A lamp made of volcanic rock and a cork chair are among the products exhibited at Lake Como Design Festival that make use of unconventional materials. More about Seven uses of unconventional materials at Lake Como Design Festival
Casa Soleto, a 17th-century house in Puglia, Italy, has been carefully renovated using lime plaster, terrazzo and furniture salvaged from a monastery. More about Andrew Trotter and Marcelo Martínez refresh 17th-century home where time "stood still"
Jonathan Tuckey Design has renovated a former farmstead in northern Italy, restoring and extending a cluster of 19th-century stone buildings to create Cascina, a new home and studio. More about Jonathan Tuckey Design restores and extends traditional stone farmstead in Italy
Architecture studio ElasticoFarm has created a house on stilts around a suspended void nestled in the trees of a private park in Cambiano, a town to the southeast of Turin in northern Italy. More about ElasticoFarm raises house on stilts around central void in Italian park
American entrepreneur Ian Schrager's The Edition group has landed in Rome, opening a hotel in a converted bank that makes use of its soaring lobby, original marble staircases and hidden front courtyard. More about The Rome Edition opens in converted 1940s bank building
A huge tube of light forms a series of arches in this installation created by design studio Objects of Common Interest for this year's Italian Capital of Culture. More about Objects of Common Interest installs snake-like light in Bergamo piazza
The iconic San Siro in Milan, which was set to be replaced by a Populous-designed stadium, has been saved from demolition because of its "cultural heritage". More about San Siro saved from demolition due to its cultural significance
Italian studio Marcante-Testa has turned an industrial building in Venice into the canal-side Ca' Select bar, visitor centre and production facility. More about Marcante-Testa blends "unique characteristics of Venetian identity" for Ca' Select bar and distillery
British photographer Edmund Sumner has captured the monolithic performance space that David Chipperfield Architects crafted within Cava Arcari, a cave near Vicenza in Italy. More about Cava Arcari performance space by David Chipperfield captured in new photos
Glossy white-concrete panels clad this holiday home with a pentagonal plan in Italy, which has been designed by Milan studio JM Architecture. More about Pinwheel house by JM Architecture resembles "a white pebble in the landscape"
Architecture practice Studio Wok has created a matcha-green counter and Japanese-style fabric panels for bakery and wine bar Pan in Milan's Acquabella district. More about Studio Wok designs Milan bakery Pan as contemporary take on Japanese culture
Copenhagen-based architecture studio MAST has unveiled plans to create a park with floating buildings and islands called Centroparco in an abandoned sand quarry on the outskirts of Milan. More about MAST set to transform abandoned Milanese sand quarry into floating park
Architect India Mahdavi has updated six rooms within Rome's 16th-century Villa Medici to feature an array of contemporary and colourful furniture. More about India Mahdavi enlivens Rome's Villa Medici with bold geometric furnishings
A sweeping roof inspired by the mountain skyline of the Alps defines a hillside extension to the Olympic Spa Hotel by Network of Architecture. More about NOA designs Alpine hotel extension as a play on the mountain skyline
An Italian company that makes candied fruit now has a dedicated space for cookery demonstrations, designed by Milan-based architecture office Co.arch Studio. More about Co.arch Studio creates show kitchen for candied fruit specialist Cesarin
A husband-and-wife hotelier duo has renovated a hotel in a Venetian-style palazzo on the island of Capri, refreshing its pastel-pink facade and continuing the hue into the guest rooms. More about Il Capri Hotel receives pink-heavy revamp from Graziella Buontempo and Arnaud Lacombe
Danish artist Thomas Poulsen, also known as FOS, has revamped the flagship store of accessories brand Boyy in Milan, keeping time-worn surfaces left over from the site's former fit-outs. More about Boyy flagship in Milan reveals layers of the store's history
Marcel Wanders, Stefano Giovannoni and Elena Salmistraro are among a group of international designers to have put a contemporary spin on the traditional Korean craft of mother-of-pearl inlay, in a collaboration with local artisans. More about Six designers reimagine traditional Korean mother-of-pearl craft for modern life
Valencian design studio Masquespacio has completed a dine-in restaurant for takeaway sushi chain Ichi Station in Milan, with interiors designed to resemble a futuristic spaceship. More about Space tourism informs design of Ichi Station sushi restaurant in Milan
Italian architect Fabio Novembre has designed a sports centre for playing padel, which will be built alongside a pavilion created by BIG at Milan's CityLife development. More about Fabio Novembre designs padel pavilion for Milan's CityLife development