BERKLEY Design Company

Index

Projects

Heritage restoration and adaptive reuse — monumental religious, civic, and noble buildings across Italy. Organised by typology, most recent first.

Adaptive Reuse

7 projects

  • Ex-Convento di San Francesco a Ripa — ICCROM Headquarters

    Rome, Italy — MIC – Soprintendenza Roma — in progress

    Restoration of an ex-convent complex around the Cortile del Lavatoio to host the headquarters of ICCROM — the global reference institution in conservation.

    2024

  • Palazzo Buonaccorsi — Museum of the City

    Macerata, Italy — Municipality of Macerata

    Comprehensive restoration of a noble palace and conversion to civic museum, with major decorative-arts conservation and seismic improvement under conservation constraints.

    2008

  • Castello di Piombino

    Piombino, Italy — Municipality of Piombino

    Restoration of a thirteenth-century castle and its conversion to the Museum of the Castle and the City, with integrated archaeological campaign and accessibility.

    2001

  • Palazzo Lovatelli

    Rome, Italy — Municipality of Rome

    Restoration of a historic palace built over the Porticus Philippi, with integration of archaeological evidence within the active functional programme.

    1997

  • Ex-Chiesa di San Barnaba

    Brescia, Italy — Municipality of Brescia

    Restoration of a thirteenth-century church and adaptive reuse as a civic auditorium; services routed through the archaeological undercroft.

    1995

  • Palazzo Galletti

    Palermo, Italy — Municipality of Palermo

    Restoration of a medieval urban-block residential complex with Ottocento scenographic façade and Chiaramonte-style tower; returned to municipal use.

    1995

  • Convento di Sant'Antonio

    Ceppaloni, Italy — Municipality of Ceppaloni

    Complete restoration of a former convent and conversion to municipal offices and cultural functions; post-earthquake heritage recovery.

    1990

Heritage Restoration

4 projects

  • Chiesa di San Francesco del Prato

    Parma, Italy — Diocese of Parma — in progress

    Restoration of a thirteenth-century Emilian Gothic church and return to original liturgical use, with seismic improvement at global-organism level.

    2024

  • Cathedral of Cefalù

    Cefalù, Sicily, Italy

    Conservation of one of the principal monumental religious heritage works of Sicily — cathedral-scale restoration reference within the portfolio.

    2015

  • Palazzo Riccio di San Gioacchino

    Trapani, Italy — Provincial Administration of Trapani

    Restoration of a Baroque palace with documented reconstruction of WW2-damaged elements, reinstatement of the historic tower, and full structural consolidation.

    2009

  • Bastione Nord-Occidentale, Corte Pentagonale & Casermetta

    Piombino, Italy — Municipality of Piombino

    Restoration of sixteenth-century Camerini fortress elements as part of the Castle Park scheme; preservation of the legibility of multiple construction phases.

    2006