Just outside the northern city of Milan, a very colourful tourist attraction is taking shape. The city is set to get Italy's very first tulip field this month - and visitors can take the flowers home to keep. The enormous field, which has the aim of becoming "the happiest place in Milan", will showcase 250,000 tulips of 183 different varieties acro...

«Il suo amore per il cupo look industriale della Sony diminuì quando, nel giugno del 1981, cominciò a partecipare al congresso annuale del design. Quell’anno lo stile del convegno era lo stile italiano, ed erano stati invitati l’architetto-designer Mario Bellini, il regista Bernando Bertolucci, il designer di auto Sergio Pininfarina». Steve Jobs (i...

Milan and the rest of the fashion world stepped off the ready-to-wear hamster wheel this week to pay tribute to Franca Sozzani, the longtime editor of Italian Vogue, who died in December at 66. The winter sky was slate gray on Monday afternoon as the great and the good of the industry gathered in the Duomo, the city’s massive Gothic cathedral, for...

Starbucks’ first foray into Italy will be a big, high-end Roastery located in a historic building in central Milan. The 25,500-square-foot store, to be located in the turn-of-the-century Palazzo Delle Poste (post office) building on Piazza Cordusio, will open in late 2018. It will be the company’s first Roastery in Europe, and the fifth announced t...

If the Porta Nuova-Garibaldi area in Milan, with its skyscrapers that have come to symbolize the city’s recent changes, is progressively growing into the financial and hi-tech district of the metropolis, the futuristic architecture designs of CityLife have attracted investments from the major insurance groups, with Allianz preparing to move 3,000 e...

Una finestra fotovoltaica trasparente, fabbricata senza materiali tossici e che non modifica la qualità della luce che filtra negli ambienti? Sembra impossibile ma questo sogno tecnologico si sta avvicinando alla realtà grazie alla collaborazione tra l’Università del Minnesota e l’Università di Milano-Bicocca. Su QualEnergia.it avevamo anticipato i...

It is the story of a country that managed to get back on track and find a fresh start after the tragedy of World War II. Today, February 17, a new exhibition opens at the Parco Esposizioni Novegro, near Milan, celebrating the 70th anniversary of the Lambretta, the still world-famous scooter. It was conceived in 1947 by the industrialist Ferdinando...

The Italian startups scene keeps growing and, like every year, we would like to spot a top ten list of the most promising Italian startups. Some of these italian startups, selected by Business Insiders, were rewarded during the “Start up Day 2016” at the Bocconi University in Milan, one of the most important University in Italy in the field of econ...

Alitalia e Delta mettono in vendita biglietti in offerta per volare sui collegamenti diretti delle due Compagnie fra Milano Malpensa e New York JFK.In classe economica, i biglietti sono in vendita fino al 1° ottobre a partire da €498 (tasse incluse) per volare indistintamente con Alitalia e Delta fra il 1° ottobre e il 15 aprile 2014 (esclusi i per...

The newly released ranking from The Time reveals the best universities in the world with less than fifty years. The criteria of evaluation remain the same thirteen as those for the more notorious World University Ranking. However, the indicators have a greater focus on innovation and potential, rather than history and prestige. The countries with t...