A consortium of Italy’s Webuild and Vianini Lavori has won a €776m design and build contract for the T1 section of the Rome Metro, which will connect Clodio/Mazzini to Farnesina…

An Italian consortium of Webuild, Eteria Consorzio Stabile, Costruire, ICM, and MN Metropolitana di Napoli has landed a €660m contract for the first lot of a contract on Naples metro…

A team of BC Building Consulting, RINA, STI Engineering, WSP and Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) has won a design competition for the Malpensa Hospital in northern Italy, located between Milan…

Italy’s Court of Auditors, which overseas public spending, last month refused to authorise construction of the €13.5bn bridge over the Strait of Messina, planned as the first fixed link between…

Webuild has installed the first of 35 “mega caissons” for the Port of Genoa’s new breakwater. The concrete structure stands 33m tall, equivalent to an 11-storey building. It’s 67m long…

The first tunnel connecting Austria and Italy under the Alps has broken through some 1.4km beneath the Brenner Pass, which forms the border between the two countries. When completed, the…

Webuild has begun training prisoners in Italy to work on its project to build the Naples-Bari High-Speed Railway.

A consortium led by Webuild and including Ghella, Pizzarotti and Seli has landed a €1.6bn contract to build a 22.2km section of the high-speed railway under construction between Salerno, just…

Thousands of people took to the streets in the Sicilian city of Messina on Saturday to protest against a €13.5bn plan to build the world’s longest suspension bridge over the…

A Webuild-led consortium today won the contract to build the long-planned bridge over the Strait of Messina in Italy to provide the first fixed link between Sicily and the mainland.…

An Italian joint venture of Webuild and Vianini Lavori has won a €2bn contract to build a 4km extension of Rome’s metro Line C with four new stations. The new…

Architects Diller Scofidio + Renfro has won the Golden Lion Award at the Venice Biennale for their “Canal Café”, an installation that serves espresso made from the city’s murky canal…

Several of the world’s leading data centre hyperscalers are eyeing Northern Italy – and Milan, in particular – to expand their footprint. This has nothing to do with the catwalks.…

Kansas-based architect Populous and Italy’s Maffeis Engineering have unveiled the design for a 18,500-seat stadium for football, Serie A rugby and concerts in Venice. The stadium’s curved design is inspired…

Italian contractors Webuild and Vianini Lavori have completed an 18-month restoration of the 16th Century Church of Santa Maria di Loreto in Rome’s historic centre. The project was part of…

Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) has won a competition to design a large-scale urban regeneration scheme in Naples. The masterplan for “Napoli Porta Est” (Naples East Gate) sets out a €700m…

Work has begun on the Centre of Mediterranean Culture, designed by Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) for a site on the Strait of Messina between Sicily and the Italian mainland. The…

Italian contractor Webuild has completed an extension at Milan’s Sant’Ambrogio metro station, which includes a display of a mediaeval wall found during its construction. A 70m-long passage has a glass…