MINIMALIST SOUL
he challenge of adapting an old space for modern-day life is a tale as old as time. Do you replicate the historic features, trying to avoid clumsy simulacrums and keep things sympathetic? Or do you go all out and challenge the vernacular with strikingly contemporary additions, hoping the contrast doesn’t fall flat? At Castello Residence in Milan, architect and artist Vincenzo De Cotiis has taken to bridging old with new with his characteristically
