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A screening of Luigi Cutore’s film, part of the Official Selection in the AFA Architecture Film Award section of the festival, will be held on Thursday, March 7, 2024, at 6:30 p.m. at the Sala President of the Cinema Anteo in Milan.

On Monday 11 September 2023, we took some members of the General Council of Assimpredil ANCE and other associates to discover the New Milan Polyclinic project.

Barreca & La Varra participates again this year, on Saturday 13 and Sunday 14 May, in the initiative that is part of the Open House Worldwide circuit with four exceptionally open locations: 5Square, ARIA Ex-Macello, InfoPoint at the Policlinico and the renovated headquarters of the firm!

Gianandrea Barreca spoke on Wednesday 29 June 2022 at 6 pm at the Spazio Mil in Sesto San Giovanni at the first public event for the presentation of Unione 0, the first building sector of the MilanoSesto project, in which Barreca & La Varra is designing the two buildings with special agreements for the Cluster […]

On Saturday May 14th, 2022 the new ICS Milan International School in the Symbiosis district of Covivio in Porta Romana will be open for visits in 4 tours guided by architects from Barreca & La Varra and ICS Milan staff. Bookings are open from May 7, after registration on the portal (from May 3).

On Tuesday, April 13, 2021 at 12, the virtual press conference of the new edition of the event conceived by Milanese gallery owner Rossana Orlandi that will take place in September as part of the Milan Design Week 2021.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 ‘.

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

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)

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

“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.

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).

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.

“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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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 “.

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.

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

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.

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”

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”.

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.

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.

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.

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 ”