vespa PX 150
After playing a leading role in the history of our country’s costumes and mobility for 65 years, Vespa celebrates the 150 years since the unification of Italy: Vespa PX, 150th Anniversary of the Unification of Italy, is now born. The Vespa has played a …
area 115 – concrete
presentazione/introduction The beauty of concrete text by Marco Casamonti editoriale/editorial The miracle of cast stone text by Sergio Poretti Stressed structure text by Antón García Abril scenari di architettura/arc …
The beauty of concrete
Paulo Mendes da Rocha, MUBE museum, São Paulo. Photo by Leonardo Finotti The word “concrete” which should simply indicate the most widely used building material really evokes, in a great many cultural contexts, contrasting scenarios and states of mind. …
The miracles of cast stone
On the occasion of the exhibition on Pier Luigi Nervi presented at the MAXXI, Zaha Hadid has written that the Italian engineer “has always wielded a profound influence” on her work. The declaration, which has given rise to some amazement, suggests a re …
Stressed structures
To build with the earth is to build time. In other words, it means to build by preserving the memory of nature, of the raw material. If we consider carefully, all building materials essentially come from the mineral world. It is industrial processes th …
Teshima art museum
Teshima Art Museum is located on Teshima Island in the Seto Inland Sea. It faces the ocean from a magnificent hillside covered by rice terraces. It was important to us to create an architectural space that could coexist with Rei Naito’s work and act in …
Hanuman Temple
These notes may be helpful to you one day, if what happened to me five years ago should happen to you. On an evening at the Mumbai airport a gentleman gave me a yellow envelope, telling me “if you may be interested, open it when you reach Milan“, and s …
Léon de Greiff Library Park
The aim is to establish a project that enables the biggest amount of urban connections and the development of public spaces. To achieve this, there are several proposals such as enabling the roofing of the building as public space, empowering meeting p …
Food Park
The project focuses on an area in the middle of the former area of the Carlo Erba plant, which is currently being developed and upgraded. The project area is central both from a physical and strategic point of view. The longer side of the elongated rec …
Plantahof Auditorium
The placement of the new auditorium creates a new central square in the urban settlement of the agriculture school Plantahof. The high façade holds together the new piazza. The inner space of the auditorium lies in half-light. Two windows facing each o …