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The Italian Pavilion Expo 2025 Osaka / Mario Cucinella Architects + Yoshiki Matsuda Architects

Hadir Al Koshta — Sun, 29 Jun 2025 02:00:00 +0000

Mario Cucinella, Architect and Founder of MCA, commented: "Designing the Italian Pavilion for Expo 2025 Osaka is a unique opportunity to create a true stage, not only to showcase the culture, history, and innovation of our country but also to establish a space for fostering connections: for future dialogue, for strengthening cultural, social, and economic ties. Aligned with one of the Expo's themes, 'Saving Lives', the project and its architectural and technological content, as well as the choices of material, propose a renewed balance among humanity, nature, and technology. The Italian Pavilion can become a powerful tool to promote, inspire action, and establish new synergies for the development of a more sustainable future. It represents a new vision of society and the city: a living organism where the relationships among people, art, the environment, and history can come alive." The Italian Pavilion for Expo 2025 Osaka is presented as a living, regenerative ecosystem, capable of embodying the continuous dialogue among tradition and innovation, art and science, craftsmanship and technology. Designed and built by MCA – Mario Cucinella Architects, the Pavilion is conceived as a dynamic and immersive laboratory, offering a journey through Italy, told via a series of sensory and narrative experiences that actively engage the visitor.

Valle d’Aosta University Campus / Mario Cucinella Architects

Hadir Al Koshta — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 07:00:00 +0000

Recovering a site for new cultural activities - Located in a central area near Aosta's historic center, MCA's project focuses on conserving and repurposing the existing main buildings of the former Testafochi Barracks, and the construction of a university campus. Whilst the project is strongly recognizable as a landmark in present-day Aosta, it respects the plan arrangement of the original system but revolutionizes the whole area by opening it up to the city. The buildings are designed to contain spaces for teaching and shared activities for the various faculties, which can accommodate approximately 2000 students. The new project enhances cultural activities by expanding the heritage of green areas and integrating them to form a system that passes across the city.

NICE Headquarters Brazil / Mario Cucinella Architects

Paula Pintos — Tue, 12 Mar 2024 07:00:00 +0000

Nice, an Italian multinational leader in the Smart Home sector automation, has opened its new Brazilian 20,000 square meter manufacturing base in the industrial district of Campinas, Limeira, a city located northwest of São Paulo. The building designed by Mario Cucinella Architects also houses the company’s International Research & Development Centre and serves as its Brazilian headquarters.

Fondazione Luigi Rovati / Mario Cucinella Architects

Paula Pintos — Fri, 05 May 2023 06:00:00 +0000

The seven-year project for the Fondazione Luigi Rovati marks the completion of the renovation and remodeling of Milan’s 19th Century Palazzo Bocconi-Rizzoli-Carraro by Mario Cucinella Architects. The wholly new underground galleries of the Foundation’s Etruscan collection are at the core of this innovative addition to the city’s cultural and civic life at 52 Corso Venezia. In addition to the Etruscan galleries, the Fondazione Luigi Rovati’s art museum houses two floors of exhibition space, conservation facilities, an archive, a study room connected with the Luigi Rovati Foundation Library in Monza, and event rooms, a bookshop, a café as well as a restaurant on its top floor.

Roma Tre University Building / Mario Cucinella Architects

Paula Pintos — Fri, 09 Dec 2022 10:00:00 +0000

Three elliptical green and white steel-framed towers, a glass-faced auditorium with a street frontage, a new public piazza, and a raised “hanging garden” are the key distinguishing elements of the Rectorate of Roma Tre, a striking new development designed by Mario Cucinella Architects at the heart of Rome’s third university.

San Raffaele Hospital / Mario Cucinella Architects

Bianca Valentina Roșescu — Tue, 10 May 2022 23:00:00 +0000

An inherently humane response to designing an energy-conscious hospital environment. San Raffaele Hospital is an internationally celebrated model for bringing together scientific research, teaching, and clinical activities to create a highly specialized emergency room (ER) in Milan and a pioneering 284-bed inpatient care facility of national importance in Italy.

Santa Maria Goretti Church / Mario Cucinella Architects

Andreas Luco — Fri, 24 Dec 2021 06:00:00 +0000

Solitary, serene, and monolithic, the new parish church of Santa Maria Goretti rises from the northern edge of the Calabrian hill town Mormanno, commanding views of the mountainous Pollino National Park. Designed by Mario Cucinella Architects the exterior of this elemental and sentinel-like building draws inspiration from natural forms as well as from the tradition of austere and beautiful apsidal Calabrian churches built by monks from the eastern reaches of the former Roman Empire escaping conquest and persecution. The result is an innovative church, dedicated to Saint Maria Goretti (1890-1902) - the Catholic Church’s youngest saint - that, although a new building, appears to stand outside time.

Palazzo Senza Tempo / Mario Cucinella Architects

Paula Pintos — Tue, 30 Nov 2021 02:00:00 +0000

Revival of an Italian Hilltown. Designed by Mario Cucinella Architects for the historic centre of Peccioli, Palazzo Senza Tempo is a response to the municipal administration’s desire to encourage new cultural programmes and commercial activity while enhancing the built heritage of this Medieval Tuscan hilltown.

TECLA Technology and Clay 3D Printed House / Mario Cucinella Architects

Paula Pintos — Tue, 27 Apr 2021 02:00:00 +0000

The first eco-sustainable housing model 3D printed entirely from local raw earth. This genuinely innovative and pioneering approach was conceived from the start as a joint project between the two firms, who worked closely throughout the project’s design and construction.

Iperceramica Headquarters / Mario Cucinella Architects

Valeria Silva — Fri, 16 Apr 2021 14:00:00 +0000

The project of the new office building of Bayker-Iperceramica was born to be a simple and functional envelope, characterized by a strongly contemporary image. The new headquarters will be developed on two levels above ground for a total of approximately 1,700 square meters. The load-bearing structures were designed in prefabricated exposed wood elements (laminated wood pillars, load-bearing partitions, and X-Lam floors), thus ensuring the use of the latest construction technologies in terms of materials, sustainability and prefabrication systems.

Workshop Ricostruzione - The Sports and Culture Center / Mario Cucinella Architects

Collin Chen — Wed, 15 Jul 2020 12:00:00 +0000

Building and Hay Bales
The sports and cultural center is located near the city center and is the most important symbol of Bondeno's rebirth of social life after the earthwake. The main body of the building is two cylindrical buildings. Its shape draws inspiration from the typical shape of hay bales in the local rural landscape. The design is rooted in the unique local traditional characteristics of the building, providing a new public cultural space for local residents.

Workshop Ricostruzione - The Youth Activity Center / Mario Cucinella Architects

Collin Chen — Mon, 13 Jul 2020 01:00:00 +0000

Architecture and function
The project is located on the outskirts of Quistello, Mantua and is part of the government's redevelopment plan after the earthquake. The project includes a youth activity center and a 2,000-square-meter park. Although the public building is mainly used by young people under the age of 18, it is flexible enough to be used by businesses, individuals, college students and young people for the vents and meetings. This is a single-storey building divided into two areas, namely service space and activity space.

Workshop Ricostruzione - The New Dance School / Mario Cucinella Architects

Collin Chen — Fri, 10 Jul 2020 10:00:00 +0000

Architecture and Plan. The new dance school is designed to replace the old building damaged by the earthquake. The building adopts a rectangular plan and is equipped with a fir wood structure and wood veneer. The use of natural materials is conducive to reducing the damage to the environment and protecting the fragile ecosystem after the earthquake.

Workshop Ricostruzione - The Social Health Center / Mario Cucinella Architects

Collin Chen — Thu, 09 Jul 2020 01:00:00 +0000

Concept and space
The social health center in the San Felice sul Panaro area will provide services for disabled people, as well as provide health care services for nine cities in northern Modena. The land around the building site is filled with various crops, which inspired the shape of the building barn, and these familiar images create a sense of security for the residents. The social health center is divided into two floors, the ground floor is the activity area, and the top floor is the rest area. The building consists of 4 interrelated volumes, which are only visible from the outside, while the interior is a continuous spatial form.

Workshop Ricostruzione - The House of Music / Mario Cucinella Architects

Collin Chen — Tue, 07 Jul 2020 03:00:00 +0000

Architecture and Musical Instruments
The House of Music was created not only to accommodate as the music classroom for two local music teaching institutions, but also to become a public concert hall for residents. Its architectural style is an inheritance of the region’s long-standing music tradition, and the plan consists of 9 interconnected circular spaces. The relationship between them is a metaphor for various instruments in an orchestra, which can be used for solo or ensemble. When the power is added together, it will produce a very shocking effect. The reference to musical instruments in the building is also achieved through oak siding, wall panels and roofs. They are not only materials and visual effects, at the same time, it has both functionality and can amplify the sound to achieve the effect of a speaker.

Centro “Arti e Scienze” Golinelli / Mario Cucinella Architects

Pilar Caballero — Fri, 29 Mar 2019 00:00:00 +0000

A place where Art, Science and Technology talking to each other. The idea of the Center “Arts and Sciences” fits with the idea of defending body and material representation to scientific and artistic evolution, discipline in perennial becoming, basing their intentions on research and continuous experimentation.

Sino-Italian Ecological and Energy Efficient Building / Mario Cucinella Architects

Rayen Sagredo — Wed, 27 Sep 2017 00:00:00 +0000

Born out from a joint venture between the Italian and Chinese Governments, SIEEB was built on the campus of Tsinghua University, it occupies an area of 20,000 m2 and hosts the Sino-Italian centre of education, training and research for the protection of environment and energy conservation.

House of Music / Mario Cucinella Architects

Daniel Tapia — Mon, 19 Jun 2017 07:00:00 +0000

The House of Music of Pieve di Cento was born out of the desire to create structures and spaces suitable for two programs: concert promotion and musical teaching in the municipality: the Music Society of Pieve and a Middle School with musical emphasis.