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The mystery of the old Cinema Arti

Among the pearls of rationalist Milan, we highlight this building on Via Pietro Mascagni designed in the 1930s by architect Mario Cereghini. It has long been left in a state of neglect L'articolo The...

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A church designed by Detti and Scarpa

The Ministry of Cultural Heritage has recognised the Church of San Giovanni Battista in Firenzuola as a heritage asset, a work dating from the early post-war period that gave space to modern...

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Workers’ villages in Morocco

A project and a crowdfunding campaign aim to showcase small Moroccan workers' towns, settlements that blend tradition and modern language. It’s an idea of the Milan-based Associazione Culturale NOSTOI...

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Gallerie d’Italia to open in Turin

After Milan, Naples and Vicenza the Gallerie d'Italia museum format by Banca Intesa Sanpaolo opens in Turin too, at Palazzo Turinetti. Designed by Michele De Lucchi and Amdl Circle L'articolo Gallerie...

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Mondolfo, open-air gallery

The little medieval town in the Marche offers itself up as a permanent exhibition space for the visual arts. In its streets and squares you bump into pop works, photographs and street art pieces...

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Camping among the ruins

In Spain the abandoned village of Ruesta, along the Camino de Santiago, comes back to life thanks to the project designed by Sergio Sebastián’s studio. Which also includes campsites spread out...

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A coastal retreat

A hideaway for artists, writers and intellectuals, Le Sirenuse in Positano has always been one of the world’s best-loved luxury hotels. All thanks to the highly talented family that has been running it...

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An exemplary restoration

In Florence the MiBACT completed the innovative restoration of the sumptuous stone paraments of the Chapel of the Princes, the Medici mausoleum that was one of the longest building sites in history...

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Historic Italian hospitals

In Florence the ACOSI association is born, which promotes knowledge about and the use of the scientific and cultural heritage of historic Italian hospitals. Beautiful, and still in operation L'articolo...

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Let’s save Franchi stadium

An extraordinary example of urban design, the Florence stadium designed in the 1930s by Pierluigi Nervi today risks being demolished L'articolo Let’s save Franchi stadium sembra essere il primo su...

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SOS 900

Abitare has entrusted the photographers of White Box Studio with the task of presenting some important 20th-century works that are at risk in Milan L'articolo SOS 900 sembra essere il primo su Abitare.

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Two exemplary Italian exhibition designs

Two recent exhibition design projects showcase the works of Beato Angelico and Leonardo in different but equally interesting ways L'articolo Two exemplary Italian exhibition designs sembra essere il...

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Routes of beauty

It works on your cell phone and indicates nearby places of note. Stendhapp guides us in the discovery of treasures that are right under our noses but we didn’t know about L'articolo Routes of beauty...

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Pure Milano

The new app Pure Milano, developed by the Dutch designer and photographer Sosthen Hennekam, offers news on over seven thousand Milanese pieces of architecture L'articolo Pure Milano sembra essere il...

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A treasure to be rediscovered

An urbanist and refined architect, the Florentine Edoardo Detti. A master of precious details, the Venetian Carlo Scarpa. Together they designed several buildings in the 1950s and 1960s. Including the...

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Lecco modernism at risk

In Lecco, there are questions about the fate of two modern architectural works abandoned for years: the Palace of Justice and the former Banca Popolare of the city L'articolo Lecco modernism at risk...

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