Bumpy terracotta tiles clad the gabled volume of this combined artist's studio and family home in the Italian countryside designed by Studio Zero85 (+ slideshow). More
A glazed channel steps around the facade this office block in Rome by Italian firms Modostudio and Sofia Cattinari Studio di Architettura, revealing the ascent of two staircases (+ slideshow). More
News: engineering firm Arup has unveiled concept designs for a new football stadium with a removable roof for Italian football club AC Milan. More
Using a custom-designed structure suited to extreme conditions, Italian studio LEAPfactory has constructed a new building for a ski and snowboard school beside the highest mountain in the Alps (+ slideshow). More
News: Prada's art foundation has announced its new venue by OMA's research arm AMO will open this May, featuring a bar designed by film director Wes Anderson. More
Italian design brand Driade has officially opened its new Milan showroom by David Chipperfield Architects – one of the British architect's first projects as the company's artistic director (+ slideshow). More
News: Italian design school Domus Academy has recruited leading creatives – including Patricia Urquiola, Joseph Grima, Hans Ulrich Obrist and Alice Rawsthorn – to form a panel that will help the school "revolutionise" its teaching (+ interview). More
Mirrors create a reflective facade on this pair of holiday homes in the South Tyrolean Dolomites, but have been coated with a glare-reducing film to help prevent bird collisions (+ slideshow). More
News: Ma Yansong's Beijing studio MAD has been granted permission to drastically remodel a 1970s block in Rome, to create a residential complex featuring tree-covered terraces and translucent metallic walls. More
News: these new images show the interiors and exteriors of David Chipperfield's soon-to-complete museum and gallery complex in a converted steel factory in Milan (+ slideshow). More
News: Italian furniture brand Driade has appointed British architect David Chipperfield as its artistic director, a year after it was rescued from financial collapse. More
Italian studio Massimo Galeotti Architetto has filled in the empty corner of a house in Treviso with a timber-clad extension to provide space for a new music room (+ slideshow). More
News: the editor of one of Italy's leading design magazines has denied that her country's industry is in decline and believes that "Milan is still the international capital of design" (+ interview). More
Visitors to Venice's Palazzo Grassi become immersed within a space that appears to have no boundaries in an installation created by American artist Doug Wheeler in the gallery's atrium (+ slideshow). More
Behind the dark facades of these farmhouse-inspired cabins in northern Italy, designed by local studio Pedevilla Architects, is a pair of bright homes that combine traditional elements with modern detailing (+ slideshow). More
Italian studios ES-arch and Consalez Rossi Architetti Associati have added a timber guest house with an angular zinc roof to a villa in the Madesimo ski resort (+ slideshow). More
A cantilevered glass-walled room lights up at night to create a beacon on top of this kindergarten in the Tuscan town of Sinalunga by Siena firm Studio di Architettura Andrea Milani (+ slideshow). More
Oak chevron patterns the walls of this minimal concept store in northern Italy by Archiplan Studio (+ slideshow). More
Shards of glazing frame views of the distant mountains from the apartments inside this angular attic extension in northern Italy, designed by Plasma Studio (+ slideshow). More
Italian office Modostudio has completed a shingle-clad building boasting mountain views for a private arts and sciences foundation near Bolzano, northern Italy (+ slideshow). More