San Giacomo Church and Parish Center, Ferrara (in construction)
First Prize- Architect Miralles Tagliabue EMBT
- Type Place of worship Religious / Memorial Church
- Material Concrete
- Date 2012
- City Ferrara
- Country Italy
- Photographer Paolo Fassoli
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
