Housing Sociale _ ‘Una Comunità per Crescere’ _ Via Cenni
International Competition - Milan - Italy - 2009
Awarded 3° Place
La Rinascente _ Roma _ Piazza Fiume
La Rinascente, Italy’s leading Department Store interest and one of the predominant retail groups in Europe, earlier this year engaged TP/A to intervene in their historic Piazza Fiume building in Rome, designed in 1962 by Franco Albini. The building, a protected and registered architectural landmark, maintains the basic massing of the 1887 Rinascente building on...
TP/A – New Studio
LIGHT and SPACE TP/A – New Studio Coordinates TP/A via Canonica 67 20154 Milano 20154 t +39 02 49631639 f +39 02 49543124 e info@tim-power.com … more LIGHT … more SPACE Life is too short for anything less
Office Building – South Italy
Leasable Office Building – South Italy During a recent site visit for a project currently in development for one of our partners / established clients, we encountered a ‘developer’ (name withheld) interested in transforming an existing warehouse into leasable office space. The building is located in an industrial park in South Italy, a typology uncommon...
MUJI – Laboratory for Living – Enjoy ! ( ) Energy
With admirable resolve and a sincere desire to change the planet for the better, from the onset of their existence the Japanese company Muji has taken a steady and incremental approach to doing so. Far be it from us to synthesize the Muji Philosophy … if we could, it would be something like this …...
J. Walter Thompson _ Italian Headquarters
J. Walter Thompson _ Italian Headquarters Milan – Italy _ 1999 (w / FGS) This restructuring of a 19th century mill provided 3000 square meters of office space for the multinational advertising giant J. Walter Thompson. The existing industrial building was constructed in two main bodies, heterogeneous in their functional, morphological and spatial qualities. These differences were...
The Source _ Containers for San Pellegrino + Acqua Panna water
The work of TP/A, ever environmentally and socially responsible, is very seldom overtly political. We like to think of our work as ‘both/and’ – both Commercial and Cultural. However, with an upcoming referendum in Italy to vote on the future of our water, to keep it public, or to privatize it, we speak up in favor...
New Retail Environment
In 2010, TP/A was contacted by one of Italy’s largest fashion groups, requesting the design of a contemporary retail environment for their leading brand. The brand itself has a specific target … the ‘full bodied woman’, for which the brands product line and communication are fully tailored … Presently, the retail experience does not provide harmony...
ArchiMagazine _ Conversation with Tim Power
This Conversation between Tim Power and Ivana Riggi, conducted in Italian on the 16th of April 2011, discusses various aspects of the practice of TP/A, covering a selection of the studios projects as well as some background of Tim Power. The succinct but wide ranging interview covers a cross-section of the works of TP/A, from...
Chip Chair _ Curved Glass Stacking Chair
Chip Chair _ Curved Glass Stacking Chair Zeritalia_Curvet (currently Estel Home Collection) _ 1995 The Chip Chair, designed by Tim Power for Zeritalia in 1995, has since become an unexpected classic in the lineage of modern chairs. Published in well over 100 magazine articles and books, including a cameo in the New York Times and...
CSU_Florence
CSU_Florence Symposium March 2 Invited guest lecturer Tim Power presented the works of TP/A in the Symposium ’30 years of Teaching and Research in International Architecture’ at CalState University in Florence. The lecture focused on ‘Connectivity’, presenting the works of TP/A in a scalar progression from small projects (industrial, furniture and lighting design) to medium...
Tim Power _ Design Boost Interview
Tim Power _ Design Boost Interview Milano _ April 2009 http://www.designboost.se/index.php/home/boostevent/miniboost.html http://www.designboost.se/index.php/home/boostevent/miniboost/139-tim-power.html … Over the span of the past half-decade or so, Tim Power Architects has consciously enlarged the focus of their research and production from physically small scale projects to include interventions on a grander scale. Projects which relate to territory, land and city...
