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MILANO WORK IN PROGRESS
THE FIRST PROCESSES OF URBAN METAMORPHOSIS IN THE RUN-UP TO EXPO 2015
Projects by Cino Zucchi Architetti and Scandurra Studio
From 6th November to 2nd December, Spazio FMG, the FMG Fabbrica Marmi e Graniti exhibition space, will be hosting Milano Work-In-Progress: Projects by Cino Zucchi for Portello Fiera and by Scandurra Studio for the Zurigo Headquarters at Maciachini. The exhibition, curated by Luca Molinari with Simona Galateo highlights the slow process of urban metamorphosis, which will be gradually accelerating during the next few years in the run-up to Expo 2015.
“Milan is changing before our eyes, but we are still finding it difficult to realise this. You have only to travel the city’s outer roads and ring roads to count tens of cranes at work where its biggest factories once stood. They are making way for new residential districts, offices, parks and public buildings. Milano Work-In-Progress is a season of events in which Fabbrica Marmi e Graniti Spazio FMG will be documenting the best output, the themes, the problems and the emerging protagonists of the city we might describe as the capital of Italian modern architecture. As far back as May 2007, the gallery hosted an exhibition dedicated to four projects for vertical buildings, designed by Italian architects in Milan. This focus on the city is continuing with the documentation of two almost completed works which stand out for their quality of design and the excellence of the two architecture firms involved: Cino Zucchi Architetti and Scandurra Studio.
Cino Zucchi was invited, together with other firms, to design a new residential district on the old Alfa Romeo industrial area at Portello on the basis of a masterplan by Gino Valle, proving that today it is possible to design a residential development where the quality of the homes created goes hand-in-hand with a strong focus on the design of the public areas open to all.
The new Zurigo Assicurazioni headquarters building, designed by Alessandro Scandurra within the former Carlo Erba factory in the Maciachini area is another, valuable reminder of how a brownfield site can be redeveloped to create an unusual public space in which fine architecture and environmental quality combine.
Two major works for Milan, which show an important new approach to the reuse of disused industrial sites, and both set much-needed new quality standards in contemporary architectural design,”, writes Molinari.
SPAZIO FMG per l’Architettura (Milan, Via Bergognone 27) is a gallery and cultural project which serves as an open space for exhibitions and discussions in the world of architecture, through a packed scheduled of exhibitions. After the first season, during which a number of big names in Italian and international architecture, including Michele de Lucchi, Italo Rota, Stefano Boeri, Aldo Cibic and others, succeeded each other, in December Spazio FMG will be hosting LONDON CALLING, dedicated to the work of four up-and-coming architects on the British scene.
FMG Fabbrica Marmi e Graniti Spazio FMG is run in association with Corriere della Sera, with the sponsorship of Milan City Council.
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