Italy
Carlo Ratti to transform Italian military barracks into open-source architecture laboratory
Salvatore Spataro’s Tastami chocolates are edible versions of traditional Sicilian tools
Drone footage captures Zaha Hadid’s mountaintop museum in South Tyrol
Vertically sliding walls open Bergmeisterwolf’s Italian villa extension to the garden
Competition: win a week-long trip to Sicily for the inaugural MADE Labs workshop
Groin-vaulted ceiling takes centre stage in revamped 18th-century property
Bergmeisterwolf reinterprets the traditional log cabin with Twisted House apartments
Athletes wear custom-engineered Nike trainers in attempt to break two-hour marathon barrier
Trio of broken arches house ossuaries in northern Italian cemetery
Cities are “deeply tragic” says Rem Koolhaas
Snarkitecture creates billowing all-white pop-up store for Valextra in Milan
Hallmarks of traditional Venice reinvented in Casa Flora holiday flat by Diego Paccagnella
Diorama converts old grocery store into tropical cocktail bar in southern Italy
All four seasons coexist in Milan garden proposed by Carlo Ratti
Acne Studios opens pink-ceilinged flagship store in Milan’s Brera district
Carlo Ratti reveals Office 3.0 workspace that promises to end “thermostat wars”
Zaha Hadid Architects completes first phase of high-speed rail station in Naples
Monolithic concrete house by Bergmeisterwolf emerges from an Alpine hillside
12 must-see installations and exhibitions at the Venice Art Biennale 2017
Andreas Gruber embeds minimal concrete house into Tyrolean hillside
Antonino Cardillo bases textured all-green gallery interior on Wagner opera
MAD and Stefano Boeri propose crinkled towers and vertical forests for Milan’s disused railway yards
Jab studio creates rustic interior for Alpine loft overlooking the mountains
