Dezeen promotion: a group of students from Amsterdam's Dirty Art Department have created interactive installations to occupy a building in an abandoned area of Milan during the city's design week (+ slideshow). More
Italian artist Edoardo Tresoldi has used wire to recreate an early Christian church on an archaeological site in Siponto, a port town in southern Italy (+ slideshow). More
Venice Architecture Biennale 2016: pavilions that host exhibitions for the Venice Biennale are boarded up for six months every year, and Dutch studio RAAAF thinks a better solution would be to cover each one with a veil of fabric. More
Wall panels fold up to create tables for this cafe in Sicily, which Italian architect Giuseppe Gurrieri created by converting the old ticket office of a sports arena (+ slideshow). More
Movie: in this exclusive movie, Moroso creative director Patrizia Moroso gives Dezeen a personal behind-the-scenes tour of the furniture brand's factory in Italy. More
Dezeen promotion: entries are now open for architects and designers to submit ideas for reviving a forgotten island in the Venetian Lagoon by transforming it into a university campus (+ slideshow). More
Haunches of ham are displayed in rows behind the glazed facade of this semi-underground prosciutto factory, which sits beneath a grassy roof in Italy's hilly Umbrian countryside (+ slideshow). More
The space at the heart of this rusting steel memorial narrows to a width of just 80 centimetres, designed to make visitors empathise with the "feeling of oppression" experienced by Holocaust victims (+ slideshow). More
A panoramic window surrounded by a faceted wood and corrugated copper frame dominates the facade of this Alpine residence by Camillo Botticini Architetto (+ slideshow). More
These homes designed by Studio Macola sit within the shell of an old factory in Venice, which still features a trio of tall industrial chimneys (+ slideshow). More
A faceted red surface creates geometric patterns across the exterior of this house in southern Italy that architect Giacomo Garziano has renovated for his parents (+ slideshow). More
Green-coloured subway tiles are paired with lemon-yellow shelving inside skincare brand Aesop's second Milan branch, recently completed by locally based Dimore Studio (+ slideshow). More
Inside Festival 2015: Massimo d'Alessandro explains how his studio MdAA transformed an old stable into an apartment by creating a treehouse-like room raised from the floor on a single column (+ movie). More
Curators Edouard Cabay and Margherita Del Grosso led a workshop during the New Generations architecture festival in Genoa to produce this wooden installation resembling the shapes of ship sails (+ slideshow). More
White concrete volumes protrude from this house in central Italy, which features a bamboo-filled courtyard and a subterranean swimming pool (+ slideshow). More
A cruciform facade marks the new entrance to this art museum, which occupies a 15th-century monastery building near Venice, Italy (+ slideshow). More
British architect David Chipperfield has refused to attend the opening of his Museo delle Culture museum and gallery complex in Milan, and is seeking court action over "defects" in the project. More
Italian fashion house Fendi has moved into its new headquarters at Rome's Palazzo della Civiltà Italiana – a building commissioned by dictator Benito Mussolini in 1943 that has been renovated by local architect Marco Costanzi (+ slideshow). More
Italian design office Make That Studio has unveiled a jug based on the water-smoothed shapes of riverbed pebbles (+ slideshow). More
Amsterdam studio Formafantasma used lengths of translucent plastic to create "infinite loops" around the catwalk for fashion label Sportmax during Milan Fashion Week. More