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Genoa,one of the biggest town planning in Europe. |
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The
Parodi Bridge competition (inXII 7,196,199) ended with the awarding of the
job to Van Berkel with a proposal almost organic that simulates the hills of
Ligurian Territory sliding to the sea…..a shell that will contain public
services, common spaces as extent on the sea of the city. Nothing
to comment about the project of Ben Van Berkel, after all,among the four
finalists, he was the most interested; for sure the Oma-Boeri project was
the most innovatory, modern and closely linked to the tradition of the space
and not to the image… But
comprehensively, changing range, and having a general view we must maintain
that Genoa , starting from the end of eighties and more exactly in 1992 (for
Colombo celebration)until today ( G8)is a continuous renwal and
transformation just within its heart the " Port" modifyng
consequentely the city in its energy . The
conquest of the sea,the appearing of the city, the permeability among the
narrow and winding streets of the historic center find in this wide space
close to the sea an extraordinary European dimension. A
transaction of 1.000.000.000.000 lire entirely public, a restoration
comparable to the one of Berlin,Paris and Barcellona.... the matrix project
of Renzo Piano made of components that end from time to time together with
architectural objects that characterize the place like astonishing
composition of intelligent technologies, in this way has been projected the
Slipway crane( "Bigo") the awning for festivals, the aquarium the
gigantic wind mills that crown together with palmas the wide spaces.. and
finally the Bubble... a transparent globe that interacts with the sun
shading automaticly itself and keeping inside a stable temperature . The
building sites increase Bohigas-Bona, Rizzo, DeCarlo..an urban project that
in its nature renews the image rearranges the urbanistic structure ,accepts
the challenge to be the most important port of north Mediterranean, to be a
commercial pole and an exchange knot for Europe. This
renewal aims to the big industrial transformations ,to tourism, from
stockage to the " production of quaternary". Here
the Architecture play a role of assimilation a learned substitution for
parts suggesting the "new" having deep roots in the past...
…this awareness is found out by the book of Aliresa,Naser Eslami,"
Genoa and the mediterranean/oversea reflections on the artistic culture and
the Architecture of urban space XII-XVII century" that persuades to the
reflection of a look from outside, the mediterranean sea seen from east….
The big charm of the territorys where cultures meet each others and
exchange… just as the sense of the city.
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