Italian Coffee and Italian Design tastes good and looks good
BIG SEE Talks with Seidl Florian, Lavazza’s design manager Q: Lavazza has a long tradition in coffee. How does the Elogy Barista project reflect the company's evolution and future vision? A:
Focus Italy: Peter Pichler on the Future of Sustainable Industrial Offices – The Bonfiglioli HQ Story
3 Questions for Peter Pichler I believe the future of sustainable design in industrial buildings lies in the more efficient use of space, the reuse of existing structures, and
Focus Italy: Antonio Aricò in Dialogue with Hands and Heart
BIG SEE Talks with Antonio Aricò Q: Your pieces often feel joyful and whimsical. Do you approach design primarily as serious work, or is a sense of play an essential
Focus Italy: Mosca Bianca Workshop – Exploring Sustainable Design with Atelier Architettura Chinello Morandi
3 Questions for Nicolò Chinello & Rodolfo Morandi The workshops of the future don’t need to hide away; rather, they aim to elevate the artisan’s work as an expression
Focus Italy: The Meditative Design of PIANO
BIG SEE Talks with Serafini Q: PIANO transforms the idea of a washbasin into a sculptural statement. What was the initial inspiration, and how did your collaboration with BUDDE shape
Focus Italy: Inside Park Associati’s Adaptive Reuse of Milan’s Agricultural Consortium for Contemporary Student Living
3 Questions for Michele Rossi In contemporary design, memory can serve as both anchor and catalyst. Q: How did you imagine the balance between preserving history and designing
Focus Italy: Coney and the Joy of Everyday Design
BIG SEE Talks with Pedrali Q: Coney really looks “chairful”. How do you design something that feels so playful, while still being durable and functional? A: Paraphrasing our beloved
Focus Italy: PPD Architetti on Ricupaglia – A Dialogue Between Past and Future in Tuscan Architecture
3 Questions for Valeria Presicci & Carlo Pantanella D'Ettorre Ricupaglia breaks with static interpretations of rural homes by respecting heritage and transforming it into an open, material-rich, and sustainable
Focus Italy: Architecture as a Powerful Tool for Learning and Belonging – Liceo Montale Pontedera
3 Questions for Colucci & Partners Breaking away from traditional layouts required us to constantly balance innovation with functionality, ensuring that the spaces would support new pedagogical approaches while remaining
Focus Italy: Clay, an artistic soul embodied in an armchair
BIG SEE Talks with Patrizia Moroso, Art Director of Moroso Q: Clay continues the material experimentation seen in earlier projects. What drew you to ceramics for this piece? A: Clay's project, the
Focus Italy: Focus Italy: Landscape, Memory, and Motion at the NDSM Lusthof
About the Project Gardening is an earthly endeavour, where choices are made daily between keeping and removing, responding to the weather, soil conditions, the seasons, as well as one’s desires, and
Focus Italy: NOA Architects on Balancing Sustainability and Heritage in Museumstraße 42 Project
3 Questions for Andreas Profanter We firmly believe that our role as architects is to regenerate abandoned urban plots, keeping in mind that is essential to increase density and
Focus Italy: Designing the Future with Tradition – Mario Cucinella Architects’ Vision for the Italian Pavilion at Expo 2025
BIG SEE Asks: 3 Questions to Mario Cucinella Architects The Pavilion is a meeting point between two cultures, where the language of design becomes a shared space for memory, emotion,
Focus Italy: Ministudio Architetti on Minimalism and Architectural Elegance
3 Questions for Ilaria Cargiolli & Barbara Bacigalupo We’re used to think about minimal spaces as empty and cold shells but it doesn’t have to be that way.
We Might Not Need a Building: Alper Derinboğaz in Conversation with Jurij Ličen
BIG SEE Talks is a series of intimate, unfiltered conversations between architects - not just about buildings, but about how we think, live, and imagine our future environments. In this edition, architect Jurij
How to Build Cities for People? A Conversation Between Alper Derinboğaz and Alexis Şanal
In May 2025, the BIG Architecture event in Portorož brought together renowned architects and thinkers from across Europe and beyond. Among the distinguished speakers were two prominent Turkish architects: Alper Derinboğaz and Alexis
TOP 10 Innovation Premieres at BIG Architecture 2025
Selected by architects at the Trade Show in Portorož The BIG Architecture Trade Show 2025 in Portorož (May 22–23) once again reaffirmed its purpose: to bring meaningful innovation closer to those who
Focus Austria: How Stöckler Gruber Architekten Transform a 1960s School into a Future-Oriented Space
The Volksschule Andelsbuch project largely preserves the existing building structure and, together with the kindergarten extension to the northeast, forms an ensemble of three above-ground volumes. The existing classrooms are particularly notable for
Focus Austria: Where Premium Optics Meet Playful Minds
The SWAROVSKI OPTIK MY Junior binoculars were designed by formquadrat and specifically tailored to the needs, proportions, and preferences of children—while staying true to the premium values and visual identity of SWAROVSKI
Focus Austria: Two Bridges Connecting Old and New – Training Pool Großfeldsiedlung in Vienna
The swimming facility in the Viennese Großfeldsiedlung – originally constructed in the early 1980s – has been partially refurbished and expanded to include a new indoor training pool for school and club sports.