Relais Masseria Capasa is a sumptuous hotel with stone walls surrounded by beautiful olive trees in Martano, Italy and designed by Paolo Fracasso. The hotel is immersed in the colors and smells of the countryside, with the name ” Capasa ” used because of the location in which it was born, once mainly used to […]
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Sor Duilio Restaurant and Fish Market by Davide Coluzzi
We just received pictures of the latest contemporary project from architect David Coluzzi DAZ of Sor Duilio, restaurant and fish market in Rome, Italy. The main objective of this establishment was to combine selling fresh fish to retail and restaurant, a unique concept, have a look at the pictures and let us know what you […]
A modern dwelling in Italy: House M2
House M2 is situated in Bolzano, Italy designed by Monovolume Architecture + Design as a Klimahouse A which hosts two accommodations on separate floors. Because of his punctuated facade in the north and the east it seems closed to the access road. The plastered basement serves as pedestal for the smaller upper floor, which is […]
Sicilian house enjoys privileged Menorcan Bay views
This beautiful home overlooking the Menorcan Bay connects perfectly between the interior and the landscape of the island, designed by studio Codo a Codo Arquitectura. The Sicilian country house features walls that soar between secular carob, olive and almond trees. Dating back to the early 1800’s, this property features architectural wonders of the rural tradition […]
House in Urgnano by Matteo Casari Architetti
The House in Urgnano, Italy has been designed by Matteo Casari Architetti, built on a small lot within an expanding residential area. The conditions of the project site are interpreted by discordance and none of the facades overlook outside the perimeter. In the typological and stylistic multitude of the context, the volume of a rectangular […]
Renovation and expansion of a trullo in Italy
This incredible project is an historical preservation and extension of a small Saracen trullo, a typical rural building found in the Ostuni region of Italy, with an adjacent structure, a lamia, which remained only part of the perimeter walls. The renovation was undertaken by Luca Zanaroli Architetto with the intention to not only recover the […]
Prehistoric cave hotel: Sextantio Le Grotte della Civita
Restored with ultimate respect to local tradition, Sextantio Le Grotte della Civita, situated in the Sassi area of Matera, a town in Southern Italy is a 9,000-year-old Italian cave dwelling. Literally cut into the volcanic tufa of the Matera hillside, the caves of Sextantio Le Grotte Della Civita were originally a stronghold for Italian peasants. […]
Villa Ercolano perched seaside in Southern Italy
Villa Ercolano is nestled high above the ocean in the town of Ercolano, in the province of Naples in Southern Italy, designed by Fabrizia Frezza Architecture & Interiors. The villa dates back to the 1970s and had an excellent structural base on which to build. The internal distribution, especially at the ground level, did not […]
Stunning Mediterranean villa on the island of Capri
Villa Ferraro, also known as the Hotel “Belsito”, is owned by an old important family from Capri, Italy and presented itself as an old decadent building which lost its Mediterranean character. The garden, even though preserved in its charm, was in an evident state of abandon and deterioration. It extends itself till the big covering […]
Carpenter’s workshop transformed into loft: Box House
Three hundred ballot boxes turn an ex-industrial space used for carpentry into a spacious and original loft in Florence, Italy designed by b-arch architecture. The property was once a dyeworks in the nineteenth century, a carpenter’s workshop in the fifties, today ‘Box House’ is the residential loft of an architect whose design language and signature […]