Industria delle Costruzioni

458 – Regeneration and Urban Development in Hong Kong

november-december 2017
Constantly increasing, Hong Kong is the most vertical city on the planet with an astonishing and unique landscape. Its particularity is the result of, on the one hand, its physical and geographical conditions and, on the other, the meeting between two very different cultures. The projects selected in this issue reflect the Hong Kong’s new attention toward its history and culture and its interest toward the transformation and recovery of existing building stock.

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457 – Morocco: architecture and city

september-october 2017
This issue, dedicated to contemporary architecture in Morocco, gives the opportunity to reflect on the theme of the relationship between architectural and urban tradition and contemporary languages. A thin red line connects the projects selected for this issue with traditional culture and its way of conceiving and inhabiting urban space.

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456 – Themes and forms of living

july-august 2017
Starting from a selection of residential projects on an international scale, this issue proposes a broader reflection on contemporary models of living. Epochal changes raise questions about the meanings of the home in a “liquid” and multi-ethnic society, and how it can represent them in the contemporary city.

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455 – Made in Italy 4: Rome Milan Turin

may-june 2017
This issue presents three Italian cities – Rome, Milan, Turin – illustrating the architectural results of a number of important projects against the backdrop of the transformation strategies implemented over the past twenty years. The aim is to examine the ample spectrum of positive changes and the state-of-the-art of Italian architecture in the early twenty-first century.

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452 – New Museums in Italy

november-december 2016
This issue presents a selection of the most recent museum projects realised in Italy. This mixed collection ranges from the design of exhibition spaces to the expansion of buildings of notable architectural and historic value, conserving equally valuable collections of art, to the reuse of existing structures and the addition of new volumes, to small interventions that heighten the value of parts of the city or landscape.

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451 – Transit Places: Stations

Spaces of transit – metro, railway and maritime stations – have always been a significant and nodal presence in the fabric of the city. Today, for a society whose very raison d’être is to be sought in the act of movement, these spaces are an inevitable part of urban life. Public spaces par excellence and…

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450 – Italian Review 8

At a time of economic crisis and an increasingly more unstable socio-political situation the philosophy underlying the survey of Italian architecture presented in this issue appears particularly appropriate. With the end of the season of large urban transformations that saw architecture play a leading role, from the midpoint of the last century onward, the scenario…

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449 – Architecture in Chile

The projects presented in this issue are not only the expression of a culture of dwelling tied to the particular geographical context of Chile; they are also an exemplification of a virtuous approach to the transformation of the city and territory. An approach that, having assimilated the most authentic lesson of the Modern Movement,…

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448 – Italy. Building into the built

The city grows by expansion and at the same time by building atop itself, through additions, insertions and overlaps; this process has regulated its development throughout history. The method of urban evolution typical of every era is once again a the centre of architectural debate, as a consequence of an inversion in social and economic…

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447 – Renzo Piano Building Workshop 2015

Just one year after being inaugurated by the Former President of the French Republic Valéry Giscard d’Estaing on 31 January 1977, issue n. 76 of L’Industria delle costruzioni from February 1978 published the Centre Georges Pompidou by Renzo Piano & Richard Rogers. The presentation of the building intentionally avoided any critical commentary, opting instead for…

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