John Pardey on Giuseppe Terragni’s Casa del Fascio (1936) in Como, Italy – a building that manages to embrace classical proportions and Modernist abstraction while mediating between solid and void as a means of expression.
A multifunctional education and events building for the Campus Bio-Medico University in Rome, by Italian studios Labics and Topotek 1, integrates public space and landscape in the first phase of a thirty-year development plan.
Milan-based studio, Enrico Molteni Architecture, has designed an educational hub in Parma that caters for both toddlers and vulnerable children.
In Modena, Italy, ZPZ Partners has designed a new headquarters for multinational food packaging and processing company, Tetra Pak.
Alessandro Verona Studio has turned a 13th-century tower in Udine, northern Italy, into a museum showcasing the industry of the city.
Architects Settanta7 have designed a new school in the province of Padua, employing a striking façade made up of brightly coloured fins.
Pierre d’Avoine Architects has converted a chapel in rural Umbria into a private house. Louis Mayes explores a project that weaves ecclesiastical structures and spaces into a contemporary home.
Elastico Farm has designed a lab building of interlocking pink concrete planes for the National Institute of Nuclear Physics in Turin, Italy.
The British architect, designer and writer on making a second home in Florence, where he has set up a workshop in the "bowels" of the Porta Romana district.
Elastico Farm has designed a pair of houses at Torrazza Piemonte outside Turin, that experiment with the structural possibilities of granite and disrupt the monotony of the suburban setting.
Ciclostile Architettura adds burnt wood and stone extension to a Bologna farmhouse.
