The social housing project in Via Antegnati in Milan, completed in 2022 for Redo SGR, is the first Italian project to receive this recognition. The award ceremony took place in Paris at the end of November 2025.
On Thursday, October 30, 2025, at 6 p.m., the architects will speak at the presentation of the book celebrating OHM’s tenth anniversary, to which they contributed an essay on the future of the city.
On Friday, October 31, 2025, at EFM in Milan, the architects will participate in the two-day talk “Architecture and Human Rights. Cities of Resistance, Inclusion, and Justice,” organized by Eleonora Carrano.
From October 1st to November 16th, the studio will participate in the sixth edition of the event with the MINAVIGLI Green Apartments project in Milan, invited by the curatorial team to exhibit in the Museum of Ancient Ships at the Arsenali Medicei.
A conversation with Valentina Silvestrini about urban regeneration, social housing, and public space, as well as “lost projects” and an emotional form of “accompaniment” for architecture.
Twelve years after “Matters of Facade,” Barreca & La Varra return to reflect on their work in a second monograph, edited by THE PLAN Editions. Find out the presentation schedule here.
The Vertical Forest project by Boeri Studio (S. Boeri, G. Barreca, G. La Varra), realised and managed by COIMA, receives the Award of Excellence from the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) 2024 and is among the finalists in the 10 Year Award category.
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.
Gianandrea Barreca will speak on Saturday 16 December 2023 at one of the three public lectures organised in the event’s packed panel of events, entitled ‘Achieving Sustainability in Architecture’.
From 13 to 29 October, the studio will participate in the fifth edition of the event with the Ex-Boero social housing project in Genoa, on show in the “L’ABITARE” section at the Sangallo Bastion in the Pisa Pavilion.
On Thursday 26 October at 6 p.m. at the Atlas Concorde Studio Milano, architects speak at the new talk in the cycle “AROUND DESIGN. Meet Talk Connect” with Paolo Cresci, ARUP Italy.
On Monday, October 2, 2023, the award ceremony for the IN/ARCHITECTURE 2023 AWARDS, promoted by IN/ARCH (National Institute of Architecture) and ANCE (National Association of Building Contractors) in collaboration with Archilovers, took place at the Milan Cultural Center.
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.
On Wednesday, June 21st, at 7 p.m. we celebrate the first 15 years of Barreca & La Varra together with Towant at the Architects Party 2023 in Milan! Entrance with compulsory registration!
On Friday 19 May 2023, to coincide with the official opening of the 18th Venice Architecture Biennale, there will be the opening of The New Together exhibition organised for the second year by Casa Platform in the Scuola Grande di Misericordia in Venice.
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!
On Thursday 4 May 2023 at 6 p.m. at the Centro Culturale di Milano, Gianandrea Barreca will take part as a speaker at the new Urbanfile Dodecaedro Urbano event, dedicated to the Ex-Macello regeneration project.
The international school project realised for Covivio in Milan has won a new international award, in the category ‘Educational Buildings’. the award ceremony will take place in Ljubljana in May.
‘OPEN A block open to the city’ is the project of the team represented by Sar. Mar. Spa with SINERGI consulting as environmental expert that is shortlisted in the third edition of the international competition promoted by the City of Milan and C40 Cities.
On Thursday 24 November 2022, the award ceremony of the second edition of the prize organised by The Plan and Scenari Immobiliari took place: the social housing project realised for Dea Capital Real Estate sgr won in the ESG – Environmental and Social Governance – category.
On Friday, September 23, 2022 Tortona will be the centre of Italian and international basketball, the 2022 edition of “Meet the Best” will take place at the Civic Theatre and Barreca & La Varra will present the ongoing project of the Derthona Basket “Cittadella dello Sport”
On Tuesday, September 20, 2022 at 6 pm at Palazzo Podestà, the workshop organised as part of the “LANDSCAPE FESTIVAL”, now in its 11th edition, will take place on the topic of “Reflections on the relationship between environmental attention and the character of new and renovated buildings”.
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 […]
In Saturday, May 28th 2022 at 6 pm opens the exhibition of sketches that the architect has collected over the years, concerning some projects realised with Barreca & La Varra, curated by Eleonora Carrano and Carmelo Baglivo. A closing talk with guests is scheduled for Friday, June 10th, 2022 at 6 pm.
On the morning of Wednesday May 4, 2022, the inauguration of the social housing complex built in the area of the former Boero paint factory took place in Molassana. Barreca & La Varra realised the architectural project and took care of the artistic direction of the building site for DeA Capital sgr through its Liguria […]
Il Giornale dell’Architettura and Cult Lab Torino organize on Wednesday 11th May 2022 at 7 pm at Tom Dixon Space an evening dedicated to new projects in progress in Milan, guests also Giancarlo Tancredi, Carlo Ratti and Patricia Viel.
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).
After the cycle of live events organised in 2019 by Arch. Battisti at OneWorks Creative Hub, the book dedicated to our Piazza Cordusio project has been released.
From 21 to 24 October 2021 the 9th edition of the festival will be staged in a phygital version. “CIAK IN ITALY. Foreign directors in the Italian landscape” is the theme of the curatorship, which will be the subject of screenings and talks with international guests.
“RENAISSANCE. SPAZIO COLLETTIVO / SPAZIO INDIVIDUALE” is the theme of the event that will take place at the Arsenali Repubblicani from 8 to 17 October, organised by the LP Association. Barreca & La Varra is participating with the Ugolini HQ project in the section “Rethinking the work space”.
The “ARIA” project by lead partner Redo Sgr società benefit won the 2020/21 edition of C40’s international competition Reinventing Cities for the Ex-Macello area in Viale Molise, in the Calvairate area: Barreca & La Varra are in the Architecture and Urban Planning team with Snøhetta Oslo (lead architect), CZA Cino Zucchi Architetti, Stantec and Chapman […]
On Thursday 3 June 2021 at 14:30 Gianandrea Barreca and Giovanni La Varra will take part in the fifth webinar of the cycle “Architecture to come: ideas, opportunities and solutions for design that looks to tomorrow” with the presentation “Nature is a project”.
The Ugolini HQ project has been selected for the thematic exhibition to be held in the Scuola Grande di Santa Maria della Misericordia from 22 May to 22 August 2021, in conjunction with the first three months of the Venice Architecture Biennale.
Barreca & La Varra will design the affordable housing building of “Unione Zero”, the first private development lot of the largest urban regeneration project in Italy.
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.
In the special issue “Architecture for Education” of the international architectural magazine THE PLAN (n.128 /2021) you can find the new episode of “Viaggio in Italia” edited by critic Valerio Paolo Mosco, entitled “The suitable behavior of architecture”, which tells about our studio and in particular the project of the Campus Symbiosis of ICS Milan […]
Friday, March 5, 2021 at 6 pm, live streaming of the third and last meeting of the cycle curated by Alberto Saibene, who will talk with Giovanni La Varra about the films that have described Milan.
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.
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.
“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.
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.
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 projects “L’Amber Playful Yards” for Scalo Lambrate and “ARIA” for Ex-Macello and Palazzine Liberty pass to the second phase of the international competition organized by the City of Milan together with C40.
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.
The project inaugurated in 2018 in Milan received the prestigious award from the German Design Council in Frankfurt on 7th February 2020.
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.
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.
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.
From November 21st to December 1st 2019, at the Arsenali Repubblicani of Pisa, ten days of events, talks, exhibitions dedicated to the architecture of the “Tempodacqua”.
On November 2019, Thursday 21st and Friday 22nd, the meeting of the European Federation for Living in Amsterdam will take place in Milan, in collaboration with Fondazione Housing Sociale and Università di Milano Bicocca – Department of Sociology and Social Research.
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.
Our redevelopment project of the Cantù/Orefici Building in Milan is part of Hines’ Cordusio District, shortlisted for the prize that will be awarded at Cannes on November 14th, 2019.
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.
The two Milanese towers are the only Italian project and one of the 9 Europeans included in the list by the prestigious American Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat which celebrates its first 50 years in 2019.
INNESTO, the first Zero Carbon “Housing Sociale” project proposed by the team represented by Fondo Immobilare Lombardia (FIL) managed by Investire sgr with Fondazione Housing Sociale (FHS) as strategic partner, Barreca & La Varra as architects and landscape designers, and Arup Italia as environmental and urban planning expert, wins the “C40 Reinventing Cities” competition for […]
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 ‘.
Tuesday 18 June 2019 from 8.30 pm at the headquarters of the Foundation of the Order of Architects of Milan, Ezio Micelli moderates the meeting attended by Fabrizio Barca, former Minister for Territorial Cohesion, and architects Francesca Torzo and Patrizia Pisaniello.
Friday, May 24th, 2019 Gianandrea Barreca will be held at the “City and Territory. Visions” conference, organized by the Order of Architects of Bolzano and Trento, a lectio where it will bring the experience of Milan through the story of the most recent studio projects.
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.
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 Friday, May 10th at the Sala delle Colonne of the LUISS Campus, the “Vittorio Bachelet Public Administration Research Center” inaugurates the series of meetings with a focus on Italian port infrastructures.
Thursday 9 May 2019 at 18 the first of two meetings curated by Jacopo Muzio in the cycle “DE-LIMITE: walls, barriers, barbed wire”, coordinated by Marco Biraghi.
Tuesday 7 May 2019 at the Palazzo delle Stelline in Milan the professionals invited by AIM and Scenari Immobiliari will discuss the future of the city and the effects of the PGT on the territory.
Wednesday 27 March 2019 at the Victor Jara Theater in Vecindario (Gran Canaria, Spain) Barreca will present the studio’s projects with a particular focus on Vertical Forest, as part of the thirteenth edition of the conference.
Thursday 21 March 2019 at the Sala delle Grida in the Palazzo della Borsa, Gianandrea Barreca will give the speech “The important thing is to participate: competitions as places of experimentation” at The seminar “The architecture and design at the center: creativity, technology, research” of The Plan.
On Wednesday 20 March at 8.30 pm at the Civic Center, Giovanni La Varra will talk with Mauro Piffer of the Municipality of Campoderno Val di Non.
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.
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)
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.
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.
The new Siemens headquarters in Milan are inserted by The Plan in the fifth paper collection of the projects of the rich atlas of Italian on-line architecture.
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.
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.
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.
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.
In the Molassana district, 170 new lodgings as well as commercial activities, an urban park and meeting areas in the former paint factory area; will be completed within two years.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
“Offices and spaces for work” is the theme of the 23rd issue of the Abitare, Corriere della Sera and Politecnico di Milano editorial line.
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.
The Award each two years brings international attention to the most significant buildings in the world, and will be awarded at the end of the year.
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!
The project “Grafting” that we developed with InvestiRE sgr is among the finalists of the international call, selected by the jury presided over by Benedetta Tagliabue of EMBT.
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.
The Argentine weekly ARQ, attached to the newspaper Clarin, reports a long interview with Giovanni La Varra who, on the occasion of his trip, told about the ongoing and realized projects of the studio.
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!
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).
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!
“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.
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.
“Ceramic Architecture – Beauty by vocation” is the attachment by Cottodeste to the Domus issue of June 2018 which publish our project of the Siemens Headquarters of Milan in an article entitled “Macrocosm”.
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).
On Thursday, May 31st there will be the press conference at Urban Center of Milan, under the patronage of the Municipality of Milan.
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.
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.
“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.
Bosco Verticale of Milan is among the twenties winners of the Award of Royal Institute of British Architects 2018 for International Excellence.
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”.
Sunday, April 29th at the Golf Club Garlenda will take place the first edition of the “Punta Murena Golf Cup”.
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.
On Wednesday, April 18th, at the Order of Architects of Naples, Gianandrea Barreca will speak at the seminar “Ventilated wall system in urban architecture, design and technological devices” sponsored by Abet Laminati and Etanco.
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.
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.
The day after the opening of #CasaSiemens, Corriere tells about the project and the principles of mobile and “connected” work.
Gianandrea Barreca and Giovanni La Varra take part in the celebrations for the win of Porta Nuova, within which Bosco Verticale represents a building typology that favors the development of biodiversity in the city.
On Thursday, March 22nd the opening of our #CasaSiemens project in via Vipiteno took place in Milan.
After 8 months of work, the last delivery of the new Polyclinic construction design project was carried out. On the roof of the Central Building will rise the largest therapeutic roof garden in the world, extended as a football field and open to citizens.
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
The project realized in Mongolia for Termigas obtained the prestigious recognition of the German Design Council in the “Excellent Communications Design Architecture” category.
“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)
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.
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.
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 “.
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.
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 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 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
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.
On Thursday, June 29th at 12am is officially presented the project of the New Polyclinic at the Great Hall of the Mangiagalli Clinic in 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.
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!
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”
Gianni Biondillo on the Vanity Fair Collection “Excellence” chooses Bosco Verticale as the cover of his article on Milan “Fly high”, dedicated to skyscrapers, new museums and green areas of the city that is being renewed.
The project of the Siemens Headquarters in Milan is included by Il Sole 24 Ore among those who are revolutionizing the way of conceiving office work in the “smart Milan”, home of major international companies.
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.
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”.
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.
IoArch talks about the construction site of the Siemens Headquarter in via Vipiteno 4 in Milan that have reached the roof.
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.
Vertical Forest was published in the first issue of the “Architecture and Interior Urban” series, the new collaborative editorial project between Corriere della Sera, Abitare and Milan Polytechnic, dedicated to the city of Milan.
Exactly 5 years ago, on 5th April 2012, the first of the almost 900 trees of the Vertical Forest was laid!
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.
Gianandrea Barreca and Giovanni La Varra speak about the international competition win for Jinshan marina, closed to Shanghai, interviewed by Chiara Maranzana for Abitare.
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.
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 reflect on the relationship that the city of Milan and the water have had in the past and in the present, and propose new ideas for the future.
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.
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 ”
“Architectural identity: B5, the building of communication media”: the building housing the Rizzoli Corriere della Sera publishing brand is inserted by The Plan in the first paper collection of the projects of the on-line atlas.
From today you can find in bookstores the book edited by Moreno Gentili and published by Skira that collects reflections around some projects carried out by the studio in recent years. The specific theme chosen for each chapter becomes a pretext to look critically at the work done.
The Siemens office complex in via Vipiteno in Milan won the Italian prize for the “Most Innovative Building” category at the fourth edition of the international conference on energy efficiency and sustainable architecture at the Verona Fair.