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Italian Building Designs
Key Property + Architecture Developments in Italy, southern Europe.
post updated 19 January 2026
We’ve selected what we feel are the key examples of Italian Building Designs. We cover completed buildings, new building designs and architecture competitions across Italy. The focus is on contemporary Italian buildings but information on traditional Italian buildings is also welcome.
We have 5 pages of contemporary Italian Architecture selections.
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Building Designs in Italy
Italian Architecture in major cities : news + key projects
Italian Architecture Designs in major cities : A-F
Italian Building Developments in major cities : G-P
Italian Building Designs in major cities : Q-Z (this page)
Italian Buildings : Projects outwith major cities
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New Italian Building Designs
Contemporary Italian Building Designs, alphabetical:
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
photo © Adrian Welch
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
picture © Adrian Welch
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
photo : Roland Halbe
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
picture © Adrian Welch
Piazza Augusteo buildings
Music Auditoria
Design: Renzo Piano Building Workshop (RPBW)
photograph © Adrian Welch
Music Complex Rome
Palazzetto dello Sport
Design: Pier Luigi Nervi
picture © Adrian Welch
Palazzetto dello Sport
Stadio Olympico
Design: Annibale Vitellozzi
photo © Adrian Welch
Stadio Olympico Roma
Stazione Termini
Design: various architects
photo © Adrian Welch
Rome Railway Station
TORINO – TURIN
Architecture in Turin
Domino, Turin, north west Italy
Design: MARC
photo : Beppe Giardino
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
photo : Beppe Giardino
House in Mathi
Tosetto Weigmann & Associates, Turin
MARC
photo : Beppe Giardino
Tosetto Weigmann & Associates
URBINO
Urbino Developments
VENEZIA – VENICE
Venetian Buildings
Jesolo Magica complex
Design: Zaha Hadid Architects
image from architect
Jesolo Magica Venice Buildings
Jesolo Lido Village Buildings
Design: Richard Meier & Partners, Architects LLP
photo : Roland Halbe
Jesolo Lido Village
New Mestre Hospital Building
Design: Studio Altieri Spa
photo : Moreno Maggi
New Mestre Hospital Building
Nursery School Building, Treviso
Design: C+S Associati
image from architect
Nursery School Treviso
Quarto Ponte sul Canal Grande
Design: Santiago Calatrava
www.palladium.de, Barbara Burg/Oliver Schuh
Grand Canal Bridge Venice
Serpentine Building, Treviso, Veneto
D+R dipiuerre architettura
image from architects
Serpentine Building Treviso
TMCC cultural centre Building
C+S Associati
image from architect
Venetian cultural centre
Water Filtration Plant
C+S Associati
photo : Pietro Savorelli
Depuratore San Erasmo
The wave, Entrance of the 60th Film Festival
Design: C+S Associati
photograph : Marco Zanta
The Wave Venice Building
VERONA
New Surgery Centre, City of Verona Borgo Trento Maggiore Hospital, Veneto
Studio Altieri
image from architect
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.
More Italian Building Designs online soon.
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Italian Buildings – No Images
Italian Building Designs in major cities : P-Z
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 Italian architecture designs online soon.
Location: Italy, Southern Europe.
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Buildings in Italy by city
Buildings / photos for the Modern Italian Architecture Designs page welcome.
Website: Italia