An angular black volume sits atop a cork-clad ground floor to form Casa 9, a home that Italian studio LCA Architetti has added to a valley on the border between Italy and Switzerland. More about LCA Architetti nestles angular cork-clad home into Italian valley
Italian studio Peter Pichler Architecture has designed the angular headquarters for manufacturing company Bonfiglioli in Bologna, with a slanted roof covered in pleated mesh. More about Peter Pichler Architecture encloses geometric office block with pleated facades
A 12th-century monastery in Italy's Umbria region has become a boutique hotel in the hands of Florence studio Archiloop, which aimed to retain the site's "rustic simplicity" during its renovation. More about Archiloop converts 12th-century Italian monastery into hotel Vocabolo Moscatelli
Fashion house Bottega Veneta has opened a boutique designed by its creative director Matthieu Blazy inside the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II shopping arcade in Milan. More about Italian modernist architecture informs Bottega Veneta store in historic Milan galleria
British studio Zaha Hadid Architects is creating 100 refuelling stations in Italian marinas for energy company NatPower as the "world's first green hydrogen refuelling infrastructure". More about Zaha Hadid Architects unveils hydrogen refuelling stations for Italian marinas
Swiss architecture studio Herzog & de Meuron has revealed an "optical illusion" infinity pool at Italy's Lake Como made from prefabricated steel and set against a backdrop of historic colonnades. More about Infinity pool by Herzog & de Meuron aims to "blend into the waters" at Lake Como
US studio Rafael Viñoly Architects has unveiled its plans for an international terminal at Florence Airport in Italy that will be crowned by a 7.7-hectare vineyard. More about Rafael Viñoly Architects unveils plans for vineyard-covered airport terminal
Italian studio AIM has designed a compact, multi-level apartment interior in Milan organised around a floor-to-ceiling Verde Alpi marble partition. More about Monolithic green marble forms "majestic wall" in Milan apartment
Carlo Ratti's appointment as the next Venice Architecture Biennale director raises questions about how architecture's most important event will be impacted by Italy's far-right government, writes Catherine Slessor. More about "Ratti's Venice biennale appointment marks a screeching U-turn"
Italian studio Robocoop has created a temporary facade to blend into its historic surroundings and hide ongoing construction on a palace courtyard restoration in Rome. More about Robocoop conceals Rome palace restoration work with "illusionary infill facade"
Italian architect Antonino Cardillo has completed a house near Lake Garda featuring steep ceilings, arched doorways and a palette of textured plaster and marble. More about Antonino Cardillo designs Elogio del Grigio house as "miniature palazzo"
Italian studio Mario Cucinella Architects has unveiled its design for a hospital and health park in Cremona, Italy, which appears to rise out of the ground in concentric rings. More about Mario Cucinella Architects reveals semicircular hospital rising out of the ground in Cremona
Interior design duo Humbert & Poyet has delivered an opulent setting for the Milan outpost of high-end steakhouse Beefbar, taking over the former chapel of a 500-year-old seminary on Corso Venezia. More about Humbert & Poyet sets up Beefbar restaurant inside 16th-century Milanese chapel
Japanese designer Daisuke Yamamoto presented recycled steel chairs on podiums of the same material as part of an exhibition at Dropcity in Milan, which has been shortlisted for a 2023 Dezeen Award. More about Daisuke Yamamoto presents recycled steel chairs under Milan railway arch
Milan-based designer Patricia Urquiola has converted a palazzo in Rome into a hotel and spa, filled with circular elements and traditional Italian materials. More about Patricia Urquiola converts historic palazzo into Six Senses Rome hotel
A Star Wars-like cemetery extension and a cheese-shaped temple feature in this roundup, where photographers Roberto Conte and Stefano Perego spotlight the best brutalist buildings from their book Brutalist Italy. More about Brutalist Italy book showcases "sometimes surprising" concrete architecture
A 1960s Italian hotel and the historic coastal bulwarks below have been restored by architect Bonaventura Gambardella and interior designer Nikita Bettoni. More about Cliffside hotel on Italy's Amalfi Coast incorporates medieval stone defences
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