Projects

One design theme that has always utterly charmed me is the love story between plants and architecture: this is the main subject of the project for Manifattura Tabacchi in Florence.

How can one tell a story that is Sicilian, Italian, Mediterranean, marine, and volcanic, just where the countryside is remarkably fertile but natural elements are so strong that it always

When we entered the design competition for the new Fendi specialised production hub in Capannuccia, with Studio Piuarch, despite its location in the picturesque Chianti region near Florence, the project

I love to design environments that are successfully productive and seductive in aesthetic, ecological and even metaphysical terms. When Dutch architect Geert Koster invited me to meet the owner of

I feel like I was party to two friends for encouraging them to buy as many as 19 hectares of land to build their villa and some annexes within a

We designed the Landscape of the new Snam Headquarters to make architecture and nature fall in each other’s arms, with the aim of connecting them and make them become so

When we first inspected it, the stretch of land where the house would be built was still just an abandoned vineyard, and even with pickets marking the house’s volume, it

Designing the landscape around, inside and over a four-buildings complex in Jaipur was a true dream for me, because I have enjoyed a special connection with the country ever since

Imagine receiving a call from someone for whom you have already created a pharaonic project (that he then sold), imagine him asking for a new project and starting off by

We are particularly fond of this public garden, because our Milano studio is just nearby in the same neighbourhood, and because we helped transform an ugly parking lot into a

It may sound impossible, but there is a direct connection between the Roccamare pine forest and Moscow – at least, for myself and architect Geert Koster there is one. We

Botanica Temporanea is a project that first started in 2003 with the aim of focussing on design applied to those neglected places that are colonised by plants and lend themselves

In early 2000, I received a postcard from friends who live in Lyon; it pictured the Castle of Chaumont and they had written: Où es-tu? – Where are you? It

Beyond the Tarots Garden, designed by artist Niki De Saint Phalle, the road leading to the Vulci Etruscan site gets narrower and narrower, and eventually becomes a dirt road. There,

Converting a piazza into a garden for one of the most avant-garde landscaping events (Arketipos 2019 – Maestri di Paesaggio) is definitely not easy, especially when the person asking is

When drawing, individual designers apply their own personal proportions, that may well be those that they assimilated in their imprinting, besides those of their bodies, and of the environment where