Empire Riverside Hotel
The Empire Riverside Hotel and the ‘Brauhaus‘, an office building with a restaurant on the ground floor, are located in the centre of Hamburg, above St. Pauli‘s gangways on the former Bavaria brewery grounds. The buildings are situated between two high …
Extension of Youth Music School
The first phase of the Music school in Hamburg was finished in 2000. When designing this building there was already the intension for a second phase of the building: a new auditorium, the project for the classrooms, the public spaces and the administra …
Ministry of Urban Development and the Environment
The architecture of the new Ministry of Urban Development and the Environment helps to define a diverse, multicultural and integrative new district in a formerly neglected area of Hamburg. The building consists of two wings connected through a high-ris …
Redevelopment and Conversion of Elbe Island Kaltehofe
“Wasserkunst Elbinsel Kaltehofe” is a Hamburg Wasserwerke (Hamburg Waterworks) project initiated by the nature conservation organisation Schutzgemeinschaft Deutscher Wald (SDW) and part of the development and ecological Agenda 21 process. On the ground …
area 125 – cino zucchi cza
presentazione/introduction New geometries testo Marco Casamonti dialoghi di architettura/architectural dialogues Sentimental education a dialogue among Marco Casamonti, Pier Paolo Tamburelli and Cino Zucchi Grafting a …
Cino Zucchi: from the MIT to the Polytechnic and back
Marco Casamonti and Cino Zucchi in CZA office. Photo by Pietro Savorelli To suggest a critical reading of an architect and a work that is so close both on a personal level and on a professional one may entail the risk of a non-objective vision, blurred …
Sentimental education a dialogue among Marco Casamonti, Pier Paolo Tamburelli and Cino Zucchi
Marco Casamonti: We did not decide to do a monographic issue on your work based on considerations of an “autarchic“ nature on Italian architectural culture, but rather because we are interested in a line of yours that manages to perceive an architectur …
Grafting – a skype conversation between Steven Holl and Cino Zucchi
View of Cino Zucchi Architetti office in Milan – photo by Pietro Savorelli After the three-way conversation – Casamonti, Tamburelli, Zucchi – Area proposes and participates in a conversation via Skype between Cino Zucchi and Steven Holl, in an attempt …
Copycat. Empathy and envy as form makers
The installation by CZA gives body to the idea that formal cultures propagate through “contagious” processes which combine imitation and innovation, creating sequences of artefacts linked by subtle variations on a common theme. Nine metal cabinets are …
In the body of the city
The recurring analogies between city and biological organisms incorporated in our language over the centuries demonstrate our sense of guilt toward Mother Nature and her presumed infallibility. They speak of urban tissue, green lungs, traffic arteries, …