We are pleased to announce that on Thursday, February 19, 2026, we will be attending the 10th edition of MyPlant&Garden at Rho Fiera Milano, at “My Landscape Area” Hall 08 C40, Landscape Room 1, from 12:15 p.m. to 1:15 p.m., for a talk entitled “A Window on the Landscape. Limone sul Garda. A Parking Lot-Park between Infrastructure and Landscape.”

Together with Studio Ingegneri Associati Fontana & Lotti-Lorenzi, who shared the design concept with us, we present a project that constitutes a strategy for environmental integration along the lakefront between infrastructure and landscape, through the creation of a theme park with underground parking, as well as the redevelopment of the existing parking lot to create a panoramic “terrace” with a Mediterranean garden.

A new “Mediterranean” landscape for Garda Lake.

We look forward to seeing you!

We are pleased to announce that we’re attending the 10th edition of MyPlant&Garden from February 18 to 20, 2026! You can find us at Hall 8 C40, at the Project Gallery of My Landscape Area.

The exhibition, curated by Sabina Antonini of EN Space Network, is a special proposal conceived for the tenth edition of the exhibition, and features a selection of particularly noteworthy projects dedicated to the theme of innovative landscape design.

The initiative offers a valuable opportunity for designers, visitors, and exhibitors to exchange ideas, promoting the development of relationships and new technical and professional knowledge.

We are delighted to share this space with other leading professional studios such as ATI Project, Facchinetti&Partners, Luigi Ferrario Architetto, Lombardini22, Natura e Architettura, Plan Studio, and Giuseppe Tortaro Architetti.

We are pleased to announce we will be attending “LANDSCAPE EXPLORERS” talk organized by the APPC Order of Verona, in collaboration with the Italian Association of Landscape Architecture (AIAPP).

This is an important opportunity to present projects currently under development, where landscape design becomes a disciplinary synthesis of interventions in the territory between agronomy, architecture, sociality, and environmental transformation.

We will present experiences of environmental and landscape redevelopment of squares, parks, and green areas.

This is an important opportunity for sharing and discussion with leading landscape architects and architects who deal with these topics.

We would like to thank the Order of Architects of Verona for their hospitality and AIAPP for its important collaboration.

Our project, “Ecological and Landscape System for the Circular Economy Park in Cremona”, with which we participated in the event, has been published in the catalog of the 6th edition of Pisa Architecture Biennial, whose theme this year is “NATURE”. It’s a great pleasure to be featured with an environmental and landscape redevelopment project, promoter of different values at the urban scale.

We would like to thank FIAB Presidents (Federazione Italiana Ambiente e Bicicletta) for inviting us to take part in their annual Conference at the Cremona Chamber of Commerce, Sala Maffei. It was an interesting opportunity to present our approach to landscape design as a strategy for cycling and climate resilience.

The landscape strategy must integrate traffic aspects with considerations of the historical and cultural context and the new issues facing urban ecosystems, both in terms of mobility and the use of public space.

This is a cultural shift supported by strategic plans for cycling integrated with mobility, environmental policies, natural drainage systems for sponge cities and urban ecosystem management.

Landscape as a strategy for the cycling of the future!

In the book of the 12th edition of the Barcelona International Landscape Biennial 2023, entitled “The Poetics of Remediation,” in conjunction with the Rosa Barba International Landscape Prize, our “Circular Economy and Renewable Energy Park” has been published in the “Articulation” section, among the selected projects.

We are pleased to announce that one of our landscape planning and redevelopment projects will be exhibited at the 13th International Landscape Biennial in Barcelona in 2025 from November 17 to 21!

A strategic planning intervention for an in-land area in Tuscany, Radicondoli, covering an area of 13,260 hectares, introduces a system of actions and interventions aimed at arranging, through an integrated design approach, a large-scale planning between new energies and landscape.

A significant concept that can be replicated through pilot projects, based on a comprehensive landscape-environmental and economic-productive vision.

The project identifies the following goals: a network of scattered hotels, the promotion of light tourism with eco-campsites and farmhouses, the creation of thematic routes (historical-cultural, water, iron, transhumance) and the enhancement of renewable energies and new agricultural crops (agroecology).

A contemporary landscape plan focused on the creation of a nodal energy network based on the geothermal potential of the area.

Geothermal energy, agrivoltaics and the development of new agricultural crops become the economic catalysts for reactivating and revitalising a large part of Italian inland areas.

We are pleased to announce that we are present at the Italian Pavilion in Arsenale, Venezia, for the talk ” OUTCROPS AND CROSSINGS. Earth and water landscapes” organized by AIAPP LAMS and TER with TStudio, promoted by the General Direction for Contemporary Creativity of the Ministry of Culture and Venice Biennial.

We will present a project displayed at the pavilion related to environmental and landscape-architectural restoration on a stretch of the Tuscan coast.

Coasts and shorelines are areas of landscape and environmental transition that should be enhanced and protected for their residual “naturalness.”

The project proposes a solution for these dune and wooded areas, encouraging their protection through bathing, biodiversity, and sustainable tourism.

Maurizio Ori from O+A Ori Arienti Landscape and Architecture Studio will be in Piacenza on November 6^th, 2025 at Politecnico di Milano, Manfredi Pavilion, at the Faculty of Sustainable Architecture and Landscape Design, for a meeting/lecture on landscape design, which will focus on specific experiences of landscape planning for the protection and enhancement of Po river waterfront, with some considerations on the resources of this particular landscape, with its values and critical issues, aimed at a more sustainable and trans-scalar design.

We would like to thank Politecnico di Milano and professor Alessandro Bianchi for the kind invitation.

We are pleased to announce that we are present alongside other leading national and international firms at the VI Pisa Architecture Biennial, which this year is dedicated to the theme of “NATURE”.

The event, curated by Massimo Del Seppia, Chiara Barsotti, Pietro Berti and Andrea Iacomoni, is held throughout the city and is open from 10 October to 16 November 2025.

Contemporary cities will necessarily have to restore adequate biodiversity through redevelopment and renaturalisation.

Pisa Biennial, as stated in its Manifesto, has set the theme of the relationship between architecture and nature: “a rethinking of the reference models of society and the traditional urban city, starting from an interscalar and multidisciplinary approach that recovers significant and deep relationships with nature. The aim is to enable cities to counteract and mitigate climate change in the short and medium term through ecological reconnection”.

O+A Ori Arienti Studio presents an urban forestry project to strengthen ecosystem services for the city of Cremona, with the aim of implementing environmental values and ecological connection for the southern agricultural sector of the city through NBS (Nature Based Solutions) techniques.

We invite you to participate at the event, which will be rich in important professional experiences on the relationship between architecture, man and nature.

We would like to thank the Laboratorio Permanente organisation in Pisa for this important invitation and opportunity for discussion.

We are pleased to announce that Cremona Water Analysis Laboratory has been selected as a finalist project for The Plan Award 2025, in “Production” category.

The new building is conceived as a real “pavilion” in the landscape, according to an architectural typology foreign to a place distinctly characterized by an industrial vocation. The choice to adopt this iconography fulfils a dual function. The initial step is to explain its uniqueness in the context, emphasizing its representation function, entrusted to the base design, columns and large cantilevered roof. The second step is to settle in the environment with a harmonious relationship between the arboreal specimens and their surroundings, which is ensured by its horizontal design.

It is inspired by the concept of Shakkei “borrowed landscape”, which defines the relationship between Japanese pavilions and their surroundings.

We are pleased to invite you to Pistoia for the seminar “Another Park in the City”. The topic is “Nature-Based Solutions: Resilience of Anthropogenic Systems,” in which we will participate with a presentation entitled “NBS: Experiences of Urban Forests and Environmental and Landscape Redevelopment” in the city.

This important event, organized by AIAPP TUM, the APPC Order of Pistoia, Coldiretti Pistoia, and the Order of Agronomists and Foresters of Pistoia, is an opportunity to open a discussion on the importance of urban ecosystems.

Cities have to be conceived as ecosystems that encourage and are rich in (BIO)DIVERSITY of the species that “inhabit” them. This factor favors the creation of a habitat that has the ability to resist and adapt to environmental adversities/ongoing climate crises.

Landscape design will have to address these technical specifications in order to design new parks and cities of the future, including the “new” management of rainwater through integrated drainage systems (SuDS).

The article “Design Integrating Architecture and Landscape finds an ally in materials that evoke the Genius Loci of the place” has been published in issue no. 26 of the magazine “Finiture Green” by “La Rivista del Colore”.

Through an interview, Maurizio Ori tells about his training and experience in integrated design combining architecture, landscape, and energy. These three areas interact closely and complementarily each other, defining his design approach. With a particular sensitivity to the architectural integration into its landscape context, the care and choice of materials plays a fundamental role, as he explains in the application of some of his projects.

Maurizio Ori takes part in the ProLab meeting organised by Ceramiche Keope, held in Casalgrande (RE), related to the theme “Architectures in dialogue with Nature”. The intervention aims to deepen this relationship thanks to two projects concerning a pavilion in an industrial context and an industrial plant in a natural context.
An opportunity to discuss the care and importance of the material aspect in architectural and landscape projects in relation to the context in which they are located.

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We are pleased to announce that Arch. Maurizio Ori with O+A Ori Arienti Landscape and Architecture Studio has been invited to the Italian Pavilion of the 19th International Architecture Exhibition of Venice Biennial, which takes place from May 10 to November 23, 2025.
The theme of this edition is Intelligens: Natural. Artificial. Collective. In this context, the Italian Pavilion, at “Tese delle Vergini” in Venice Arsenal, on the proposal of Curator Guendalina Salimei, aims to explore the TerraeAquae relationship, that is, the relationship of those delicate areas of “transition” that characterize the Italian coasts and the Mediterranean Sea.
O+A Ori Arienti Studio has been selected in this important international event to present a project of environmental and landscape/architectural recovery of a stretch of Tuscan coastline.

Maurizio Ori takes part in an interesting seminar on “Landscape Energies through Agrivoltaic Systems”, organised by University of Florence/DIDA Department of Architecture.
Landscape design and planning have a strategic role to play in managing the complexity of new renewable energies and in spreading knowledge of their potential, encouraging new perspectives in the use of agri-environmental systems to manage the current climate crisis.
Ori intervenes with an ongoing realisation on the theme of the insertion of these technological installations in the Italian landscape: “Landscape planning and design of technological systems in the historical-cultural context of the landscape”.
A challenge for contemporary landscape design in the difficult cultural-historical and landscape context of our Country.

We are online on “Torrazzo con Vista”!
An interview and a common reflection on our relationship with the environment and the landscape from this extraordinary monumental observatory, also in connection with the World Earth Day, which will recur in a few days.
A dialogue with sociologist Mauro Ferrari and Cristina Aroldi of Los Limpiadores de Estrellas. An important talk between landscape architects and related visions, despite disciplinarily different. An opportunity to discuss the relationship between landscape, architecture, climate crises, renewable energy and environmental forestry compensation.
Landscape design as a way of managing territorial transformations and climate. A holistic approach that “feeds” on social, environmental and historical/cultural relationships.

Special thanks to Torrazzo con Vista team!

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On occasion of “Externa”, the International Exhibition of Outdoor Spaces, O+A Studio participates in the training meeting “Open Air tourism, new ways of experiencing Salento landscape”.
Maurizio Ori presents some professional experiences in which the characters of the place are the founding elements for a landscape design that becomes an ordering element of the transformation processes in coherence with the pre-existing environmental and cultural values.
The landscape design as a founding element of environmental and territorial transformations!

Padania Acque new analysis laboratory project has been published on Divisare, the online library of Contemporary Architecture.

Expression of a contemporary industrial architecture that dialogues with the context in which it is located.

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We are in Novara to share design considerations on the theme “Re-opening Navigli for a new urban landscape”. Organised by Order of Architects PPC of Novara and Verbano-Cusio-Ossola, the meeting discusses this important topic as an opportunity to restore importance and dignity to a hydraulic and landscape system that can be source of renewable energy and an important sensor for the management of hydraulic climate crises at the (supra)regional scale.
Lombardy Navigli system as a “hydraulic body” to manage climate crises for a new landscape project.

We have been invited to participate in the initiative “Waiting Spaces – Contribution of Ideas”, promoted by the Order of Architects, Planners, Landscape Architects and Conservators of Piacenza and XNL – Centre for Contemporary Art, to present a project hypothesis on the themes of landscape and natural redevelopment of some marginal areas of the Municipality of Piacenza.
An opportunity to recover residual urban spaces and encourage biodiversity for the contemporary city, through the fusion of nature and man-made, contributing to the regulation of the urban microclimate.
Hypothesis selected by the Jury, in which we propose the transformation of “Canale della Fame”, through the restoring of naturalness and the encouragement of biodiversity as promoters of large-scale ecosystem services.
The proposed intervention identifies the following keywords: naturalness, drainage basin, discovery of new uses, innovation, renewable energy, reuse.
A park that scenically unites Trebbia river and the agricultural landscape from north-west to south. A new seismograph of the city’s ecosystem and hydraulic services, as suggested by the participants in the debate.

O+A Studio takes part in an important study Conference on landscape and agronomic-forestry design as a guarantor of Ecosystem Services in relation to Corporate sustainability.
Thanks to AIAPP TER, the Municipality of Bologna, the Council of the National Order of Agronomists and of Forestry Doctors and the Order of Engineers of Bologna for the very important technical-scientific update and for the invite received.
We have been able to assimilate important experiences regarding the calculation of Ecosystem Services required to counteract climate crises for the sustainable management and planning of cities.
O+A Studio has had the pleasure of presenting the Circular Economy Park for the city of Cremona as a pilot project for a large territory in the southern area of the city, which includes the environmental recovery of a landfill and a woodland that had already been carried out, and landscape management methods for an energy section of the city.

We are pleased to announce the inauguration of the building for the extension of Padania Acque’s Analysis Laboratory in Cremona.
A pavilion in the landscape, a low-energy NZEB architecture.
A hinge between agrarian and industrial landscape, the elements and materials characterising industrial design become the reference for the language describing the new architecture.
Through its large windows, the surrounding landscape penetrates into the building, connoting the work spaces. At the same time, the water analysis process is shown and presented to the city as a transparent manifestation of the valuable service carried out for the community.
The pavilion also serves as a place of knowledge and environmental education, thanks to a didactic garden set up for school classes and visitors.

As part of Milan Green Week, a meeting takes place regarding the developments on the important topic of the reopening of Milan’s Navigli, entitled “NAVIGLI. CIVILISATION ROUTES FOR A NEW LANDSCAPE”.
An occasion to discuss the strategic importance of this intervention, from an environmental and landscape point of view, but above all of the good management and energy reuse of the precious resource that is water.
An important opportunity for discussion and updating to take stock of the situation and relaunch a project plan that envisages important environmental, energy and economic consequences for the city of Milan, as well as social and awareness-raising new aspects for citizens.

On the occasion of Milan Green Week being held in Milan from 26th to 29th September, with pleasure Maurizio Ori, together with colleagues of AIAPP Lombardy section, takes part in the Workshop “THE ACTION OF WATER. MODELLING AND MANAGING SLOW AND PERMEABLE LANDSCAPES”, concerning the virtuous use and management of this precious resource.
In particular, Arch. Ori shares some considerations and design approaches on the importance of saving and correct water cycle in new construction projects integrated with landscape design, with a speech entitled “THE WATER RESOURCE: the Landscape project as a synthesis moment for sustainability. Ongoing experiences in a residential district in Milan”.

We are pleased to announce that O+A Ori Arienti s.r.l. Landscape and Architecture Studio and Arch. Ezio Gozzetti, Gozzetti Architecture Studio, won the 1st Prize of the prestigious Dubai Skyline Architecture Awards 2024, awarded on the occasion of the Congress “Construction & Real Estate Market in the UAE 2024”, by nominating Polo Verde project.
Innovative technological hub built and operating in the city of Cremona, Polo Verde project is not only an architecture for its own sake, but it’s also a way of reinterpreting the relationship with the pre-existence, with the urban block, the inner courtyard, the garden, the resulting public and semi-public spaces. Moreover, the building is characterised by its particular features of energy and technology efficiency and consequent environmental sustainability. An architectural approach that re-proposes “urban elements” of the historic city of Cremona for the redevelopment of the “belt” landscapes, for a contemporary and sustainable city.
An important international acknowledgement that rewards the combination of functionality, technology and architectural and landscape design at the service of the city.

On the occasion of the XIV “Landscape Festival. The Masters of Landscape”, organised by Arketipos, with AIAPP Lombardy, within the Talk “THE BOTANICAL LANDSCAPE. THE ROLE OF BOTANICAL GARDENS IN LANDSCAPE DESIGN”, O+A Ori Arienti Studio presented the guidelines and project of the new Botanical Garden in Bergamo.
An interesting and meaningful opportunity to discuss the contemporary function of botanical gardens and the new challenges related to the study, experimentation and verification of botanical species as a result of rising temperatures. In closing, a deepening for possible new Talk on the relationship between autochthonous and allochthonous species in the light of the current climatic crises has been suggested, in order to
propose new ways for agronomic and forestry design. So, what will be the new THRESHOLDS between traditional phytosociological vegetation associations and the new botanical paradigms of the future?

Polo Verde project has been published on Divisare, the online library of Contemporary Architecture.
An opportunity to enhance and recognise an important and significant achievement.
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At Milan Rho Exhibition Centre, Maurizio Ori participates as a speaker in the round table “INNOVATING OUTDOORS: DESIGNING QUALITY THROUGH COLLABORATION BETWEEN LANDSCAPE DESIGNER AND PLANTSMAN”.
Landscape design requires collaboration between various figures, including landscape architects, garden designers and agronomists. Climate crises and resulting complexity require an articulated approach to transformation and management of open spaces, developed in a key of environmental sustainability, where quality and functionality must be related to the historical-cultural context, always respecting and enhancing biodiversity.

The project Circular Economy and Renewable Energy Park has been selected by the Jury of the “Rosa Barba Casanovas” International Prize for Landscape Architecture connected to the Barcelona International Landscape Biennial, organised in collaboration with ETSAB-Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya.
This will be exhibited in Barcelona during the Biennial from 24th to 28th November and will be included in the Exhibition’s prestigious catalogue. The project has been selected along with important international contributions from authoritative Firms from Australia, New Zealand, China, the Netherlands, Mexico, Portugal, Norway, etc.
We are thrilled to announce the outcome of the candidature, as the themes we care about professionally find a place in the project both from a theoretical and design point of view: circular economy, integrated energy production, environmental mitigation and new forestation to protect built-up areas as green bastions, for a contemporary landscape that looks to the future in a sustainable way.
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As part of the InOut – Green Scape event, regarding the theme “THE ROLE OF LANDSCAPE AS ADDED VALUE IN HOSPITALITY STRUCTURES” held at the Rimini Exhibition Centre, Maurizio Ori participates as a speaker with a speech entitled “Hospitality and Landscape Project. Examples in progress”.
The centrality of landscape and outdoor spaces is taking on a decisive role in the hospitality offer a structure is able to provide.
It is a plus that has implications for the emotional-perceptual component of the hospitality experience.

The article “Drosscape, Laboratory of Biodiversity” has been published in issue no. 54 of the magazine “Paysage Topscape”. The project intervention concerns the environmental and landscape redevelopment of the former inert waste dump in Cremona, with the aim of stitching up marginal and compromised hybrid territories among city, agricultural space and naturalistic relicts. A laboratory of vegetational and faunistic biodiversity, with the dual purpose of mitigating the environmental and landscape impact of the former landfill and redeveloping the area itself in relationship with the panoramic, environmental and morphological characteristics of the landscape context.

O+A Ori Arienti Studio presented some ongoing experiences related to landscape design, circular economy and renewable energies at the International Landscape Architecture IFLA World Congress being held in Stockholm and contextually on online platform.
It is an important opportunity to talk with Landscape Architecture colleagues and to discuss at global level on topics such as sustainability, responsible lifestyles and planning the landscapes of the future.

The winners of the “City’Scape Award” 2023 edition, promoted by CNAPPC (National Council of Architects, Planners, Landscape Architects and Conservationists) and the international magazine Paysage Topscape, have been announced at Milan Triennale, with the aim of valorising the best ideas in the different fields of Landscape Architecture.
In the CITY LANDSCAPE A2 category, focused on the Landscape Redevelopment of Fringe Territories, the 2nd Prize has been awarded to the project ENVIRONMENTAL AND LANDSCAPE REDEVELOPMENT OF THE FORMER SAN ROCCO LANDFILL presented by Maurizio Ori – O+A Ori Arienti with Dr. For. Giorgio Grossi.
The International Award represents a recognition to the project which aims at redeveloping and renaturalising a degraded area of the city of Cremona. The reforestation area (10 hectares) has a high level of naturalness and is a nesting and breeding place for wildlife, anticipating by two decades the recent European directives prescribing a massive renaturalisation of areas intended for production as well as the reconversion of degraded ones to transform them into positive places for urban areas (in terms of ecosystem services and NBS – Nature Based Solutions).

O+A Ori Arienti Studio and Arch. Ezio Gozzetti, Gozzetti Architecture Studio, with POLO VERDE project have been selected by the Jury of the Italian Architect Award 2022 for publication in the Yearbook 7 of the Italian Architect Award, organised by CNAPPC.
An important recognition in a publication representing the contemporary talents of Italian architecture.
The event is an opportunity to promote – in national and international contexts – a sustainable contemporary architecture careful to the context, conceived and built in Cremona, and reasoning about urban regeneration in a suburban area through the revival and architectural reinterpretation of the Renaissance palace and the urban block.
An NZEB (Near Zero Energy Building) building that reproposes and reinterprets the elements of the historical city.
The award represents a valuable opportunity to think about the themes of architecture in relation to its urban context, new construction and energy efficiency technologies for buildings, the enhancement of the fringe landscape and the contemporary reinterpretation of “our architectural past”.

The article: “Regeneration of a hybrid landscape”, concerning the design masterplan for the Circular Economy and Renewable Energy Park in Cremona has been published on the magazine Architettura del Paesaggio no. 46 – Ghost Landscapes, and presented in Naples on 12th and 13th October as part of the European Landscape Architects Conference.
The design of a hybrid landscape identifies the right mediation and answer to complex issues such as the coexistence and integration among high quality agricultural landscapes, naturalistic areas and production of electricity from renewable sources. The publication provides a description of the mitigation measures already carried out: the conversion of the former S. Rocco landfill into a completely renaturalised embankment and the creation of a hygrophilous Po valley lowland woodland as environmental compensation for the waste-to-energy plant. Both interventions, at maturity, show a high level of renaturalisation and possible project models for the future.