Gianfranco Crisci The surgery is inconspicuous, sober and lasting. The project does not impose itself on places, but is a part of it, in an intrinsic and coherent way. For the flooring we investigated the local and consolidated solutions, which make use of river pebbles and splitted paving. It was preferred to use a stone…
After graduating in architecture in 1983 with Professor Fabio Reinhart, he collaborated first with the architecture firm Sergio Calori, then with the architects Marco d’Azzo and Misha Groh and finally, in 2000, he opened his own architecture firm in Agno. . For Giulio, each project is a set of emotions and forms, which express themselves…
Gianfranco Crisci The surgery is inconspicuous, sober and lasting. The project does not impose itself on places, but is a part of it, in an intrinsic and coherent way. For the flooring we investigated the local and consolidated solutions, which make use of river pebbles and splitted paving. It was preferred to use a stone…
Gianfranco Crisci The project is aimed at the restoration of a villa of the late nineteenth century and of various appurtenances. For the villa, the demolition of all the volumes built in the seventies and the reconstruction and reorganization of the demolished volume are expected, with the intention of bringing out the lake front and…
“How do you know how to do it?” “We must try to imagine it!” – R.M. Pirsig, Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance Itinerant architect, he worked in German Switzerland, Sardinia and now in Ticino. His curiosity pushes him to want to investigate and understand the character and quality of places before venturing an…
Hamos Meneghelli Centro Lugano Sud Grancia Design 2018 – Realization 2018-2019 OBJECT AND PLACE Since 1991, the Lugano Sud Center is one of the most popular shopping centers in Ticino and attracts visitors from both Switzerland and Northern Italy. Built in two successive phases, after several years of activity the management has changed its corporate…
Davide Macullo The land is home to the two residential buildings located in an extraordinary position on the delta of the Mara river, overlooking Lake Lugano. The project idea takes advantage of this particular condition to mark this place through a new building and complete a missing urban piece. The construction is divided into two…
Johnny Conte The costumer’s wish was to have a large home that would open towards a generous private garden space. Since the site’s dimensions are relatively limited, in order to have a large external area, the higher floor has been realized vast and protruding from the ground floor. The volume of the higher floor seems…
After graduating as an architect from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich in 1995, he travelled for three years, one year to Southeast Asia and two years to Australia, during the last of which he worked in an architectural firm in Townsville. On his return to Switzerland in 1998, Johnny Conte began his…
March 2019 Location: Haute Nendaz Customer: Interhome Goal: Show happy family spending great holidays in an Interhome home. Participants: Art Director: Alessandro Gatsis Assistant Director: Stuart Unwin-Smith Photographer: Alexandre Zveiger Assistant: Luca Tumminello Models: Gina, Spyros, Arghyro e Kyveli. I begin by thanking Alessandro who gave me the opportunity to do this photoshooting for…
