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Who’s on Top in Design Innovation? Explore the World Design Rankings (WDR) Over the Last Decade

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Image Courtesy of A' Design Award & Competition Created to offer insights into the state of the design industry, World Design Rankings (WDR) serves as a valuable resource by highlighting the creative strengths, weaknesses, and opportunities of different countries. Read more »

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Influential Italian postmodernist architect Paolo Portoghesi passes away aged 91

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An important driver of postmodernism in Italy has been lost following the death of Italian architect, theorist, and historian Paolo Portoghesi in his native country this week at the age of 91.

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What to do about Italy’s fascist monuments? Contextualize them.

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Not so Italy — there was no equivalent de-fascistization. The country is still filled with buildings and street names that evoke its 20-year dictatorship. There are at least 1,400 monuments to the Fascist Mussolini regime spread throughout the country. Many see parallels to the struggle of U.S.

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Italy launches unprecedented anti-seismic plan to protect churches under threat from earthquakes

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Cathedrals, churches and basilicas across Italy are at risk of being razed by earthquakes that could strike at any moment. But the government is on a mission to protect some of the country’s most significant and vulnerable religious buildings from disastrous seismic shocks. billion ($213.7 billion ($213.7

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Rafael Viñoly Architects unveils new airport terminal in Florence, Italy replete with a vineyard on its roof

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In wine country, Rafael Viñoly Architects is designing a major new international terminal at Aeroporto Amerigo Vespucci outside the historic city center of Florence, Italy.

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“Architecture Needed to Be Liberated from Itself”: In Conversation with James Wines

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This act of liberation is expressed in many radical projects that he and his company, SITE (Sculpture In The Environment) realized in 11 countries.

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Dezeen's top 10 architecture and design books of 2023

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Also featured in the roundup is a series of books on kerbside dining shelters made popular during the coronavirus pandemic and two books on brutalism , one focusing on architecture in Paris and the other in Italy.