Archea exhibits at Shanghai
The UBPA B3-2 exhibition pavilion, realized for the Expo Shanghai 2010, and the GEL-Green Energy Laboratory research centre which was opened in May 2012 at the Jiao Tong University in Shanghai, are the two projects chosen to represent Studio Archea’s recent activities in China within the context of the exhibition currently on show at the ...
Area 127 / Identity of the landscape
Identity of the landscape: less aestethic more ethics Among the many Venice Biennials that have been held there are two, more than twenty years apart, whose messages, expressed in a nutshell by their titles, leap into mind whenever one finds oneself dealing with an urban theme or working with a consolidated context. I am referring to ...
Area 126 / Hamburg
Hamburg, reflections of water and architecture In Hamburg a red – brick red – thread connects the spectacular and famous Elbphilarmonie building designed by Herzog & de Meuron, still in construction, with the expressive contours of Fritz Höger’s Chilehaus. But it would be a bad mistake to limit the affinities between these extraordinary icons to ...
Terreria for Moroso
There is usually a bookcase in every home, where books, memories and photographs – objects we do not want to forget – are kept. It is the collector of our memory; it is usually made in wood, sometimes in metal or glass, but never in earthenware in spite of the need for natural elements, indispensable ...
“I MASSIVI” of ITLAS
We have by now become so accustomed to all kinds of process of alteration of materials through artificial manufacturing procedures that reinvent every ordinary gesture that we tend to forget the value of authenticity, the preciousness of nature, the beauty of all that is natural. Our familiarity with alteration by now surpasses the limits of ...
APARTMENTS IN VIA MAESTRI CAMPIONESI
Archea took over the task of planning the construction of a residential building in via Maestri Campionesi in central Milan in 2009. The project centres on the external facades, the public areas of the building including the entrance hall and connecting areas – both to the apartments and to the garages on the ground floor ...
Expansion of “Le Terrazze” nursing home
The needs for renovation and expansion of the “Le Terrazze” nursing home in the municipality of Cunardo have been met by Archea in cooperation with architect Lorenzo Cortellari; the team have designed the facing of the new wing of the complex and its new wing. The design of the outer surfaces of the new building ...
GRAPHIC DESIGN FOR THE ANTINORI WINERY
If the concept of total work of art or Gesamtkunstwerk may be overly ambitious for a description of the result achieved by Archea in the new winery of Marchesi Antinori, it is nevertheless interesting to try to paint a picture of the complexity and completeness, in terms of design, of the project as a whole. ...
Liling
The concept for the Liling design came out of our client’s wish to site certain other important functions, such as a museum and a hotel, in an industrial are for ceramics processing. The various functions are placed within volumes with a circular plan, or inside forms that can be geometrically circumscribed. At any rate, the ...
Marco Casamonti at Arq.Futuro
Belo Horizonte, Brazil, 7 November 2012 Architect Marco Casamonti featured as one of the lecturers at the fourth edition of the international architecture forum Arq.Futuro, hosted in the Brazilian city of Belo Horizonte on the 6th and 7th November 2012. The event, which was first held in 2011 and has since been repeated every six months in ...
Area 125 / Cino Zucchi
Cino Zucchi: from the MIT to the Polytechnic and back To suggest a critical reading of an architect and a work that is so close both on a personal level and on a professional one may entail the risk of a non-objective vision, blurred by the fact that a clear focus, which usually requires a certain ...
Tasly Hotel & Offices Building Design
The customer of the whole operation is Tasly Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd., which has resolved to construct a new building on the site of its plant in Tianjin, as symbol and territorial landmark with sufficient room to house the new executive offices of the Tasly Company as well as a large hotel with about 600 rooms ...
