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1 month ago | 
abitare.it | Leonardo Lella
Just over the threshold, a flowerbed. Which extends into the patio adjacent to the living room, marking its perimeter. It’s one of the surprises introduced by the architects of Spaceagency, an Australian practice that was commissioned to intervene in a factory built in the 1930s in North Fremantle. Disused for some time, the structure, originally devoted to the production of cereals, had already been subdivided into 13 flats in the early 1990s.
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1 month ago | 
abitare.it | Leonardo Lella
Promoting social interaction through large, open, bright and welcoming spaces. This is one of the guiding principles of the Danish studio 3XN Architects that was recently applied in a complex of offices and research spaces in Stockholm. The Forskaren Innovation Hub, which brings together the co-working, service and office facilities of large international companies in northern Sweden, was indeed designed with the comfort of its users in mind.
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1 month ago | 
abitare.it | Giuseppe Santonocito |Paola Carimati |Sara Banti |Leonardo Lella
The new issue of Abitare is on newsstands from tomorrow 26 February.
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2 months ago | 
abitare.it | Leonardo Lella
The System of Voids From the ancient Roman fora to the great Baroque and Umbertine piazzas, the urban fabric of Rome has always turned around a system of voids. Long neglected or done up in too hasty a fashion – often on the occasion of major events like the Olympics, the World Cup or Jubilees – these empty spaces of socialization have rarely been considered as a whole.
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Nov 26, 2024 | 
abitare.it | Silvia Icardi |Chiara Somajni |Beppe Finessi |Leonardo Lella
The new issue of Abitare is on newsstands from tomorrow27 November.
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Nov 21, 2024 | 
abitare.it | Leonardo Lella
“What is happening in Tirana is the effect of enormous energy at an individual, family and community level that is spreading out like a river, without a predetermined direction.” This is what Edi Rama, at the time the city’s mayor and today the prime minister of Albania, had to say in the pages of Abitare in July 2010 about the incredible period of urbanistic and architectural effervescence that Tirana was going through.
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Oct 31, 2024 | 
abitare.it | Leonardo Lella
It’s only just after 9 in the morning but the reception at CERN is already packed. Children on school trips, businessmen, busy members of staff. “It’s like this every morning,” confesses with some pride Patrick Geeraert, for over ten years a manager at the world’s biggest particle physics laboratory.
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Oct 29, 2024 | 
abitare.it | Giuseppe Santonocito |Leonardo Lella |Mario Piazza |Michele Calzavara
The new issue of Abitare is on newsstands from tomorrow 30 October.
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Oct 3, 2024 | 
abitare.it | Leonardo Lella
Alberto Campo Baeza – born in1946, emeritus professor at the ETSAM in Madrid – is perhaps one of the veryfew contemporary architects who accept the passage of time with serenity. Notonly his own time, but that of his architecture too. Surrounded by a team ofcollaborators who, as in the workshop of a Renaissance artist, listen to hiswords in silence, the Spanish designer looks back over his fifty-year-longcareer without nostalgia.
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Sep 23, 2024 | 
abitare.it | Leonardo Lella
It is normal for the clients of the Wespi de Meuron Romeo studio to be puzzled when faced with the first sketches. The residences designed by the Swiss trio are almost always set in sublime scenery, with breath-taking views of the foothills of the Alps, and yet have mostly blank fronts, with just a few well-located openings.
