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On Thursday, December 17, 2020 was cut the ribbon at the new headquarters of ICS Milan International School in the Symbiosis district in Porta Romana, which will welcome students from January 7, 2021. Barreca & La Varra took care of the entire project, from the concept to the interior design.

“Ciak in Italy. Foreign directors in the Italian landscape” is the section curated by the architects of the eighth edition of the exhibition entitled “Ri-connettersi”, which takes place in “phygital” form from 6 to 8 November 2020.

We join the charity initiative in aid of the Mutual Aid Fund of the City of Milan with our t-shirt “L’INNESTO”: buy it many!

The structures in elevation of the new school in the Symbiosis district of Covivio in Porta Romana have been completed in just 7 months of work: Thursday, December 19th, 2019 the children have placed the traditional flags on the roof.

The press conference will be held at 10 am on Wednesday 27th November 2019 and the laying ceremony will follow at 11:30 am on the construction site, in the presence of the President of the Lombardy Region, Attilio Fontana, and the Mayor of Milan, Giuseppe Sala.

Tuesday, October 29th, 2019 at 9 pm a new appointment of the cycle organized by Arch. Emilio Battisti at OneWorks Creative Hub, with the redevelopment of the building part of the Piazza Cordusio complex.

On Saturday, May 11th Gianandrea Barreca and Giovanni La Varra will host at Bosco Verticale the Fondazione dell’Ordine degli Architetti of Milan’s group led by Maria Vittoria Capitanucci.

Wednesday, March 13th at 17:30 at the Teatro Nuovo Giovanni da Udine, the meeting with Lino Guanciale and the company of the play “Ragazzi di vita”, taken from the novel by Pier Paolo Pasolini part of the “Pasolini in profile” review.

Friday, February 8th at the Cascina Cuccagna in Milan we will meet Roberto Vangeli (Zaha Hadid Architects) and Tomas Ghisellini to proclaim the winning project of the international competition, now in its third edition.

December 13th, 2018 Pierfrancesco Maran (City of Milan) and Fabio Carlozzo (InvesteRE sgr) presented our redevelopment project for the 5 buildings abandoned for years at the doors of the South Agricultural Park: in January 2019 the construction site will be opened.

Wednesday 21st November 2018 Giovanni La Varra talks with Paola Misino on “La casa on/off. Spaces of productive living “, moderated by Florencia Andreola, at 7:30 pm at the Babitonga Cafè of the Feltrinelli Foundation in Milan.

On Wednesday 24th October 2018 at 9 pm at Villa Panza Gianandrea Barreca and Mirko Paletti (Filcasa) will talk, moderated by Chiara Maranzana of Abitare, as part of “THINKING VARESE – The value of the client in architecture”.

On Sunday, October 14th 2018 at 11 am there will be a special screening of the documentary by Carlos Saura on the Centro Botín in Santander (Spain), at Spazio Cinema Anteo in collaboration with the Milan Design Film Festival.

An exclusive event in which Barreca, La Varra and Ing. Vavalà, Sales Director of Audi Italy, have researched the similarities between architecture and automotive by exploring the concepts of sustainability, experiential design and technology.

Tuesday, September 18th from 8pm in Via Larga 4 you can listen and vote for our playlist on the occasion of the fifth edition of Towant’s DjArch Night. Free entry!

Towant in collaboration with Giorgio Tartaro organizes the “double interviews” to the leading architects of Milan: our turn will be Thursday, July 5th at the H2Otto showroom!

Let’s celebrate the 10 years of Barreca & La Varra with Towant, opening ArchitectsParty TEN | Special Edition | MILAN. We are waiting for you on June, Tuesday 19th at 7pm! Free entry!

On Saturday, June 2nd at 6 pm the construction site of the Punta Murena residences will open its doors again, and it will be possible to visit the completed residential units.

On Thursday, May 31st there will be the press conference at Urban Center of Milan, under the patronage of the Municipality of Milan.

On Thursday, May 24th there will be at Siemens Headquarters the event “#CasaSiemens: smartworking-oriented”, the first Milanese stage of the ARELONSITE initiative by AREL – Associazione Real Estate Ladies.

Giovanni La Varra explains a selection of the studio’s work to the students of Professor Stefano Guidarini and Christian Campanella at the course “Architecture Laboratory for the Conservation of Complex Buildings”.

On Friday, April 20th, on the occasion of the Fuorisalone, Gianandrea Barreca intervenes in a talk about the city in the future Milanese eFM office in via Statuto 11, moderated by Alfonso Femia and Giorgio Tartaro.

Wednesday, April 11th at 3pm Gianandrea Barreca will lead a webinar where he will talk about innovative tools for color design in façades, developed with Settef.

Saturday, March 10th at 6:30 pm Giovanni La Varra presents the book “Amphitheatres and cities in the Cisalpina romana” by Stefano Maggi at the “International publishing fair 2018” in Fieramilanocity

“Genova tailor made” exhibition shows the design opportunities that we had in the last 20 years in Genoa and Liguria. From February 22nd to March 4th at Interno 1, Genova (free entry with registration)

Gianandrea Barreca was chef for a night during the “ShortCookingRaces 2017 – The Fast Cooking Races of Italian Architecture” by Towant Architectural Events at the Siematic showroom in Milan.

Giovanni La Varra is one of the speakers at the presentation of the book “How space transforms art, How art transforms the space” by Maddalena D’Alfonso, which will take place at the Triennale on Friday 17th November at 5 pm.

On Thursday, October 5th we will at the Foodies’ Party organized in the Grohe showroom as part of the Foodies’ Challenge 2017, in which we participate with our video project “FOODCANTIERI”. Vote for us until October 31st!

On Friday, September 15th at 6 pm, at the Grand Hotel of Alassio, the event for the Punta Murena residential project was held, which included a visit to the construction site with the first two completed units.

Until October 31st, it is possible to vote for the video project “FOODCANTIERI – Lunch break: the construction site in the kitchen, the kitchen in the yard” that we created together with Chef Reza of the Ronchi78 restaurant in Milan. We are the team n.15!

On May 27th and June 16th the studio participates in “Open! Studi Aperti”, an initiative of the National Council of Architects to raise awareness of the world of architecture to the general public and to non-professionals.

Gianandrea Barreca holds the Lectio Magistralis entitled “Modernity in transition: reflections on the relationship between natural elements and architecture” in the context of the International Day of Studies “De-signing the Environment Landscape City” organized by the DAD / Polytechnic School of Genoa.

Exactly 5 years ago, on 5th April 2012, the first of the almost 900 trees of the Vertical Forest was laid!

The “Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat”, promoted by the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, has awarded in the Crown Hall the building in Milan as the best skyscraper in the world of the year.

The international jury of the biennial prize promoted by the Museum of Architecture in Frankfurt (DAM), the City of Frankfurt and DekaBank, has announced that the Milanese building is the most innovative skyscraper in the world.