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Hospitality and reuse

Scattered hotel: reusing neighbourhood houses

In Palma de Mallorca, OHLAB brought together existing houses and a few new volumes to form a single neighbourhood hotel. This is no Spanish curiosity: it is the model we have seen working for years in Sicilian historic centres, where what already stands is the resource, not the obstacle.
9 November 2026
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Matter & Light

Ristrutturare togliendo, non aggiungendo

At Torre del Mare, on the Bergeggi headland, ATOMAA brought Casa Sorelle Sanpietro back to the form Mario Galvagni conceived in the Fifties. Not by adding, but by removing. It is a way of working we recognise as our own, and one that holds for any coastal house in the Mediterranean.
30 October 2026
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Interno di negozio con griglia modulare in acciaio spazzolato e luce radente sugli espositori
Retail spaces

Designing a shop that lasts over time

In September 2026, US retail sales rose 0.8%, above forecasts, according to ABC News. The physical store is not over. It is changing trade. And whoever designs one today has to think of it as a system that reconfigures itself, not as a set to be rebuilt every three years.
16 October 2026
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Casa isolana con intonaco a calce e loggia in ombra sul mare
Islands and territory

Island retrofit: what Ischia teaches us about building

Ischia has around 60,000 inhabitants, an earthquake in 2017 and a landslide in November 2022 still written into the landscape. Il Giornale dell'Architettura devoted a report to the island, closing on a clear argument: recover what exists, do not expand. This is the ground we work on every day.
14 October 2026
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Heritage and Reuse

Reusing historic buildings: what open heritage teaches

In late September Domus selected nine places of Italian architecture open during the FAI Autumn Days. Buildings that are normally closed. Nearly all of them survive for one reason only: someone uses them, maintains them, lives in them. That is where we start.
14 October 2026
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Cities and territory

Micro-architecture and the revival of southern villages

Il Giornale dell'Architettura has gathered ten years of micro-interventions in Sardinia, among them an urban living room built in 2024 in the main square of Esterzili. A few dozen square metres answering a vast problem: the depopulation of inland villages. A theme we know well.
13 October 2026
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Prior Ecclesia
Matter & Construction

Renovating a hospitality building by how it was built

The twelfth volume of the «Quaderni della costruzione» is out, devoted to the «I Grappoli» holiday village. It documents a technique rather than an image: stratigraphies, joints, materials. This is exactly the question we ask ourselves before opening a site in a hospitality building.
13 October 2026
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Investimenti immobiliari

Investing in Sicily: villas, luxury and hospitality

Investing in Sicily today means choosing between Palermo and the South Coast, between private villas and hospitality projects. It takes method: a controlled budget, a clear schedule, a site with no financial surprises.
22 September 2026
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