San Giacomo Church and Parish Center, Ferrara (in construction)
First Prize
San Giacomo Church and Parish Center, Ferrara (in construction)

San Giacomo Church and Parish Center, Ferrara (in construction)

First Prize


Outside the ideal city that the architect and urbanist Biagio Rossetti built for Ercole d’Este, Duke of Ferrara, in Renaissance times, the Church and Parish of San Giacomo contrasts its organic contour and open form against the compact and rigid nature of the neighboring buildings. Designed by the Barcelona-based practice headed by Benedetta Tagliabue, the new place of worship radially unfurls a series of parabolic vaults and makes them converge in a skylight set high above the altar, over which also looms an enormous horizontal cross made of pieces of timber that were left over from the refurbishment of the historic Palazzo Municipale...[+][+]


San Giacomo Church and Parish Center

Cliente Client
Parrocchia di San Giacomo Apostolo

Arquitectos Architects
Miralles Tagliabue EMBT

Arquitecto principal Principal architect
Benedetta Tagliabue

Director de proyecto Project director
Joan Callís

Equipo de proyecto Project team
Gabriele Rotelli, Katrina Varian, Valentina Nicol Noris, Agustina Mascetti, Angelos Siampakoulis, Bárbara Ruschel Lorenzoni, Cj Rogers, Ernesto López, Guido Aybar Maino, Grant Mc Cormick, Gonzalo Peña, Irene Botas Cal, Jiyoun Park, Lauren Lochry, Lorenzo Trucato, Marta Ruiz Benito, Oscar Lopez

Colaboradores Collaborators
Enzo Cucchi (artista artist), Vincenzo Gatti (liturgista liturgist)

Fotos Photos
Paolo Fassoli