The feeling of movement

The feeling of movement is a distinctive feature of Italian architect Antonino Cardillo’s specific style. Hardly having stepped in the spacious cool rooms of the buildings designed by him, it catches and takes you on an extraordinary journey. A sweeping river seems to have passed through each of them, having shaped the premises with a blow and left flowing, carved forms embodying the energy of water.

From Aquarium, the young architect’s graduation project at the University of Palermo, an artistic building designed for Trapani port, his infatuation with large, light spaces becomes evident. With Nonis Maggiore architectural studio in Milan, where he worked between 2003 and 2004, he designed the multifunctional complex UCP4 at Porta Vittoria, multiscreen Europlex 9 Cinema in Como and the interior of Starhotels in Milan.

Antonino Cardillo opened his own design studio in Rome in 2005, where he developed a series of avant-garde innovative works. Realizing his passion for curved lines and fluid spaces in his projects, he successfully combines his ideas with the characteristics of the environment in a new unconventional manner. Each of his buildings displays unusual means of expression. The change of seasons and the play of light at different times of the day as if participate in the construction of inner space, the passing of time also leaves its mood. By means of this mastership of his, young Cardillo manages to put fluidity and variability in his buildings, drawing colours and emotions from their surroundings. An inspired example is the architectural spectacle Ellipse, a house design where many of his ideas and concepts find place.

Architecture should be open to influences in order to be enriched and developed, claims Antonino Cardillo. The talented architect proves this statement with his original creations.