Italian Architecture Designs : Buildings in Italy
Key Architectural Projects in southern Europe. Built Environment images.
post updated 6 November 2026
We choose key examples of Italian Architecture Designs. e-architect try to cover completed buildings, new building designs and architecture competitions across Italy.
Our website focus is on contemporary Italian buildings, but information on traditional Italian buildings is also welcome.
We have 5 pages of Italian Architecture selections.
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Italian Architecture in major cities : news + key projects
Italian Architecture Designs in major cities : A-Z (this page)
Italian Building Designs outside major cities : A-Z (this page)
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Italian Architecture Designs
Modern Italian Building Designs, alphabetical:
ANCONA
Raffaelo Sanzio Airport
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Design: Gerkan, Marg & Partners
BERGAMO
ELAV Kitchen & Beer, Bergamo, Northwest Italy
Architects: Francesca Perani architetta / Marg Studio Annalisa Grasselli – Matteo Rota
photograph : Francesca Perani
ELAV Kitchen & Beer
San Michele Arcangelo, near Bergamo, north west Italy – 3D documentation in the restoration of historic buildings
San Michele Arcangelo
BOLOGNA
Campus KID schools complex
Design: Mario Cucinella Architects
photo : Walter Vecchio
Campus KID San Lazzaro Bologna
Bonfiglioli Headquarters, Calderara Di Reno, Bologna, Emilia-Romagna region, Northern Italy
Design: Peter Pichler Architecture
photo : Gustav Willeit
Bonfiglioli Headquarters
Facade of Basilica San Petronio – Wall as a Center, Bologna, Emilia Romagna, North-central Italy
Design: Inter-Esse Studio
image © IES
Basilica San Petronio, Bologna
Bologna Civic Offices
Design: Mario Cucinella Architects
Bologna Civic Offices
Technology Center Bologna
Design: gmp Architects
Technology Center Bologna
BOLZANO
Art Park in Bolzano, northern Italy
Design: OAM Architecture
Art Park in Bolzano
Blaas Bolzano, northern Italy
Architects: monovolume architecture+design
Blaas Bolzano
Bolzano building
Design: Chapman Taylor + Claudio Lucchin
Bolzano building
Giacomuzzi Building, Bolzano, ne Italy
Architects: monovolume architecture+design
Giacomuzzi, Caldaro
Nuovo Palazzo Provincia di Bolzano
Design: OFL architecture
Nuovo Palazzo Provincia di Bolzano
Salewa Spa Headquarters, northern Italy
Park Associati – Cino Zucchi Architetti
Salewa Spa Headquarters
CAGLIARI
Nuragic and Contemporary Art Museum, Cagliari, Sardinia
Zaha Hadid Architects
New Italian Architecture
FIRENZE – FLORENCE
Furla Headquarters, Tavarnelle Val di Pesa, Florence, Tuscany
Architects: GEZA Architettura
Furla Headquarters, Tavarnelle Val di Pesa
Artwood Showroom, Castelfiorentino
LDA.iMdA architects
Artwood Showroom Florence
Florence TAV Station
Foster + Partners
Florence Railway Station
Scandicci New Centre
Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners
Scandicci New Centre
University Hall of Residence, Novoli
c+s associati
Student Housing Florence
New Italian Building Designs
Contemporary Italian Building Designs, alphabetical:
Modern Italian Architecture Developments, alphabetical:
GENOA
MILANO – MILAN
Duomo di Milano, P.za del Duomo
photo : Stephen Welch
Milano CityLife District
photo : Stephen Welch
Generali Tower Building in Milan
Casa Calipso, via Tolstoi 87
Design: Degli Esposti Architetti
photo : Maurizio Montagn
Casa Calipso
Nutura Pavilion at the Fuori Salone, Università degli studi di Milano, Via Festa del Perdono 7
image courtesy of architects practice
Nutura Pavilion by Benedetta Tagliabue – EMBT Architects at the Fuori Salone
Hotel NH Collection Milano CityLife, CityLife area, Milan
Restoration Design: QuattroAssociati
photo : Pianca&Partners
Alba Milan
Ian Ritchie Architects
Milan structure
B5 Building for RCS Mediagroup
Barreca & La Varra, Architects
B5 Building Milan
MedaTeca Building, Meda, near Milan
Alterstudio Partners
MedaTeca Building
Milano Santa Giulia
Foster + Partners
Milano Santa Giulia
Milan hotel towers
Dominique Perrault
Milan hotel towers
Milanofiori North Buildings
Erick van Egeraat
Milan business park
New Trade Fair Building
Massimiliano e Doriana Fuksas Architects
New Trade Fair Milan
One of the largest buildings in Europe.
University Luigi Bocconi – Winner: World Architecture Festival Awards 2008
Grafton Architects
MODENA
NAPOLI – NAPLES
Piscina Mirabilis contemporary art museum
Architects: Vazio S/A, Brasil
image courtesy of architecture firm
Piscina Mirabilis contemporary art museum
Pompeii Maximall, near Pompeii
Architects: Design International
image courtesy of architects office
Pompeii Maximal Shopping Resort
Afragola Station, Napoli, southern Italy
Design: Zaha Hadid Architects
photograph : Jacopo Splimbergo
Afragola Station in Napoli
Naples Subway Station – Università Station at Metropolitana di Napoli
Design: Karim Rashid ; Architect of Record: Atelier Mendini
photo : Peppe Avallone for M.N. Metropolitana di Napoli S.p.A., all rights reserved
Naples Subway Station Building
Università Station at Metropolitana di Napoli
Design: Karim Rashid ; Architect of Record: Atelier Mendini
photo : Iwan Baan
Università Station at Metropolitana di Napoli
Monte S Angelo Metro entrances + tunnel link
Amanda Levete Architects + Anish Kapoor
Naples Subway Building
ORVIETO
WW2 Aircraft Hangar
1939
Pier Luigi Nervi
PADUA
PiaveFutur Social and Economic Sciences Campus, Padua
Design: David Chipperfield Architects Milan
image Courtesy architecture office
PiaveFutur Campus Building in Padua
Memoria e Luce 9/11 Memorial
2004-05
Studio Libeskind
PERUGIA
Art Museum Strongoli
COOP HIMMELB(L)AU
Calabrian architecture
New Urban Quarter – project, Montyeluce
2007-
Bolles Wilson
Architecture Competition win
REGGIO EMILIA
Reggio Emilia Developments
RIMINI
Rimini Architecture
ROMA – ROME
Rome Architecture – capital of Italy
New Electa Bookshop in Colosseo
Design: Italian architecture office Migliore+Servetto
photo : Andrea Martiradonna
Electa Bookshop in the Colosseum
New educational hub at the LUISS Guido Carli University
Architects: Alvisi Kirimoto and Studio Gemma
photo © Marco Cappelletti
LUISS Guido Carli University
Villa Pamphili Hotel Building Renewal
Architects: Dexter Moren Associates
image © Dexter Moren Associates
Villa Pamphili Hotel
Apple Via Del Corso, Palazzo Marignoli, Via del Corso 181-188
Architects: Foster + Partners
photo courtesy of architects office
Apple Via Del Corso Rome Store
Rome Colosseum Floor Plan
photo courtesy Dario Franceschini
Colosseum Rome
Maximo Shopping Center in Rome
Architects: Design International
photo : Paolo Cammillucci
Piazza Tevere, by Tiber River
Design: Ballman Khapalova
image : Ballman Khapalova
Piazza Tevere
Active House Rome LIVE Living, EUR district
Design: studio IT’S, Architects
render © It’s – Marco Tripodi
Active House Rome, LIVE Living EUR
Ara Pacis Museum
Design: Richard Meier Architects
Ara Pacis Museum
Rome’s new mayor announced in April 2008 his intention to destroy the museum by Richard Meier that was only completed in 2006. Mayor Gianni Alemanno claimed it isn’t his top priority though.
British Embassy Building
Design: Basil Spence Architect
British Embassy Rome Building
The Embassy building at Rome’s Porta Pia was designed by the British architect Sir Basil Spence, and opened in 1971. It is a two-storey, square plan building, supported on pilotti (pillars) and built around a courtyard.
MAXXI : National Contemporary Arts Centre
Design: Zaha Hadid Architects
MAXXI
The MAXXI_Museum is the first national museum dedicated to contemporary creativity, designed as a multidisciplinary space for experimentation and innovation in arts and architecture by ZHA. The complex houses two institutions: MAXXI Arte (Director Anna Mattirolo) and MAXXI Architecture (Director Margherita Guccione), aiming to promote art and architecture through collection, conservation, study and exhibition of contemporary works.
Piazza Augusteo : Italian Rationalist design
Design: Luigi Moretti; V. Ballio-Morpugo
Piazza Augusteo buildings
Music Auditoria
Design: Renzo Piano Building Workshop (RPBW)
Music Complex Rome
Palazzetto dello Sport
Design: Pier Luigi Nervi
Palazzetto dello Sport
Stadio Olympico
Design: Annibale Vitellozzi
Stadio Olympico Roma
Stazione Termini
Design: various architects
Rome Railway Station
TORINO – TURIN
Architecture in Turin
Domino, Turin, north west Italy
Design: MARC
Domino Turin
A big web-marketing agency moves into a conventional four-storey building out of the city center. It promotes a contest among design offices, asking an architecture able to represent and strengthen the identity of its immaterial work, without relying on predictable cyberpunk or – worse – high-tech languages.
House in Mathi, Turin, north west Italy
MARC
House in Mathi
Tosetto Weigmann & Associates, Turin
MARC
Tosetto Weigmann & Associates
URBINO
Urbino Developments
VENEZIA – VENICE
Venetian Buildings
Jesolo Magica complex
Design: Zaha Hadid Architects
Jesolo Magica Venice Buildings
Jesolo Lido Village Buildings
Design: Richard Meier & Partners, Architects LLP
Jesolo Lido Village
New Mestre Hospital Building
Design: Studio Altieri Spa
New Mestre Hospital Building
Nursery School Building, Treviso
Design: C+S Associati
Nursery School Treviso
Quarto Ponte sul Canal Grande
Design: Santiago Calatrava
Grand Canal Bridge Venice
Serpentine Building, Treviso, Veneto
D+R dipiuerre architettura
Serpentine Building Treviso
TMCC cultural centre Building
C+S Associati
Venetian cultural centre
Water Filtration Plant
C+S Associati
Depuratore San Erasmo
The wave, Entrance of the 60th Film Festival
Design: C+S Associati
The Wave Venice Building
VERONA
New Surgery Centre, City of Verona Borgo Trento Maggiore Hospital, Veneto
Studio Altieri
Verona Borgo Trento Maggiore Hospital
The original nucleus of the Borgo Trento Hospital Complex, in Verona, was the Alessandri Children’s Hospital, which was inaugurated in 1914 and comprised a single line of buildings looking onto the current Via Mameli. In 1942 the buildings comprising the expanded hospital system were inaugurated, being situated in the area to the south-west of the Alessandri hospital.
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Italian Buildings – No Images
Italian Architecture Designs in major cities : A-J
Bologna City Council Headquarters, Bologna
2005-09
Mario Cucinella
Café Mangiarebere Wine Bar, Catania, Sicily
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Studio Maria Giuseppina / Grasso Cannizzo
Italian building award : RIBA Awards 2005
Casa del Fascio, Como
1934
Giuseppe Terragni
Casa Malaparte, Capri
1940
Adalberto Libera & Curzio Malaparte
Civic Theatre, Verbania
2007-
Crab Studio (Peter Cook + Gavin Robotham) with Salvador Perez Arroyo & Bargone Associati
Architecture competition win
Domus Radicalis, Bolzano
2007
METROGRAMMA
Mies van der Rohe Awards 2009 Nominee
Ferrari Research Centre, Maranello
2001-03
Massimiliano Fuksas Architects
Food Container Remixed, Fermo
2008
Spacelab Architects
Grappa Nardini, Vicenza
2002-04
Massimiliano Fuksas Architects
Historical Archive and Library of Palermo
2007
Studio Italo Rota
House, Innichen, San Candido
2008
Plasma Studio
Hypo Alpe Adria Bank Headquarters Building, Udine
2007
Morphosis Architects
Il Kilometro Rosso-Brembo Headquarters, Bergamo
2008
Ateliers Jean Nouvel
Mies van der Rohe Awards 2009 Nominee
Library of Nembro – Biblioteca comunale, Bergamo
2007
Archea Associati
Mies van der Rohe Awards 2009 Nominee
Max Mara Headquarters
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John McAslan + Partners
RIBA Awards 2005
Museion – Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Bolzano
2008
KSV Krüger Schuberth Vandreike
Mies van der Rohe Awards 2009 Nominee
Museu Canoviano, Possagno
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Carlo Scarpa
Museo d’Arte Moderna, Trento
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Mario Botta
Palace of Justice, Salerno
1999-2008
David Chipperfield Architects
Palazzo d’oro, Montesarchio – Benevento
2007
gambardellarchitetti
Mies van der Rohe Awards 2009 Nominee
Park Albatros camping, San Vicenzo, Livorno
2005-07
Archea Associati
Pius IX Library – Biblioteca Pio IX, Natzweiler-Struthof
2007
King Roselli Architetti
Mies van der Rohe Awards 2009 Nominee
Ravello auditorium
Date: 2003-
Design: Oscar Niemeyer Architect
£13m approximate building construction cost
Reggio Nell’Emilia Central Motorway Bridge, Reggio Emilia
Date built: 2007
Santiago Calatrava
San Giacomo Parish Complex, Foligno
Date built: 2008
Massimiliano and Doriana Fuksas
San Paolo Parish Complex of Foligno, Umbria, central Italy
Date built: 2009
San Paolo Parish Complex Foligno
Sesto San Giovanni – Apartment block
Date built: 1950
Giancarlo De Carlo
Stone House, Tavole
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Herzog & de Meuron
Twin Complex – Piccola Perrera + Fitzcarraldo,Grammichele, Catania, Sicily
2007
NOWA (NavarraOfficeWalkingArchitecture)
Mies van der Rohe Awards 2009 Nominee
University Hospital of Santa Chiara redevelopment, Santa Chiara, Pisa
2007
David Chipperfield Architects
Architecture Competition win
More New Italian architecture designs online soon.
Location: Italy, Southern Europe.
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Italian Architecture in major cities : news + key projects
Italian Architecture Designs in major cities : A-Z (this page)
Italian Building Designs outside major cities : A-Z (this page)
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Italian Architectural Development Updates
Italian city architectural updates:
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Buildings in Italy by city
Italian Property designs by city
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Italian Property developments by type
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Buildings / photos for the Modern Italian Architecture Designs page welcome.