"The Italian Indie Label in Architecture"
(World Architecture Community Award 2009-2010, IN/ARCH Prize mention 2011)

Spacelab Architects is an Italian architectural design studio specializing in architecture, landscape design, urban development and with some productive experiences in industrial design.
Spacelab: a space, architecture and design research laboratory. Because we all are quite scientists.

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Luca Silenzi featured in CLOG:RENDERING

Luca Silenzi featured in CLOG:RENDERING

We are honoured to announce that Luca Silenzi – Spacelab Architects co-founder and director – is featured as contributor in the fourth issue of CLOG, dedicated to the topic of “rendering”, with an essay entitled “Real VS Plausible”. Here is the abstract of CLOG:RENDERING, in pre-order starting from today (the printed issue will be available for...
Spacelab+Arup wins 2nd Place in "Nuovo Salesi" Pediatric Hospital international competition

Spacelab+Arup wins 2nd Place in “Nuovo Salesi” Pediatric Hospital international competition

Breaking News: Spacelab Architects + Arup London + Arup Italia + Carrara International wins 2nd place in “Nuovo Salesi” Pediatric Hospital international competition, Ancona (IT).
"Know your [archi-]meme": Luca Silenzi featured on Domus #956, now on newstands

“Know your [archi-]meme”: Luca Silenzi featured on Domus #956, now on newstands

We are proud to announce that Luca Silenzi, Spacelab Architects founder and director, is featured on the March issue of Domus – the prestigious international architecture and design magazine edited by Joseph Grima – with a paper on “architectural memes”. “We think we’re original, but in reality we are carriers of, and work on, the...
Our "Heracles gets smarter" on display in The Gopher Hole gallery, London

Our “Heracles gets smarter” on display in The Gopher Hole gallery, London

Heracles gets smarter, our entry for the “Project Heracles” call for ideas organized by Domus last weeks will be on display inside the exhibition ‘Project Heracles: 300 ideas on a Euroafrican connection‘ in the Gopher Hole Gallery, London. The exhibition is the result of a project initiated by Domus magazine, who in turn were inspired...
The Food Container_Remixed shortlisted for the IN/ARCH Prize

The Food Container_Remixed shortlisted for the IN/ARCH Prize

We are proud to announce that our Food Container_Remixed (2008), in its effort to lead architectural quality of trivial spaces to a higher level, awarded the honorable mention for the “IN/ARCH – ANCE Marche” prize: our “unboxed box” was shortlisted by the jury to compete in the national edition of the IN/ARCH Prize. Fingers crossed...
30S in the Nordic Pavilion: Spacelab gatecrashes the 2010 Venice Biennale

30S in the Nordic Pavilion: Spacelab gatecrashes the 2010 Venice Biennale

Increasingly true: appearing counts more than being. And even Spacelab appears for thirty seconds in the 2010 Venice Biennale, inside the stunning Fehn’s Nordic Pavilion. “30S” is a crowdsourced video installation project by AGENCY, selected to exhibit at the Nordic Pavilion, acting as ambassadors for SUPERFRONT-NY in collaboration with At Work With. Thanks to the...
World Architecture Awards: XX Building on the podium

World Architecture Awards: XX Building on the podium

World Architecture Awards – 6th cycle: Spacelab’s concept for the ‘XX Building’ in Porto San Giorgio (Italy, 2009) is the first between the ten winning projects selected through the rating of all qualified visitors, with the stunning average of 9,18/10. For now, public seems rewarding us. Next time, we’ll try to make more efforts to...
World Architecture Awards: the Food Container selected by the votes of visitors

World Architecture Awards: the Food Container selected by the votes of visitors

World Architecture Awards – 5th cycle: Spacelab’s classic ‘Food Container_Remixed’ building (Italy, 2007-2008) is among the ten winning projects selected through the rating of all accredited visitors. Thanks to all those who gave us strenght!! Link: World Architecture Awards – 5th cycle
Jakarta 2.0: Spacelab at IABR Rotterdam 2009

Jakarta 2.0: Spacelab at IABR Rotterdam 2009

In the previous weeks we submitted a project to the international ideas competition “GotongRoyong City: Envisioning the Future of Jakarta“, organized by the “International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam” (IABR) 2009 and Rotterdam Berlage Institute, in collaboration with Ikatan Arsitek Indonesia (Indonesian Institute of Architects Jakarta Chapter) and University of Edimburgh, Department of Architecture. ‘Gotong Royong’ is...
The Durres Experiment

The Durres Experiment

Here is a teaser of one building we had to design for the Durres (AL) urban centre, today still in the phase of preliminary studies. Links to the project: Europaconcorsi.com Spacelab ITA
The Food Container on "Arch Daily"

The Food Container on “Arch Daily”

The Food Container_Remixed was published last december on Arch Daily, the influent architecture international blog. There’s also a link to Mimoa (my modern architecture) website, in which is published the geolocalization of the building: Enjoy!