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Feb01

Small family run apartments

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This family-run belongings offers a central locating only 50m from the middle of San Rocco and a warmed and genial ambience. The Garni Francescato is a marvelous deciding for Italian skiing and  snow boarding holidays to Livigno. The hotel is ideally situated 80m from the near lift‚ edifice slopes and ski bus kibosh.

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Jan16

Amazing Illy Store

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This is a transitional shop in Milan, Italy designed by Caterina Tiazzoldi for the coffee brand Illy. The concept is conceived for a reconfigurable store, characterized by various modulations of a single element, a “cube” which is 45x45cm-squared base. Using a parametric device, it becomes manageable to manipulate the cube physical properties by editing depth, thickness, opacity, length besides explosions. The combinatory logic – inspired by genetic algorithms process – permits to perform through 3000 configurations of the same object.

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Jan15

MAM or Museum Alberto Martini

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Alberto Martini was an Italian painter, engraver, illustrator and graphic designer. Critics have described Martini’s range of creations from “elegant and epic” to “grotesque again macabre” and reckoned him one of the precursors of Surrealism. This museum is dedicated to the stirring artist and illustrator Alberto Martini who put his native town of Oderzo, Italy on the map.

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Jan15

Defying the paralysis of thinking and the imagination

Published by in Cities, Eating, Europe, Italy, Restaurants, Urban Tourism


Architects: Park Associati , Filippo Pagliani, Michele Rossi
Location: Milan, Piazza Duomo, Italy
Client: Electrolux Home Appliances Emea N.V
Design team: Lorenzo Merloni, Alessandro Rossi, Alexia Caccavella, Alice Cuteri, Fabio Calciati_Rendering
Area: 140 sq. m
Photographs: Andrea Martiradonna, Carol Kohen

The concept is to build a small piece of architecture, a cabin, perhaps a nest, on high, at the top of a cliff, on a monument, on a public building, it doesn’t matter where but in a resplendent location and with an original and spectacular view. The idea is to create a restaurant that offers its clients an enchanting, unique atmosphere with sophisticated dishes cooked in Electrolux kitchens. The idea is to keep it open for six months and then change location on top of important monuments and amazing locations, change city, nation, continent and reinstate this restaurant-type object on some other roof for new surprises, in addition menus, new clients.

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Jan06

Wonderful atmosphere of serenity

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The Hotel Castel Gandolfo is exclusive few metres from the apostolical fort, and from its flat which play the lake it is gettable to apprise a panorama of extraordinary example. Since 1597 this has been the Poet’s summer abode and the gardens of the papal castle hold the ruins of Domiziano’s italian revolutionist
Castel Gandolfo is 15 miles (24 kilometers) southeastern of Roma and the finest way, if you bonk the choice, is by car – then you can repulse comfortably around the lake and villages.

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Jan03

A Excellent Tourist Attraction

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Fenis towers, crenellated battlements, remove fortresses perched upon unsmooth crags, humanities ruins, sumptuous palazzos and such much.
Fenis Manse (Italian- Castello di Fenis) is an Romance nonmodern defense settled in the port of Fenis, not far from Aosta. It is among the most famous castles in Aosta Depression, as well as for its striking architecture and its umpteen towers and fancy walls has embellish one of individual politician traveler attractions of the region. The byzantine artifact of the residence Fenis was actually for combat a nonmodern defense, which was stacked concentrically around the intrinsical curtilage.

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Jan03

Castello Sforzesco is a real castle of 13th century

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The Castello Sforzesco (or Sforza Castle) is a large, classically crenellated pile of red-brick masonry on the occidental urgency of middlemost Milan. The manse was collective by the originally Filmmaker dynasty, but became domicile to the judgement Sforza association in 1450. Leonardo da Vinci helped program the attitude walls.

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Dec10

One of the world’s best looking libraries

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Located in Perugia – a town known more for its plethora of old churches that its modern-retro architecture, only 200 km north of Rome, Italy, the Perugian library takes the shape of a large disc presents itself as a foreign object. This is one incredible library similar to the optimistic 1980s vision of the extra-terrestrial ET. Designed by architecture studio Italo Rota, the interior of the library resembles a cross between a dot-com office and the 13 year old girl’s room – colorful couches and pastel book shelves mix with the pink-hued light produced by the glass walls. Its form and use of color, its transparency during the daytime, and the light it emits at night create a new landscape. You should visit this library at night, when the bright round shape of the library building looks other-worldly.

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Dec07

Adorned in marble, mirrors and crystal chandeliers..

Published by in Europe, Fitness&Gym, Hotels, Italy, Photos, Relaxing, Swimming

The B4 Verona Leon d’Oro by Boscolo Hotel enjoys an excellent position in the viscus of Verona. Situated closemouthed to the statesman sites and attractions of this wonderful port, lucullan in history, civilization and art, the B4 Metropolis Metropolis d’Oro by Boscolo Hotel is one of its myriad treasures.

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Dec07

The hotel is really 3 star

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Visitors can conceive betterment in Verona at the San Marco Hotel Verona, which is set rightful extracurricular the ancient metropolis walls of City (which isolable the old municipality eye from the newer parts of the municipality.) Guests are within locomotion interval of ancient churches, buildings, a Papistic coliseum, Juliet’s balcony, and the shopping and edifice district.
Buses stopover rightish in face of the hotel to assert you to City’s past midpoint, 4 km away.

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