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Rome: ‘Pilgrimage Site For The World’s Imagination’

Adam Nathaniel Furman‘s tenure as the recipient of the 2014/15 Rome Prize for Architecture at the British School at Rome has come to an end. The project that he has investigated over the past months, entitled The Roman Singularity, sought to explore and celebrate Rome as “the… Sigue leyendo

INTECS SPA Headquarters / Modostudio + Studio Cattinari

Architects: Modostudio, Studio Cattinari
Location: Rome, Italy
Area: 3500.0 sqm
Year: 2014
Photographs: Julien Lanoo, Courtesy of Modostudio, Solange Ermelinda Structural Engineer: Gilberto Sarti
Mechanical Engineer And Klimahaus Consultant: Michele De Beni
Fire Consultant: Fernando Orlandi
Site Manager: Gaia Grossi… Sigue leyendo

Arquine Presents: MEXTROPOLI 2015

Arquine’s second annual International Architecture and Latin American City festival, MEXTRÓPOLI, will take place from March 6-10, 2015 in Mexico City. To encourage citizen participation, the festival will be broken down into six parts: listening, dialogue, observation, taking action, participation and… Sigue leyendo

Renzo Piano On ‘Civic Duty’ In Our Cities

In The New Yorker's latest Postcard from Rome Elizabeth Kolbert talks to Renzo Piano in his Senate Office at the Palazzo Giustiniani, just around the corner from the Pantheon. Piano, who was named a Senator for Life by Italian President Giorgio Napolitano in September 2013 (when he was 75 years of age), immediately "handed over the office, along with his government salary, to six much younger architects." He then "asked them to come up with ways to improve the periferie - the often run-down neighborhoods that ring Rome and Italy’s other major cities."

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