Eur New Congress Centre and Hotel
The structure will be built in a strategic area of the historic quarter EUR on a 55,000-square-meter built surface. The design concept is briefly explained by three images: the “Theca”, the “Cloud” and the “blade” of the Hotel. The “Theca”, longitudina …
Regione Piemonte Tower
The construction of the Regione Piemonte Tower, close to the Lingotto area, is on a building area of 95,000 sqm and it is part of the master plan signed by Massimiliano Fuksas for the redevelopment of the area “Ex Fiat Avio”. …
Music Theatre and Exhibition Hall
The project site is located inside the green area called Rhike Park, in Tbilisi, Georgia. The building consists of two different soft shaped elements that are connected as a unique body at the retaining wall. Every shapes has his own function: The Musi …
Guosen Securities Tower
After Studio Fuksas won the Shenzhen Bao’an International Airport Terminal 3 in March 2008, on October 18th 2010 Massimiliano and Doriana Fuksas won the “International Schematic Design Competition of Shenzhen Guosen Securities Tower”. The project by St …
Contemporary itinerary: Vilnius
A tour of contemporary architecture of the Lithuanian capital.
Contemporary itineray: Valparaíso and Concepción
A look into contemporary architecture in Chile: Valparaíso and Concepción.
area 130 – gathering places
This number of Area focuses on architectures which represents and generates socialisation in the contemporary city.
Architectural typology vs. behavioural typology
Marco Casamonti presents Area 130 focused on spaces of aggregation and socialization
Re-thinking urban main streets: from dividing to connecting spaces*
Main streets are the most obvious urban infrastructures that have been there from the very beginning of cities and which still today form the backbone of every urban region. Throughout the history of European cities they have been transformed from conn …
“i” for interactivity
Sometimes it only takes a little, even just an idea, a sudden curiosity, to begin a research project. It happened in 2009 with a contribution on the pages of this very magazine in which I have begun to reflect, on the basis of an analysis of the archit …