Architects: Massimiliano & Doriana Fuksas
Location: Pescara, Italy
Client: De Cecco Spa
Structure: Studio Ing. Toniolo, Sirmione (BS)
Total area: 6,300 sqm
Budget: 20M Euro
Project Year: 2001-2009
Photographs: Moreno Maggi
Architects: Massimiliano & Doriana Fuksas
Site: Mainz, Germany
Client: Wohnbau Mainz GmbH
Structure: Knippers Helbig beratende Ingenieure
Total area: 9,000 sqm
Budget: 14M Euro
Project Year: 2003-2008
Photographs: Moreno Maggi
Massimiliano and Doriana Fuksas has designed the facility for the dramatic 2009 season of the National Institute of Ancient Drama.
An extraordinary debut for the two architects in the sign of the classic scenes have created which will move the heroes of the 45th Cycle Classic Performances, scheduled at the Greek Theater in Siracusa from May 9 to June 21.
“Reality – comments Massimiliano Fuksas – is what we see in the mirror or what is reflected? We did not want or thought ever to resolve the dilemma. There is always time to acquire the magic necessary to understand the origins and the core emotions. Beyond the image, the true point of departure. ”
For the architect the element of reflection and inspiration for the design of the set was the horizon. “A horizon very simple – he adds – who speaks of the cathartic and what was the landscape, place, and action, for the conscience of the spectators, not today but yesterday.” As the landscape and the scenery have changed over time, the intention contained in the set design is the reconstruction of a lost horizon, staged by a “concave blade” that reflects what is going around, which involves the public, which reflects and invites reflection.
“Medea” by Euripide is directed by Krzystoff Zanussi , translated by Maria Grazia Ciani, costumes by Beatrice Bordone Bulgari, music by Daniel D’Angelo, Elisabetta Pozzi in the role of protagonist.
“Edipo a Colono” by Sofocle, directed by Daniele Salvo, translated by Giovanni Cerri, costumes by Nicola Luccarini, music by Marco Podda, with Giorgio Albertazzi role in place of tragedy.
Photograph by Moreno Maggi.
French architect Dominique Perrault has been selected to design the new city center of Bulgaria’s capital Sofia. The city center will be built in the next ten years and will house various state institutions. The center will be located along Sofia’s main boulevard “Tsarigradsko Shosse”. The vision of Bulgarian prime minister Sergei Stanishev and his brother – architect Georgii Stanishev – is to gather ministries and state agencies in the new “Sofia city”, relocated from the current center of Sofia.
Perrault was selected among six practices, all of them world architectural design leaders including Zaha Hadid, Norman Foster, and Massimiliano Fuksas. Two Bulgarian firms also participated in the final stages of the contest.
Seen at Bustler. More images of Perrault, Foster and Hadid’s proposals after the break.
Friday 24 April at 11 a.m. will be presented the new Church in Foligno, based on plans by Architects Massimiliano and Doriana Fuksas.
Architects: Massimiliano & Doriana Fuksas
Site: Foligno, Italy
Client: Conferenza Episcopale Italiana – Diocesi di Foligno
Total area: 20,690 sqm
Building area: 610 sqm
Parish complex: 1,300 sqm
Structure: Ing. Gilberto Sarti
Service: A.I. Engineering
Artists: Enzo Cucchi, Mimmo Paladino
General contractor: Ediltecnica spa
Stone furniture FUKSAS DESIGN: Scalpellino Maurizio Volpi
Wood furniture FUKSAS DESIGN: Falegnameria Bertini
Lighting FUKSAS DESIGN: Iguzzini illuminazione
Project Year: 2001-2009
Photographs: Moreno Maggi
Architect: Massimiliano & Doriana Fuksas
Location: New York, USA
Programme: Emporio Armani, Giorgio Armani, Armani Casa, Armani Dolci, Armani Ristorante
Design Team: Sara Bernardi, Alfio Faro, Andrea D’Antrassi, Chiara Marchionni, Rossella Mastronardi
Furniture Design: Ana Gugic, Farshid Tavakolitehrani, Lucrezia Rendace
Model Makers: Nicola Cabiati, Lucrezia Rendace, Jaim Telias
3D Model & Render: Giuseppe Zaccaria, Jaim Telias, Stratos Christofidellis, Valerio Romondia, Giorgos Machairas
Construction year: 2007-2009
Lighting Consultant: Speirs & Major Associates
Project Consultant on Site: Davide Stolfi
Structural Engineering: Gilberto Sarti
Client: Gruppo Giorgio Armani
Art Work: Mimmo Paladino
Site Area: 7.000 sqm
Constructed Area: 2.500 sqm
Photographs: Studio Fuksas
Architect: Massimiliano & Doriana Fuksas
Location: Jaffa, Tel Aviv, Israel
Programme: Auditorium, Offices, Library, Cafe, Lobby
Construction year: 2008
Interior Design: Fuksas
Site work supervisor: Michal Schaffer
Client: Pares Centre for Peace
Landscape Architects: TEMA
Art Work: Mimmo Paladino
Site Area: 7.000 sqm
Constructed Area: 2.500 sqm
Photographs: Moreno Maggi
The European Commission and the Mies van der Rohe Foundation has just announced the final five projects that will compete for the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture, the Mies van der Rohe Award 2009. The winning building will be announced in May.
The five finalists are:
Multimodal Centre-Nice Tramway / Nice, France / by Marc Barani – Atelier Marc Barani
Zenith Music Hall / Strasbourg, France / by Massimiliano Fuksas, Doriana Fuksas – Massimiliano Fuksas Architecture
University Luigi Bocconi / Milan, Italy / by Shelley McNamara, Yvonne Farrell – Grafton Architects
The Norwegian Opera & Ballet / Oslo, Norway / by Kjetil Træaedal Thorsen, tarald Lundevall, Craig Dykers – Snøhetta
Library, Senior Citizen’ Centre and City Block Core Zone, Sant Antoni District / Barcelona, Spain / by Rafael Aranda, Carme Pigem, Ramon Vilalta – RCR Aranda Pigem Vilalta Arquitectes
This morning we had the honor of interviewing Massimiliano Fuksas at the chilean Biennale.
It was a great interview, along with others we conducted during this last month, that we are going to publish soon, so be ready.
After the interview, we continued talking down the hall with Mr Fuksas about the conception of his projects, and all of a sudden he asks “can i draw it?” and while i was looking for some paper, he just took out his pencil and started drawing on a column at the museum where the Biennale is being held. On the above picture you can see the relation between Fuksas’s mind and heart, on which according to his explanation the importance is on the space between them: the conflict. Something very interesting that i can’t explain here, but i hope that you can understand from the interview.
After that it came the funny part, as the museum staff noticed this “graffiti” and freaked out, since the Contemporary Art Museum is an ancient building. Some wanted to erase it, some wanted to frame it. But it’s still there, and will stay until the Biennale ends next weekend.
Architect: Doriana e Massimiliano Fuksas
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Programme: Multibrand – GIORGIO ARMANI, EMPORIO ARMANI, ARMANI/RISTORANTE, ARMANI/PRIVE’
Construction year: December 2005 – November 2007
Site: Ginza, CHUO-KU TOKIO
Client: Gruppo Giorgio Armani
Interior and Furniture Design Team: Filippo Bich, Ana Gugic & Maria Lucrezia Rendace
Lighting design: Speirs & Major Associates
Area: 7,370 sqm
Architect: Massimiliano Fuksas
Location: Strasbourg, France
Programme: Zenith Music Hall (10.000 seats)
Construction year: 2008
Site: Municipality of Eckbolsheim, Strasbourg
Client: Città di Strasburgo (CUS) Delegate
Consultants: Concrete Betom / Acoustics Altia / Scenography Architecture and Technique
Area: 14.000 sqm
Photographs: Moreno Maggi & Philippe Ruault
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