Tiled façades, Milanese style

The façade of a building in Milan's city centre has been renovated using a classic solution with a touch of innovation: cladding the façade with three-dimensional green tiles

Blessing boutiques, tiled fashion bunkers that pay tribute to Superstudio

Carmine Abate has designed two clothing boutiques in Naples and Castellammare di Stabia where Italian ceramic tiles become the central focus of the interior design project

Scandi-chic with a Mediterranean touch

This is the stylistic mix adopted for the two new US showrooms recently opened by Copenhagen-based clothing brand Ganni. The project combined a careful choice of materials with cheerful, lively colours in keeping with the brand's signature style while maintaining Scandinavian tradition and green credentials

A New Life

In Berlin, a place with a grim past has been reinvented with colourful design and natural spaces

The first hydrospinning centre in Italy

A trendy location in the heart of Milan combining water-based exercise and wellness.

A gastronomic store and restaurant in Bolzano

The synaesthesia between food and cooking provided the inspiration for this renovation and expansion project in an 18th century building in the centre of Bolzano

Child’s play

The interior design firm Fateeva Design made good use of the technical and aesthetic qualities of ceramic tiles in an apartment renovation project in central Kiev, Ukraine.

New look for Coop’s Tuscan shopping centres

The Coop's refurbished shopping centres in Siena, Poggibonsi, Castelfiorentino, Borgo San Lorenzo and Agliana are all signed by Milanese architects Lombardini22, who also set new general guidelines for refurbishing and upgrading the Coop's structures and image.

A Mediterranean hideaway

The Limoncello Rooms Bed & Breakfast in Salerno uses ceramic and other media to paint itself in the colours of sunshine and citrus fruit

Room Mate Giulia, the new “design hotel” by Patricia Urquiola

This highly original hotel is located only a stone's throw from the Vittorio Emanuele II gallery and Milan cathedral. Guests enjoy the use of 85 rooms, a spa, a relaxation area and a fitness centre, all finished in a modern yet vintage interpretation of Milan's great design tradition

A mini-loft full of surprises

A miracle! A young Milanese architect has squeezed into just 15 square metres everything you could possibly need to live: kitchen, table, bed, shower and wardrobe. It's all a matter of fit!ssss

A resort in harmony with nature

The characteristics of the local landscape have inspired the design of the Villaverde Hotel & Resort Wellness Spa & Golf in Fagagna

Little Shoes in Barcelona guides children’s first steps

Opened in 2015 to a design by Nábito architects, the children's footwear store has a luminous, uncluttered style in which everything is made with its young customers in mind

At home on the Rive Gauche

A roomy, luminous Parisian apartment in a 19th century building has been chosen by a fashion designer and art collector as her new home in the French capital.

Having fun at school

A new school campus built in the town of Capellen, Luxemburg is experimenting with innovative educational architecture designed to make learning fun. Starting out from the cheerful and highly functional ceramic tiles

Miami Art Deco comes back to life in a Jesolo five star hotel

In the heart of the Veneto coast, a fascinating luxury hotel welcomes its guests with the Thirties and Forties style of Miami

A very modern classic

An apartment in Turin invents rigorous spaces and volumes in a homage to rationalist architecture and metaphysical painting. But without renouncing strong, broad colours. Starting in the bathroom

Fragments of sky blue

Water surfaces and ceramic waves create a multicoloured floor covering in the swimming, leisure and relaxation areas of the Uherské HradištE water park

Shopping in the shadow of Mount Etna

Built near Catania, the "Centro Sicilia" shopping centre is an eloquent example of the power of modern architecture

Ceramic tile makes a stylish comeback

The remodelling project for the old Sopot railway station

Colours for growth

The design of the new Casa dei Bambini (Children's House) in Milan, a Montessori school in which education starts with the built environment, is based on the use of colour

A metropolitan style

A business complex in Milan combines a piazza with office spaces

An archipelago of colour in Milan

The New Cittiglio Paediatric Unit breaks out of the mould of the classic hospital ward

The pride and joy of Soweto

Designed by young architects from the local practice Afritects, the Soweto Theatre carries on the great theatrical and musical tradition of South Africa

Camper Stores by Tomás Alonso

The personal style of the young Spanish designer at the Camper stores in Genoa, London and Glasgow

Colour Theraphy

Ceramic tiles in four different colours have been installed in the Turin rehabilitation centre Fisio&Lab

A joyful education

A spirit of light and joy radiates from the San Giuseppe nursery school in Peraga di Vigonza (province of Padua), built in accordance with modern educational principles

Urban colour therapy

Turin. With minimalism in crisis, sensitivity to the creative use of colour may prove an ethically sustainable choice

When curves take centre stage

At Rivoli Terme (Ra), a renovated and expanded hotel school is part of a boldly contemporary project in keeping with the spirit of the times.

Institutional Street Art

In the southern Italian city of Bari, the use of "legally approved" Italian graffiti on a library façade provides an example of student participation in the creation of a shared identity between teachers and pupils

On a child’s scale

The project for the new paediatric centre in Florence proposes cutting-edge environmental sustainability solutions