Works

The House of Ariadne near Lake Garda is conceived as a miniature palazzo: a rectangular marble living room with a cuspidated ceiling.

The apartment near the station of Parma: a polychrome sequence of rooms, diagonal striped parquet and painted MDF doors.

The embarcadero for the Stagnone Lagoon and the island of Motya at the Ettore and Infersa Salt Pans: a threshold between land, water and myth.

The nightclub Off Club in Casal Bertone with golden rough-plaster vault, black iconostasis and a sequence of arches: a nocturnal liturgy of form.

The oratory Sala Laurentina of the Cattedrale di San Lorenzo: a green archway, pink rough plaster and a silver rectangle of limestone.

Series of seven sculptures which relate the arch to the phallus: part of the LDF exhibition Space and Light at Sir John Soane’s Museum.

The perfume shop Illuminum on Dover Street in Mayfair ward: a grey rough-plaster grotto, silk carpet and olfactory glass bowls.

The Mondrian Suite art gallery in Rione San Lorenzo: golden-green rough plaster, an arched mirror altar and black trumpet lamps.

The apartment near Via Veneto and Villa Borghese: brown rough plaster and a series of pink arched doors.

A shop on Corso XXII Marzo in Milan designed as a miniature palace: a labyrinthine perspective with a series of elongated arches, pearlescent greys, mauve greens and intense magenta.

The entrance to the London Design Festival exhibition at the Victoria & Albert Museum: Postmodernism: Style and Subversion 1970–90.

The seventh instalment in the ‘For No One’ collection. This expressionistic abode of sculpture embarks on a voyage into the legacy of the Normans.

A two-level wooden residential building on a trapezoidal plot, commissioned by construction company Nomura Koumuten, overlooking Osaka Bay.

The Sergio Rossi shoe store in the Brera district: blue background, grey carpet, timber-frame enclosure, fluorescent tubes and Joe Colombo’s lamps.

The Wallpaper* Architects Directory model house exhibited at the Berlin Neues Museum and the Rotterdam Chabot Museum: a vault, a courtyard and golden plaster.

The sixth instalment in the ‘For No One’ collection. This architectural project embarks on a journey into the ruins of ancient Rome.

The fifth instalment in the ‘For No One’ collection. This dwelling embarks on a voyage into the realm of fear and unconfessed desires.

The fourth instalment in the ‘For No One’ collection. This lakeside retreat embarks on a journey into the unpredictability of reality.

The third instalment in the ‘For No One’ collection. This structure embarks on a voyage into the realm of transition and movement.

The Birnbeck Island masterplan for the RIBA–Urban Splash regeneration competition of the Grade II* listed pier: a curved basement embraces the diverse elements of the island.

The second instalment in the ‘For No One’ collection. This tower-like dwelling embarks on a journey into the realm of silence and sound.

The first instalment in the ‘For No One’ collection. This elliptical tower embarks on a voyage into the realm of geometry and light.

Cardillo’s architectural thesis project: an aquarium suspended above the sea, where fluid cavities and a circular pressurised gallery evoke a silent dialogue between marine life and the Mediterranean horizon.