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    • Inaugurated the “Campus Symbiosis” in Milan

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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.

      17 December 2020
    • “Rumors d’ambiente – Alla ricerca della sostenibilità”, a podcast for Repower

      events

      From Thursday, November 5, 2020 is available on all platforms for free the podcast with the interview by Maurizio Melis to Barreca & La Varra on sustainability issues and in particular on the masterplan for the Scalo Greco-Breda in Milan.

      05 November 2020
    • Barreca & La Varra guest curators of Milano Design Film Festival 2020/21

      events

      “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.

      20 October 2020
    • Talk about Health for INTERNI Designer’s Week

      events

      As part of MILAN DESIGN CITY (28/9-10/10), Thursday, October 8, 2020 Giovanni La Varra will speak at Interni Magazine’s Talk on the theme “Health” together with numerous guests moderated by Matteo Vercelloni, journalist.

      25 September 2020
    • Barreca & La Varra “Architetti per Milano” with Urbanfile

      events

      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!

      05 August 2020
    • Placed the flag on the roof of the social housing Ex-Boero in Genoa

      construction sites
      events

      The structures in elevation in the residential complex of 150 apartments in Molassana, by DeA Capital sgr, were completed: the traditional flag laying ceremony was held on Thursday, February 20, 2020 in the presence of the authorities.

      21 February 2020
    • Lay the flags on the roof of the ICS School in Symbiosis in Milan

      construction sites
      events

      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.

      19 December 2019
    • Barreca & La Varra at the final meeting with the protagonists of “Milan: new architectures in comparison”

      events

      Tuesday, December 10th, 2019 at 9 pm at the OneWorks Creative Hub in Milan will be held the final confrontation between the architects protagonists of the cycle created by architect Emilio Battisti. Free admission.

      29 November 2019
    • Laying of the foundation stone of the new Milan Polyclinic

      construction sites
      events

      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.

      22 November 2019
    • “HOSPITALITY INNOVATION. Designing a unique hotel experience” workshop launch

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      Today the Design of Spaces Workshop of Domus Academy, in collaboration with Paletti Group, is launched and Gianandrea Barreca is Project Leader together with Marina Baracs.

      18 November 2019
    • “Milano. Nuove architetture a confronto”: Gianandrea Barreca presents the Cantù/Orefici project

      events

      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.

      21 October 2019
    • Gianandrea Barreca in the jury at “Qualità Emergente” by IN / ARCH Sardegna

      events

      A multi-year research project curated by IN / ARCH Sardegna, which exhibits a selection of recent noteworthy architectures, made in Sardinia since 2000, from 21st to 23rd June 2019 at Cagliari EXMA ‘.

      18 June 2019
    • Architectural Walk 2019 “Milano Alta” stops at Bosco Verticale

      events

      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.

      11 May 2019
    • “MINAVIGLI – green apartments” presentation at Palazzo delle Colonne of Intesa Sanpaolo

      events

      On Thursday, May 9th Gianandrea Barreca presented the new residential project  “with a green heart” of via Pastorelli in Milan, close to Naviglio Grande.

    • “Out of center: suburbs and suburbs”. Giovanni La Varra at the theater on Pasolini with Lino Guanciale

      events

      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.

      09 May 2019
    • Unipol “Biografilm collection”: Gianandrea Barreca introduces “Renzo Piano, the architect of light”

      events

      On Wednesday 27 February at 9 pm, at the Cinema Colosseo in Milan, Unipol and AIM will organize the screening of the documentary by Carlos Saura on the Centro Botín de Santander in Spain (invitation event)

    • In jury at Archistart’s Architectural Thesis Award 2019

      events

      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.

      05 February 2019
    • Gianandrea Barreca joins the Technical-Scientific Committee for Contemporary Art and Architecture of Mibac

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      The appointment on December 21st 2018 by the Minister for Cultural Heritage Alberto Bonisoli. “I believe I can also contribute to the defense of contemporary architecture as an opportunity for social and economic relaunching for Italy”, says Barreca.

      21 December 2018
    • Public assembly for the presentation of the social housing project in via Antegnati

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      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.

      14 December 2018
    • MIXOLOGY Design Xmas

      events

      Tuesday, December 11th at 7 pm at the Cosentino City Milano showroom we will take part in the Christmas cocktail competition between the architectural studios organized by Towant.

      27 November 2018
    • Giovanni La Varra at “ARCHIBOOKS. Happy hour with the authors”

      events

      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.

      07 November 2018
    • Presentation of “In the same boat” at Milano Design Film Festival

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      Gianandrea Barreca will introduce the docufilm on Saturday 27th October at 7.15 pm in the Abadan room at Anteo Palazzo del Cinema in Milan, in the presence of the Italian director Rudy Gnutti.

      26 October 2018
    • A debate about architecture and clients at Ordine di Varese

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      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”.

      12 October 2018
    • Gianandrea Barreca guest architect at the seminary by The Plan in Trento

      events

      On October 23rd 2018 at the Ferrari Winery of Trento, Gianandrea Barreca will talk about “Experimenting innovation” at The Plan “Value at the Project: Design, Creativity and Innovation” seminar.

      11 October 2018
    • Gianandrea Barreca introduces “Renzo Piano. The Architect of light” at Anteo

      events

      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.

      10 October 2018
    • Giovanni La Varra at “WEEKRENT Milan. A laboratory about housing policy”

      events

      Sunday, October 7th, 2018 from 2 to 4 pm Giovanni La Varra will sit at the round table “LE CASE MINIME – Builders, designers, technicians of energy”, moderated by architect Matteo Poli.

      02 October 2018
    • Audi Q8 and A6 launch with SestoAutoveicoli

      events

      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.

      27 September 2018
    • “MUSIC INNOVATION HUB – new design for creative music environment”

      events

      Today is launched this Domus Academy workshop in collaboration with BASE Milano, where Gianandrea Barreca is the project leader together with Marcello Bondavalli from studiowok.

      24 September 2018
    • Dj for a night at the DjArch Night by Towant at Minotticucine

      events

      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!

      06 September 2018
    • Press conference of “Cittadella dello sport” project in Tortona

      conferences
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      Wednesday, July 18th, 2018 at 10:30 in Piazza Allende will be officially presented our project of the new “Cittadella dello Sport” and the Bertram Derthona basket arena, an initiative of Gavio Group and Derthona Basket.

      16 July 2018
    • Barreca & La Varra take part to “DesignDuels” interviews

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      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!

      29 June 2018
    • Dialogue: New styles of living

      events

      On Wednesday, July 4th at 6pm at Milano Contract District, The Plan will organize the 4th appointment about “Designers and customers in comparison”: Gianandrea Barreca will speak with Mauro Montagner (Property Spa Edition).

      13 June 2018
    • Barreca & La Varra opens ARCHITECTS PARTY 2018 of Milan

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      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!

      07 June 2018
    • “Domus Incontra”: workshop about great commissions

      conferences
      events

      “The project for great commissions, standards and personalization”: on Tuesday, June 12th at 6 pm Michele De Lucchi introduces a dialogue between Barreca, La Varra and Camillo Botticini, at the Cotto d’Este showroom.

      05 June 2018
    • Second presentation of the residences of Punta Murena in Alassio

      construction sites
      events

      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.

      02 June 2018
    • Giovanni La Varra at Clatil meeting 2018 “Utopias Sociales”

      conferences
      events

      Friday, June 1st Giovanni La Varra will be speaker at the 5th Latin American Congress of Architecture and Design of the University of Morón (Buenos Aires).

      31 May 2018
    • “Urbanocromie”, the color collection by Settef signed by Gianandrea Barreca

      events

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

    • Giovanni La Varra tells about the Vertical Forest of Milan in Buenos Aires

      conferences
      events

      Wednesday, May 30th Giovanni La Varra will be the protagonist of a meeting dedicated to the construction of the Vertical Forest of Milan at the Solsken showroom in Buenos Aires.

      28 May 2018
    • ARELONSITE event stops at #CasaSiemens

      events

      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.

    • Open! Open Studies 2018

      events

      “Genova tailor made reloaded” is the theme of our participation at the CNAPPC national event. We will be open Friday, May 18th from 6 to 9 pm.

      16 May 2018
    • “Designign on the existent”: a lecture at Politecnico di Milano

      conferences
      events

      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”.

      03 May 2018
    • Punta Murena Golf Cup

      events

      Sunday, April 29th at the Golf Club Garlenda will take place the first edition of the “Punta Murena Golf Cup”.

      24 April 2018
    • “The city between physical dimension and digital dimension”: a talk 500×100 at eFM

      events

      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.

      20 April 2018
    • Gianandrea Barreca guest architect at The Plan seminar in Bergamo

      conferences
      events

      Thursday, April 12th at the Confindustria of Bergamo Gianandrea Barreca will talk about “Experimenting innovation” at the seminar “Value at the Project: Design, Creativity, Innovation” by The Plan magazine.

      10 April 2018
    • A webinar with Settef about color design

      conferences
      events

      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.

      09 April 2018
    • Opening of Siemens Headquarters in Milan

      construction sites
      events

      On Thursday, March 22nd the opening of our #CasaSiemens project in via Vipiteno took place in Milan.

      15 March 2018
    • Giovanni La Varra moderates “Reading the city in the dynamic past-present-future” at “Tempo di Libri”

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      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

      07 March 2018
    • Misheel Expo wins the German Design Award 2018

      awards
      events

      The project realized in Mongolia for Termigas obtained the prestigious recognition of the German Design Council in the “Excellent Communications Design Architecture” category.

      09 February 2018
    • Genoa tailor made: completed, ongoing and waiting architectures

      events
      exhibitions

      “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)

      22 January 2018
    • “Ricorrenze”: an event’s calendar for 2018

      events

      10 years have passed since the foundation of the architectural studio, but Gianandrea Barreca and Giovanni La Varra have been working together as architects since 1998. “Ricorrenze” (anniversaries) is the calendar that collects events and initiatives of 2018: exhibitions, meetings, projects that comes to an end and new building sites that will be opened.

      01 January 2018
    • At the stoves for the ShortCookingRaces by Towant

      events
      publications

      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.

      22 November 2017
    • Gianandrea Barreca among the speakers of “GENOVA DOMANI Actions to transform the city”

      conferences
      events

      Friday, November 17th the Genoa Order of Architects organizes the conference “General States of the Economy of Genoa” at the San Salvatore hall in Piazza Sarzano with ANCE Genova, and Gianandrea Barreca will speak at the round table “Rules and regulations, how to take off regeneration in Genoa “.

      15 November 2017
    • Giovanni La Varra speakers at Bookcity in Triennale

      conferences
      events

      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.

      07 November 2017
    • Giovanni La Varra takes part at Festival Mimesis in “Populism between literature and architecture”

      conferences
      events

      Saturday, October 28th at 5 pm at the Einaudi Bookstore in Udine, as part of the Mimesis Festival, Giovanni La Varra will talk with Arnaldo Colasanti, writer and literary critic.

      12 October 2017
    • Foodies’ Party for Foodies’ Challenge 2017

      events

      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!

      02 October 2017
    • In the jury at the Short Cooking Races 2017

      events

      On October , Wednesday 4th we will be judges in the second edition of ShortCookingRaces, “fast races of Italian architecture” organized by Towant Architectural Events at the new FlagShip Store of Siematic Milan

    • Opening of residential Punta Murena’s construction site in Alassio

      construction sites
      events

      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.

      05 September 2017
    • Lecture in Triennale for Milano Arch Week 2017

      conferences
      events

      Thursday, June 15th at 2.30 pm Gianandrea Barreca and Giovanni La Varra will hold the “Architecture in progress” lecture in Agora at La Triennale di Milano on the occasion of the first Milan Arch Week.

      15 June 2017
    • Vote for FOODCANTIERI at Foodies’ Challenge 2017

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      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!

    • Video première of Foodies’ Challenge at Triennale di Milano

      events

      Wednesday, June 7th at 5 pm at Triennale is held the première of the 17 videos that contribute to Foodies’ Challenge, including our “FOODCANTIERI – Lunch break: the yard in the kitchen, the kitchen in the yard”

      07 June 2017
    • Open! Open Studies 2017

      events

      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.

      27 May 2017
    • Speech of Giovanni La Varra at “Vicino/Lontano – Premio Terzani” in Udine

      conferences
      events

      Giovanni La Varra participates in the meetings “Architecture and Populism” and “Italian Architecture, from Postmodern to today” in occasion of festival “Vicino/Lontano – Premio Terzani”.

      12 May 2017
    • Lectio by Gianandrea Barreca “Modernity in transition” in Genova

      conferences
      events

      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.

      10 May 2017
    • Ceremony of laying the flag at the Siemens Headquarters in Milan

      construction sites
      events

      Thursday, April 27th at 11:30am there was the ceremony of laying the Italian flag on the roof of the Siemens Headquarters in via Vipiteno 4, on the occasion of the end of the construction of the structures.

      27 April 2017
    • 5 years from the laying of the first tree on the Vertical Forest

      events

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

      05 April 2017
    • Giovanni La Varra’s speech at Friuli Future Forum

      conferences
      events

      Giovanni La Varra takes part to the meeting “Energy and safety of the regional territory to regenerate value” organized in the framework of the “Friuli Future Forum – Starting again! Italy which will come” at 5pm in the Sala Valduga of the Chamber of Commerce of Udine.

      15 February 2017
    • Bosco Verticale wins the Best Tall Building Worldwide award 2015 by CTBUH of Chicago

      awards
      events

      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.

      12 November 2015
    • Gianandrea Barreca receives the “Global Design and Innovation Award” in San Diego

      awards
      events

      On Saturday 20th, June 2015, at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla (California), Gianandrea Barreca was awarded the prestigious “Global Design and Innovation Award” by the San Diego Newschool of Architecture and Design.

      20 June 2015
    • Bosco Verticale wins the International Highrise Award 2014 by DAM of Frankfurt

      awards
      events

      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.

      19 November 2014
    • Speeches at “2° Forum Architetture per la Sanità” by Il Sole 24 Ore

      conferences
      events

      Gianandrea Barreca and Giovanni La Varra are speakers at the “2° Forum Architetture per la Sanità” organized by Il Sole 24 Ore, as part of the “Next” focus with the contribution: “Redevelopment of the Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Mangiagalli and Regina Elena of Milan: new forms for health ”

      19 March 2013
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