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The year 2024 is looming under the banner of the outdoors. The new trend in outdoor design, inspired by travel, embraces and transforms outdoor spaces into evocative and relaxing settings where nature, design and architecture come together to create boundless environments.
From coveted travel destinations to design and lifestyle trends, the outdoors and the way it is cared for will be a fundamental constant that will accompany us in the months to come.

January is par excellence the month of fresh starts. At a time when nature is regenerating itself, we too seek our ritual of rebirth.
With the New Year still fresh, the desire to get off on the right foot and take care of oneself opens the door to wellness and the search for methods and practices that are good for our bodies and minds.

Planning, dialogue and training: the constant and continuous confrontation between all the protagonists in architecture and design who are involved in the realisation of a building project is increasingly a topic of fundamental reflection.

 

The year 2023 is drawing to a close, and in addition to the considerations to be made for the Outdoors to come, we feel it is our duty to reflect on the best moments that have made these past months special. 

 

Environmental sustainability is an increasingly recurring theme worldwide, and in recent months in particular it has been at the centre of discussions in the European Union, where the EU Parliament and Council, mediated by the Commission, are taking significant steps towards reducing carbon emissions in the area of sustainable construction.

 

“Canottieri Olona 1894, Milano. Un progetto di Lombardini22” is the title of the latest monograph published by Platform, an architecture and design magazine. This recounts the ambitious renovation project of the historic Milan-based sports club that proposes an innovative fitness area set up under our Imago® bioclimatic pergolas.
 

Pergolas are an elegant solution for creating cosy and functional outdoor spaces, thus allowing you to enjoy your garden or terrace in any weather conditions.

"Outdoor spaces allow more creative freedom than indoors, which are often limited by restrictions and structural constraints," says Metaldi