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Architecture and interiors, Lugano

Albedo

2026Design and build

Albedo is an architecture and interiors studio in Lugano, working on houses, interiors and places to stay in Ticino and northern Italy. Albedo is the share of light a surface reflects, and the site is built on that: it is dark, and the whole page turns the colour of travertine when you reach the studio's practice. Each of the six projects has its own page with facts, materials and photographs, with short notes drawn onto the pictures as they come into view. The work overview can be filtered by type.

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A lit jetty leading to a glass pavilion on a lake at dusk.
Plaster niche with shelves, a stone bench and a round table. Double-height living room with a stone wall and a glass stair.
An indoor pool lined in timber, lit along the ceiling.
Barrel cellar under funnel-shaped concrete columns.
Armchair in a deep arched window recess. Glass-gabled hall on a stone base against a wooded hill.
White card model of a house above a pool.
Stone house with green shutters on a wooded hillside.
Sunlight in diagonal bands across a concrete wall.

Image selection

The Albedo homepage: a jetty and pavilion on a lake at dusk, with the name ALBEDO across the full width.
Hero
The studio: a white card model on the left, a paragraph about light and materials on the right.
The studio
The practice section, where the page turns the colour of travertine: Architecture, a line of text and a photo.
Practice
Selected work: the heading, a link to all six projects and the first two, an interior in Milan and a house on a lake.
Selected work
The founder: his portrait beside the quote “A room is finished when the light has somewhere to land.”
Founder
The Casa Lago page: the name and the facts on the left, the house on the lake at dusk on the right.
Project page
The homepage on a phone.
The practice section on a phone.
A project page on a phone.
The list of projects on a phone.
On a phone
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