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Canali inaugurates its new Flagship Store in Madison Avenue, New York.

The project, designed by Park Associati, reflects the elegant nature of the fashion brand, while the introduction of minimal details imparts freshness and contemporaneity to the store.  Similar to the brand's distinguishing sartorial features, the materials associated with traditional architecture acquire their individuality and value through applied craftsmanship.

During the opening, the Italian artist duo Goldschmied & Chiari will present Untitled Views, a body of works chosen by Canali that are displayed in the store. The boutique is transformed into a refined and unique gallery, as the artworks define an immersive journey that takes the visitor from outside to inside the store, creating a dialogue with the style and uniqueness of the brand.

The body of work is composed of precious and evocative mirrored works that welcome the public into an imaginative, fluid, colorful environment, where dream, vision and landscape converge.

Conceived and organized by Saporiti Italia, the exhibition “100+1 Alberto Rosselli per Saporiti Italia” pays tribute to Jumbo, the iconic armchair designed in the 1960s by Alberto Rosselli, one of the masters of Italian and international design. Ten international design firms have been invited to reinterpret the chair in ten new colours. Inspired from the photographic work of Angelica Dass, Park Associati presents Skins of the World, using a colour palette that involves the nouances of the human skin beyond the standard vision of white, black, red and yellow.

Matteo Arietti, Head of Research at Park Associati, answers this question in an interview by The Design Story, as he talks about humanities as an intangible part of architecture.

“We need humanities to decode the process, nurture the culture, and nestle creativity to be effective problem solvers. We need to grow in our capacity to anticipate the needs of people, show that there are new functional ways of making their lives better and that architecture has mastered the art of preserving humanities. It is like connecting form and shape, history and culture come together in one scheme.”

Watch the interview on YouTube or read it on The Design Story.

Park Associati’s project Luxottica Digital Factory is featured in the architecture magazine CASABELLA in the September issue focused on the theme ‘Refitting’.

The project, located in Milan, is an intervention of industrial architectural restoration aimed at accommodating the Digital Factory of Luxottica, a world leader in the eyewear market. Thanks to Park Associati's retrofitting intervention, in collaboration with storagemilano, the complex becomes an open and flexible container where history, change and creativity find the ideal convergence ground. Paying the greatest attention to quality, using technologically innovative materials and seeking cutting-edge architectural solutions are the Digital Factory project’s focal points.

CASABELLA 937, year LXXXVI / September 2022

To find out more, click here.

Park Associati act as tutor at the workshop organised by the Faculty of Architecture and Design of the University of Camerino as part of the II level Master CIRCUL_AR, Forme e Metodologie dell'Architettura Circolare (Forms and Methodologies of Circular Architecture). The Workshop is curated by Timothy Brownlee and Federica Ottone, teachers at Unicam, with the collaboration of Alessio Battistella, professor at the Politecnico di Milano, and the architects Matteo Arietti and Michele Versaci, of Park Associati.

Taking place in Amandola, in the province of Fermo in the Marche region, inside the crater created by the 2016 earthquake, the workshop focuses on the restoration and performance improvement of temporary houses, which will be relocated and reused in a new area.

The workshop will reflect on the critical issues related to temporary housing structures and on how rubble can be reused in a creative way, by thinking outside the box and following the principles of urban mining, respect for local material cultures and the reduction of CO2 emissions in the construction process.

19th - 29th July, Amandola.

The workshop is open to all students, who will be awarded three free credits. For information click here

On 30th June, from 18.00 to 22.00, the Ordine e Fondazione degli Architetti of Milan will host a meeting between Nemesi and Park Associati on workspace architecture. The meeting is an opportunity to reflect on the transformation of office spaces during the pandemic and the changes that have taken place, the relationship between these places and the city, remote work and the open air office. Park Associati's intervention will focus on three recent or ongoing projects: Accenture People Hub, Luxottica Digital Factory and MI.C.

The meeting is introduced by Nicola Russi, associate professor at the Politecnico di Torino and partner of Laboratorio Permanente. The moderators are Donatella Bollani and Claudio Nelli.

Participation is free both in person and via webinar. To register click here