More
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"Ratti's Venice biennale appointment marks a screeching U-turn"
Carlo Ratti's appointment as the next Venice Architecture Biennale director raises questions about how architecture's most important event will be impacted by Italy's far-right government, writes Catherine Slessor. More
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Robocoop conceals Rome palace restoration work with "illusionary infill facade"
Italian studio Robocoop has created a temporary facade to blend into its historic surroundings and hide ongoing construction on a palace courtyard restoration in Rome. More
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Antonino Cardillo designs Elogio del Grigio house as "miniature palazzo"
Italian architect Antonino Cardillo has completed a house near Lake Garda featuring steep ceilings, arched doorways and a palette of textured plaster and marble. More
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Mario Cucinella Architects reveals semicircular hospital rising out of the ground in Cremona
Italian studio Mario Cucinella Architects has unveiled its design for a hospital and health park in Cremona, Italy, which appears to rise out of the ground in concentric rings. More
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Humbert & Poyet sets up Beefbar restaurant inside 16th-century Milanese chapel
Interior design duo Humbert & Poyet has delivered an opulent setting for the Milan outpost of high-end steakhouse Beefbar, taking over the former chapel of a 500-year-old seminary on Corso Venezia. More
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Daisuke Yamamoto presents recycled steel chairs under Milan railway arch
Japanese designer Daisuke Yamamoto presented recycled steel chairs on podiums of the same material as part of an exhibition in Milan, which has been shortlisted for a 2023 Dezeen Award. More
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Patricia Urquiola converts historic palazzo into Six Senses Rome hotel
Milan-based designer Patricia Urquiola has converted a palazzo in Rome into a hotel and spa, filled with circular elements and traditional Italian materials. More
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Brutalist Italy book showcases "sometimes surprising" concrete architecture
A Star Wars-like cemetery extension and a cheese-shaped temple feature in this roundup, where photographers Roberto Conte and Stefano Perego spotlight the best brutalist buildings from their book Brutalist Italy. More
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Cliffside hotel on Italy's Amalfi Coast incorporates medieval stone defences
A 1960s Italian hotel and the historic coastal bulwarks below have been restored by architect Bonaventura Gambardella and interior designer Nikita Bettoni. More
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Seven uses of unconventional materials at Lake Como Design Festival
A lamp made of volcanic rock and a cork chair are among the products exhibited at Lake Como Design Festival that make use of unconventional materials. More
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Andrew Trotter and Marcelo Martínez refresh 17th-century home where time "stood still"
Casa Soleto, a 17th-century house in Puglia, Italy, has been carefully renovated using lime plaster, terrazzo and furniture salvaged from a monastery. More
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Jonathan Tuckey Design restores and extends traditional stone farmstead in Italy
Jonathan Tuckey Design has renovated a former farmstead in northern Italy, restoring and extending a cluster of 19th-century stone buildings to create Cascina, a new home and studio. More
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ElasticoFarm raises house on stilts around central void in Italian park
Architecture studio ElasticoFarm has created a house on stilts around a suspended void nestled in the trees of a private park in Cambiano, a town to the southeast of Turin in northern Italy. More
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The Rome Edition opens in converted 1940s bank building
American entrepreneur Ian Schrager's The Edition group has landed in Rome, opening a hotel in a converted bank that makes use of its soaring lobby, original marble staircases and hidden front courtyard. More
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Objects of Common Interest installs snake-like light in Bergamo piazza
A huge tube of light forms a series of arches in this installation created by design studio Objects of Common Interest for this year's Italian Capital of Culture. More
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San Siro saved from demolition due to its cultural significance
The iconic San Siro in Milan, which was set to be replaced by a Populous-designed stadium, has been saved from demolition because of its "cultural heritage". More
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Marcante-Testa blends "unique characteristics of Venetian identity" for Ca' Select bar and distillery
Italian studio Marcante-Testa has turned an industrial building in Venice into the canal-side Ca' Select bar, visitor centre and production facility. More
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Cava Arcari performance space by David Chipperfield captured in new photos
British photographer Edmund Sumner has captured the monolithic performance space that David Chipperfield Architects crafted within Cava Arcari, a cave near Vicenza in Italy. More
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Pinwheel house by JM Architecture resembles "a white pebble in the landscape"
Glossy white-concrete panels clad this holiday home with a pentagonal plan in Italy, which has been designed by Milan studio JM Architecture. More
