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    offices

    2019 / 2023

    Scandicci (FI)

    Italy

    Offices at Via Pantin 1

    Elegance and Tradition: a façade that reinterprets the rhythms of Renaissance architecture refreshes a building from the 1970s.

    residences

    2020 / ongoing

    Milan

    Italy

    B21 Smart Apartments

    A renovation in the Navigli area for 40 class A+ apartments: the renovated facade hides a cozy courtyard.

    offices

    2021 / ongoing

    Milan

    Italy

    Oglio 21

    In a rapidly changing urban context, a composite and ever-changing facade renews an 1980s building.

    masterplan

    social housing

    2019

    Udine

    Italy

    San Domenico 2030

    "Abitare Udine. Comunità al plurale" is the new public residential housing complex in San Domenico, Udine, funded under the PINQUA program.

    social housing

    2020 / ongoing

    Sesto San Giovanni (MI)

    Italy

    MilanoSesto Unione 0

    In the former Acciaierie Falck, the first private lot of MilanoSesto, the largest urban redevelopment project in Italy.

    masterplan

    2020 / ongoing

    Milan

    Italy

    ARIA Ex-Macello

    The largest Social Housing in Europe, winner of the international competition 'C40 Reinventing Cities' edition 2020/21

    interiors

    residences

    2017 / 2021

    Milan

    Italy

    A villa and its garden

    A domestic oasis, in the center of the city, where the interiors are in spatial and material continuity with the garden.

    interiors

    social housing

    2019 / 2021

    Milan

    Italy

    La Casa di Vetro (Glass House)

    Office design for experimental social housing, natural light and flexibility are the protagonists of the domestic environment.

    offices

    2018 / 2020

    Milan

    Italy

    via Pisani 15

    A new glass facade redesigns a 1970s building in the continuous curtain wall that forms the access road to the Stazione Centrale.

    educational

    2018 / 2020

    Milan

    Italy

    Campus Symbiosis

    An innovative school complex with fluid spaces and open to the city in the Symbiosis district in Porta Romana.

    masterplan

    social housing

    2018 / ongoing

    Milan

    Italy

    L’Innesto Scalo Greco Breda

    The first Zero Carbon “Housing Sociale” project winner of the competition "C40 Reinventing Cities"

    healthcare

    2007 / ongoing

    Milan

    Italy

    New Milan Polyclinic

    The Ospedale Maggiore and the city: the Policlinico of Milan is rebuilt once again, to begin its sixth century of life.

    residences

    2018 / 2024

    Milan

    Italy

    MINAVIGLI green apartments

    A multitude of lush "vertical gardens" enriches the lounges of the loggias of the residential complex "MINAVIGLI - green apartments"

    social housing

    2018 / ongoing

    Milan

    Italy

    Social housing Sarpi-Bramante

    A social housing intervention in Sarpi district: historical facades conceal habitable courtyards permeable to the city

    offices

    2007 / 2018

    Milan

    Italy

    Siemens Headquarters

    #CasaSiemens is a headquarters built like a piece of the city, in which the articulation of courts and green spaces communicates with the surrounding context.

    residences

    2006 / 2014

    Milan

    Italy

    Vertical Forest

    The best place to take root: the first prototype of a high density urban and natural habitat was born in Milan.

    residences

    2017 / ongoing

    MILAN

    ITALY

    The Nest, via Fontana 20

    A wooden cylinder and a "vegetable" cube host residences where before there was a multi-storey car park, in the center of Milan.

    sport

    2018 / ongoing

    Tortona (AL)

    Italy

    Cittadella dello Sport

    The building for the Bertram Derthona is part of the project of the team headquarters, with pavilions for restaurants and recreational activities.

    residences

    2012 / 2015

    Milan

    Italy

    via Melloni

    A controlled schizophrenia renews a 1930s building, open-air rooms redesign the hidden front of a two-sided architecture.

    offices

    2008 / 2011

    Milan

    Italy

    RCS MediaGroup – B5

    In the district of the Rizzoli Corriere della Sera publishing house, an iridescent façade opens onto the Lambro and the city.

    offices

    2016 / 2018

    MILAN

    ITALY

    Erculea / San Senatore

    The threshold as an architectural theme of the renovation project of two buildings, their common spaces and the void that separates them.

    offices

    2017 / 2019

    Milan

    Italy

    Cantù / Orefici building

    Transparency and rigor to redesign two buildings that have repeatedly been rewritten: a court and penthouses become occasions for contemporary grafts.

    entertainment

    2019 / ongoing

    Lignano Sabbiadoro (UD)

    Italy

    Hemingway Tower

    A wooden public space-tower to be placed along the seafront, a sequence of collective spaces to vertically articulate the space of the promenade.

    social housing

    2017 / 2022

    Milan

    ITALY

    Social housing in Via Antegnati

    "5 SQUARE": an innovative social housing program regenerates five abandoned buildings on the edge of the South Agricultural Park

    offices

    2014 / 2020

    Torrevecchia Pia

    Italy

    Ugolini Headquarters

    The vegetation mitigates the presence of architecture, which reinterprets Lombard historical morphologies with contemporary materials and shapes.

    entertainment

    2003 / 2006

    Genoa

    ITALY

    Hennebique

    In the heart of the Old Port, the project for the new headquarters of the Faculty of Engineering reuses the spaces of an ancient cereal Silos.

    social housing

    2016 / 2022

    Genoa

    Italy

    Social housing Ex-Boero

    Public and private spaces: the social and urban regeneration of a social housing complex starts from the ground floor.

    offices

    2017 / 2018

    Milan

    Italy

    viale Certosa 218

    The micro-perforated aluminum renews and harmonizes the complex of buildings, which opens onto the road with the addition of a new glass volume.

    setting-up

    2018

    Genoa

    Italy

    Genoa tailor made

    The exhibition on "completed, ongoing and pending architecture" carried out by the studio over the last 20 years in Genoa and Liguria

    entertainment

    2013 / 2014 and 2015

    Desio (MB)

    ITALY

    Villa Tittoni

    An eighteenth-century villa and its park become an opportunity to create a new cultural system.

    masterplan

    2014 / in progress

    Jinshan, Shanghai

    China

    La Dolce Vita

    Mediterranean culture and Chinese tradition transform a steel city into a horizontal urban model, open to the sea.

    masterplan

    2017 / in progress

    JINSHAN, SHANGHAI

    China

    Football theme park

    The prototype of a linear football-themed park, 1 km long and organized in pavilions with commercial and entertainment activities.

    entertainment

    2013 / 2015

    Ulan Bator

    Mongolia

    Misheel Expo

    A new facade redefines an existing volume elevating it to a contemporary landmark of the capital city.

    entertainment

    2006 / 2010

    Milan

    ITALY

    Art incubator

    A covered gallery between the city and the new park, a flexible home for associations in the Porta Nuova district

    entertainment

    2004 / 2013

    Marseilles

    France

    Mediterranean Villa

    A water square between the Mediterranean and Europe, a home for art and politics, a meeting place for different cultures.

    entertainment

    2001

    Genoa

    Italy

    Ponte Parodi

    A space obtained by "digging" a portion of water and creating a square open to unpredictable and heterogeneous uses and behaviors.

    entertainment

    2014

    Milan

    ITALY

    La Terrazza dell’Arte

    A theory of rooms defined by technological portals and can be set up with flexibility for a temporary architecture resting on the roof of the Triennale.

    entertainment

    2001 / 2007 and 2008 / 2011

    Cinisello Balsamo, Milano

    ITALY

    Shopping center

    A shopping center with a parking lot, and vice versa: 10 years of projects on an "archeology" of the most important Milanese street-market.

    entertainment

    2001

    Savignano sul Rubicone, Forlì

    ITALY

    UGC multiplex cinema

    Between the Via Emilia and the railway, the 12 steel plate volumes of the multiplex reflect the large illuminated signs that characterize the Adriatic coast.

    residences

    2017 / in progress

    Sesto San Giovanni, MI

    ITALY

    Two buildings in Via Vittorio Veneto

    Two materials define the base and the body of two residential complexes of singular morphology in the fabric of the city.

    social housing

    2004 / 2006

    Seregno, MB

    ITALY

    Social housing in via Hugo

    The patios constitute the void cut into the unitary volume of the complex, which grants each residence external but collected and intimate spaces.

    residences

    2013

    prototype

    Mongolia

    [TG4UB]

    A catalog of prototypes and architectural typologies to consolidate and give a new shape to the urban structure of Mongolian cities.

    healthcare

    2013 / 2014

    Sesto San Giovanni, MI

    ITALY

    City of Health

    Along a new Main Street, the project of an open and transparent structure that places the external landscape in the foreground.

    healthcare

    2005 / 2010

    Milan

    ITALY

    CERBA

    European Center for Advanced Biomedical Research: the park, hospitals, laboratories, the university in the agricultural landscape south of the city.

    masterplan

    2016

    Shanghai

    China

    Urban Renaissance

    In the city of Shanghai, the former Krupp steelworks become a high-density district with a functional mix of excellence.

    masterplan

    2012 / 2015

    Ulan Bator

    Mongolia

    Italian Living Culture

    High and low density separated by 10 hectares of park: the new city integrates the existing landscape and creates that of services for the new community.

    masterplan

    2013 / 2014

    Khovd

    Mongolia

    Khovd

    The project of an urban form for the most important city of the Mongolian West: three new areas with three different urban atmospheres.

    offices

    2013 / 2014

    Milan

    ITALY

    Siemens VIP3

    Reception, canteen and open space work spaces: the first phase of renewal of the Siemens area in the north-east of Milan.

    offices

    2013

    Muscat

    Oman

    The Office

    The articulation of volumes in travertine and glass on the street suggests the presence of the internal courtyard facing the bright offices.

    offices

    2004 / 2005

    Milan

    ITALY

    Bicocca 307

    A pattern of glass elements updates the urban image of an industrial building from the 1960s in the Bicocca area.

    offices

    2001 / 2007

    Milan

    ITALY

    RCS MediaGroup – C

    A tower that inaugurates the urban section of the RCS publishing house and consolidates the relationship between the city of Milan and journalism.

    landscape

    2010

    Como

    ITALY

    Domestic Como

    A lounge, a games room, an aroma garden, a vestibule and a pool terrace make up the new lakefront.

    landscape

    2010

    Camogli, GE

    ITALY

    Between earth and sky

    A device for crossing, descending and ascending, moving in and out of the perimeter of a void in the urban plot of Camogli.

    landscape

    2009

    Boston

    USA

    Shift

    Are we sure we are alone in the city? How do animals live? An experiment of coexistence and biodiversity in the Boston Bay.

    landscape

    2008

    Reggio Emilia / Piacenza / Parma

    ITALY

    Liquid landscapes

    A large waterway between Turin and Venice, a 650 km long public space, a resource for the environment in the center of the Po Valley.

    landscape

    2008 / 2009

    Milan

    ITALY

    Green ring

    The cars in the parking lots, the Milanese in the street: an idea to give a new meaning to the ring of the bastions of a green city.

    sport

    2012

    Belval, Esch-sur-Alzette

    Luxembourg

    Le Fonds Belval

    A sports center that is an urban microcosm capable of interfacing with the broader macrocosm of the transforming city.

    sport

    2004

    Milan

    ITALY

    San Siro

    Circles of light mark the new access systems of the Meazza Stadium in Milan, renewed together with the internal services.

    sport

    2007

    Genoa

    ITALY

    A stadium for Genoa

    Two large urban forms alien but connected to the city and infrastructure: a stadium and a shopping forum overlooking the sea.

    sport

    2011

    Ulan Bator

    Mongolia

    Bayangol District Pool

    The prototype of a structure containing complementary sports services defined by the archetypal shape of the pitched roof.

    interiors

    2008 / 2009

    GenoA

    ITALY

    RSA Royal Sun Alliance

    Open office 01: a hybrid of open workspaces, diffused rooms and collective environments. Work moves in space.

    interiors

    2010 / 2011

    Milan

    ITALY

    Pilot Paradigm Shift – Siemens

    The pilot project experiments with a new concept of non-territorial office: unconventional objects populate the space interpreting new needs.

    interiors

    2011 / 2012

    Milan

    ITALY

    Domus Academy / NABA

    A new Campus brings together in Milan the activities of the Academy and the post-graduate school of the international Laureate group.

    setting-up

    2010

    Milan

    ITALY

    Barcode

    The preparation of the exhibition on the sector of the three RCS MediaGroup buildings at the "Spazio FMG per Architettura" in the "Milan work in progress" cycle.

    interiors

    2012

    Mosca

    Russia

    Kerama Marazzi

    The project for the extension and internal renovation of the building destined to house offices and exhibition spaces of the Russian company.

    setting-up

    1993 / in progress

    Genoa - Milan

    ITALY

    Gruppo A12

    Gianandrea Barreca is a founding member of Gruppo A12, a collective of architects that creates installations and installations all over the world.

    residences

    2016 / IN PROGRESS

    PUNTA MURENA, ALASSIO

    ITALY

    Punta Murena

    A seaside village of exceptional environmental and architectural quality: Villa Brunati and its 10 pavilions in a garden between the Aurelia and the sea.

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