Milan

Carlo Ratti Associati (CRA) is planning to bring something of the Italian countryside to inner-city Milan with its Vitae project. The eye-catching building will host research facilities, offices and a restaurant, and will be covered in greenery, including a vineyard.

Alex Chinneck's surreal artistic works offer a fascinating twist on everyday architecture. His latest project involves him apparently unzipping an aged building's facade during Milan Design Week.

Along with the usual concept cars, Mini has branched out to house and camping concepts in recent years. The latest Mini Living installation, launched in Milan, is an eco-minded six-floor house squeezed into a 50 square-meter (538 square-foot) urban plot. ​

Mini has turned its hand to tackling the problem of urban overcrowding. The Mini Living installation at Salone de Mobile in Milan is a concept apartment that uses folding modules to create a shareable, reconfigurable space for inner-city urbanites.

Heineken crowdsourced a design for a futuristic nightclub that popped up at Milan Design Week.

Gizmag's top three picks from the Milan Design Week 2012 range from innovative design and ecological use of materials to wish-list outdoor kitchens.

KeepCup is an ecological solution to coffee-on-the-go that attempts to blend the best elements of disposable and reusable cups.

The Salone del Mobile in Milan showcases thousands of home-furnishing designs from around the globe.

Peugeot will use the Milan Motorcycle Show to debut a roofless version of the the HYbrid3 Evolution which replaces the original roofed versions 21 bhp 125 cm3 supercharged motor with a 41 bhp 300 cm3 supercharged engine.

Ducati has followed up the successful but expensive Hypermotard 1100 with a smaller, lighter baby brother that comes in under US$10,000. We call it the 'Diapermotard' - Ducati prefers 'Hypermotard 796.'

The Milan trade fair will commission the world’s biggest rooftop solar power installation covering around 270,000 square meters (2.9 million square feet) and with a peak installed capacity of at least 18 megawatts.