Mario Cucinella Architects   Italy   A 19th-century palazzo has been adapted to house a collection of Etruscan art, part of which is displayed in a hypogeum reminiscent of funerary constructions of the Lazio region. Continuous rows of Florentine sandstone give contour to a grotta dug un

Mario Cucinella Architects   Italy   The thorough refurbishment of a group of medieval houses included an underground extension and a terrace that provides a close-packed Tuscan town with a new public space. An interior route threads together the existing constructions and gives visual

Mario Cucinella Architects   Italy   Applying its principles, a regional agency for the environment incorporates passive energy-saving strategies into its offices, minimizing the need for climate-control systems. Besides providing daylight aplenty, a roof with 112 greenhouse-type skylig

Mario Cucinella Architects   Italy   A parish center located in the very heart of Calabria presents solutions for an architecture that is loaded with references but does not forget to incorporate sustainable mechanisms. The temple is fitted into a sinuous white volume around which the S

Mario Cucinella Architects   Italy   A fruit of the collaboration between Mario Cucinella Arquitectos – based in Bologna and New York – and WASP (World’s Advanced Saving Project), the Italian company specialized in 3D printing, this circular housing prototype made of soil is located in

Mario Cucinella Architects   Italy   The Bologna firm of Mario Cucinella built this kindergarten in Guastalla, in the Italian province of Reggio Emilia. Replacing two schools that were damaged in the earthquake the shook the zone in 2012, the building is expressly designed to stimulate

Mario Cucinella Architects   Italy   The ‘farm of knowledge’ combines green areas with architecture, conceiving each part of the complex as a ‘living organism’ that is capable of producing energy, oxygen and in the case of the student dorms, of absorbing atmospheric pollution... 

Three decades after starting out in the profession under Renzo Piano, Mario Cucinella (Palermo, 1960) now runs one of Italy’s busiest architecture offices, carrying out from his offices in Bologna and Milan a continuous stream of projects that, more

A sicilian architect based in the city of Bologna, Mario Cucinella has designed a church devoted to St. Maria Goretti in Mormanno, a Calabrian town in the very heart of Pollino National Park. A cross is cut onto the surface of a sober white volume of

A philosopher who loved architecture, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, wrote in the year 1822 that making holes in the earth was perhaps more natural than raising poles or pillars on the surface, and that it perhaps made much more sense to think of the

Justo Isasi   Hi-tech, sostenibilidad, formas de moda y paisaje. Todos los tópicos que se exigen para acreditar a una arquitectura de nuestra época encuentran respuesta en la obra de Mario Cucinella (Palermo, 1960). El compromiso de su estudio milanés con la actua

Anna Giorgi   Rome  2006  
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