The bimonthly international magazine of architecture, design and visual communication, L’Arca International Published by Sam MDO – Principality of Monaco, is the first trilingual magazine (French, Italian and English) entirely devoted to modern-day architecture, design and visual communication as the main topics of each new issue. 71% of its readers are architects in addition to real-estate promoters, people interested in and passionate about architecture and design.

The magazine is printed in 23,000 copies and is distributed internationally; subscribers, professional events,international bookstores, schools of architecture and associations. The magazine is on sale in Europe, Africa, United Arab Emirates, United States, Japan, South Korea, China and over 40 countries on subscription.

It is published 6 times a year and each issue includes many theme section about the latest developments in the industry, a presentation of a selection of projects by international architects, critical writings by art-design experts, an overview of the products and technology of the future, and an in-depth analysis of the latest innovations in the field of design.

L’Arca International provides companies with the opportunity to communicate by publishing pages in the first part of the magazine. l’Arca International’s advertorials are created by the publishing staff in close collaboration with companies, and help to give the reader an insight into the realities of the companies.

L’ArcaWEB is the new online magazine launched by l’Arca International in 2020. L’Arca International’s editorial staff publish monthly news and information about new architecture and design projects. This on-line magazine, with e web traffic of 39.097.912 hits, 193.978 Visitors and 33.011 visited pages, can be consulted free of charge at arcadata.com and is accompanied by a monthly newsletter sent to l’Arca International’s entire database.

Each month the editorial staff will publish a new project chosen from the contemporary international architecture scene. This section can be made in collaboration with a company as an advertorial. The site’s policy is to be highly interactive with companies through its various sections: video library, personalized newsletters, DEM and other forms such as the central or footer banner.

Gruppo Editoriale is a network of 22 top-level magazines created in partnership with 5-star hotel each one based in a different Italian city. All magazine same-city-versions are made available in each hotel room, personalized with the hotel logo on the cover. A very wide yet selected and specialized distribution. The target is perfectly profiled into a specific international audience with a high profile, typical 5-star hotels users, who are generally willing to shop and use services in the city where they overnight.

A strong appeal of Gruppo Editoriale is to be able to cooperate with major life-style consumer products fairs such as Men’s Fashion, Women’s Fashion, Milano Salone del Mobile or, luxury and glamorous, Venice Film Festival, launching and distributing in each related city one magazine, specially edited for the occasion; this is a very efficient system that allows to catch best attention during a highly exposed event.

An additional and very exclusive communication tool in the hands of Gruppo Editoriale, is to be able to use and integrate its high-end local consumers’ list, together with partners who organize event at their boutiques or point of sales; a sound combination that has been proved very effective for immediate and long-term sales, too.