These days, Italy is not particularly renowned for its consumer electronics products; yet, there was a time, in the ’60s, when an Italian company was reputed to be the “European response” to American ...

Recently, at an exhibition in Milan, I had the rare occasion to see a restored version of the famous Maison Bulle (The Bubble House) designed by French architect Jean-Benjamin Maneval in the early ...

While approaching the Tate Modern after crossing the Thames by the Millenium Bridge, a visitor can hardly imagine what is currently happening behind the glorious former Bankside Power Station which is ...

The oldest public museums opened in Italy during the Renaissance. The Capitoline Museum and the Vatican Museums are perhaps the first institutions that we could call “museums”, although they were not ...

A necklace by Japanese jewelry designer Eriko Unno, made by skilfully intertwining audio cassette magnetic tape and gold leaf. Photo © E. Unno Design: recycling vs ...

The Castelvecchio Museum (Italian: Museo di Castelvecchio) in Verona is an art museum housed in an imposing medieval fortress in the city center and not far from the Arena amphitheater. Building and ...

Tate Modern is a museum of modern art in London, part of the Tate network together with Tate Britain, Tate Liverpool, and Tate St. Ives. Located on the southern embankment of the River Thames in the ...

At the 17th Venice Architecture Biennale, the United States Pavilion presents American Framing, an exhibition dedicated to wood-framed construction in American architecture. “We want to work with a ...

In 1988, when the West Berlin Senate announced a competition for the “Extension of the Berlin Museum with a Jewish Museum Department”, the intention was to expand the old museum that was dedicated to ...

May 2015, will be remembered in Milan as the month the Rondanini Pietà finally found a proper home. Indeed, after years of debate, the masterpiece by Michelangelo has been relocated to a new museum ...

At the 59th Venice Art Biennale, Italy presents an installation curated by Eugenio Viola and entitled ‘History of Night and Destiny of Comets’. For the first time, the Italian Pavilion presents the ...

CityLife is an urban development located in central Milan that, among other buildings, includes two residential complexes, one designed by Daniel Libeskind and the other by Zaha Hadid. I present here ...