CRA breathes new life into a crumbling monastery within a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Northern Italy. The project employs 3D scanners to convert the decaying ruin into a digital point-cloud. Then prefab timber skin is fitted into the old structure, preserving the trees and ivies that have grown amid the bricks. The design proposes a new framework for restoration, bridging the natural and artificial worlds.
Coinciding with its 60th anniversary, Gruppo Saviola participates in the Salone del Mobile with "Wood You Believe?", installation created in partnership with international design and innovation office CRA-Carlo Ratti Associati and architect Italo Rota.
Newly-established real estate investment firm IQON, founded by industry veteran Giovanni Gregoratti and MIT professor Carlo Ratti, has finalized its first deal with the acquisition of Vodafone’s global headquarters in the UK.
CRA unveils the Greenary, a private residence built around a ten-meter-tall ficus tree, located at the center of the living space. The traditional Italian farmhouse was redesigned to showcase new approaches to blur the boundaries between the natural and artificial.
Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, an international task force of designers, engineers, medical professionals, and military experts have joined to work on CURA, an open-source project aimed at capacity building in Intensive-Care Units (ICU).
CRA wins the international competition for Reinventing Cities with the design of a new research center under a 200-meter-long vineyard, connecting the street level to the rooftop with a seamless footpath.
Inspired by an ancient marine tradition, three boats will arrive in Dubai by sea and then be raised and turned upside down to become the very roof of the building
Carlo Ratti (Chief Curator), Politecnico di Torino and South China University of Technology (Academic Curators) are co-authors of one of the Bi-City Biennale’s winning proposals
International design and innovation office CRA-Carlo Ratti Associati has unveiled the Greenary , a renovated farmhouse designed around a 10-meter-high (32-feet-high) Ficus growing within the main living area
CRA-Carlo Ratti Associati has collaborated with Alphabet’s Sidewalk Labs in Toronto to design The Dynamic Street, a prototype for a modular paving system which aims to make streets reconfigurable
The Salone del Mobile.Milano ponders the possible reconciliation of man and nature with an emotive installation that enters into the debate on the value of sustainable living
The 280m tall high-rise on 88 Market Street, jointly designed by CRA-Carlo Ratti Associati and BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group is an oasis in the bustling Central Business District of Singapore.
