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Renzo Piano’s new temporary auditorium opened in L'Aquila by Italy's President Giorgio Napolitano, reports Jeanne-Marie Cilento The renowned Italian architect donated the design of the project to L'Aquila, the Abbruzzo region's capital city destroyed by earthquake in 2009. President Napolitano said at the opening ceremony, the new auditorium is a symbol of the future regeneration of the city's old town. Former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's plan for a "new town" has been completely scrapped. In the aftermath of the disaster, the musical director and conductor Claudio Abbado asked Renzo Piano to create a space dedicated to music to allow the city’s cultural life to continue. This is the first public building to be constructed since the old town's destruction. Piano collaborated with 20 undergraduate engineers from the local university to complete the building. Composed of three wooden cubes with varying proportions, the buidling is made from wood from the Val di Fiemme and houses 250 seats. Funded by the Province of Trento, the project began in 2009 but has had to overcome many controversies before it was completed. The community in L'Aquila is concerned the new temporary auditorium will remain permanent and replace the historic original at the city’s castle that still needs restoration - like the rest of the old town. But Renzo Piano has always said his auditorium is “ephemeral architecture” - made of wood and not of stone - and that it can be dismantled in the future if the city decides it is no longer needed. Click on photographs for full-screen slideshow Photographs by Franco di Capua

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Completed in 2010 in Torelló, Spain. Images by Adrià Goula. The approach to the nursery is on the basis of the land surface separated from the urban park of the same name. This place is chosen because is...

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Completed in 2021 in Inca, Spain. Images by José Hevia, Kika Sorell, Grimalt de Blanch. This is a project for the transformation of an existing public space. The intervention enhances existing qualities and elements through its use and...

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Jing Kai New Media Center is located in Tongzhou, Beijing. In a height of 6 meters and an area of ​​about 500 square meters, it is transformed from the existing staff canteen into venue of the Beijing Design Week 2016. With only one-month construction period, the architect decided to preserve the original structure and corrugated steel sheet façade, to enable low impact measures within an integr..

Image 9 of 23 from gallery of Fundamental Transformation of Plaza Mallorca / Son Estudi. Photograph by José Hevia