area 125 – cino zucchi cza

Marco Casamonti and Cino Zucchi in CZA office. Photo by Pietro Savorelli To suggest a critical reading of an architect and a work that is so close both on a…

Marco Casamonti: We did not decide to do a monographic issue on your work based on considerations of an “autarchic“ nature on Italian architectural culture, but rather because we are…

View of Cino Zucchi Architetti office  in Milan – photo by Pietro Savorelli After the three-way conversation – Casamonti, Tamburelli, Zucchi – Area proposes and participates in a conversation via…

The installation by CZA gives body to the idea that formal cultures propagate through “contagious” processes which combine imitation and innovation, creating sequences of artefacts linked by subtle variations on…

The recurring analogies between city and biological organisms incorporated in our language over the centuries demonstrate our sense of guilt toward Mother Nature and her presumed infallibility. They speak of…

The design for the facade in Rue Neuve, is the combination of two different interpretations. The first regards its physical location, its concrete surroundings; the second comes from a more…

The site of the project is situated in the north-west corner of the new intervention, straddled between the bustle of daily life of the avenues that connect the area to…

A Plaster Mosaic. The new residential building is part of a large urban renewal project next to the Ravenna station on both sides of an artificial canal serving as a…

An environmental sculpture for the city of Lugano. Tunnels are “wounds” inflicted on geology to facilitate human movements. Their history is ancient, glorious and violent, but today the techniques have…

The context (an industrial suburb of Milan) and the existing building to be replaced (a warehouse converted church-hall built by a group of worker priest in the 1960s) generated a…

The museum complex, designed by Amedeo Albertini in 1958-60, is comprised of various bodies, the main section of which, a convex 114 meter façade faces onto the Po river and…

New urban landscapes. The U15 building is located in the new Milanofiori Nord district which is being built according to the master plan designed by Erick van Egeraat, in an area…

The new headquarters for the sportswear brand Salewa, one of the most prominent manufacturers in Bolzano, is situated in an exceptional location adjacent to the Bolzano highway suggesting a “landscape”…

The station of Pasila is located a few kilometres from the city centre, in a point that is very accessible to both rail and road transport, which will be supplemented…

The Vismara area is inextricably linked to the center of Casatenovo, and its reform represents a unique opportunity to rethink the entire structure of the town and its relationship with the…

A flowing boulevard, an urban river. The center of Tirana is characterized by a clear urban layout, but its recent growth created a large area around it without any order,…

An architectural story Without attempting any shortcuts of a “mimetic” kind – that often reveal their superficial and opportunistic character on closer examination – the project rereads, in a contemporary…

Tall volumes that overlook the hilly landscape, resting on block-shaped foundations that define a new system of public spaces and enclose green courts: the urban model adopted by the master…

The walls around the former Dairy Central, which historically only served a functional purpose today delimit a “missing block” in the city, a space excluded from its life, which the…

The masterplan for the new area of social housing in Cascina Merlata proposes a dense residential quarter of high volumes alternating with communal gardens. The design of two residential towers…

If each building of the Metanopoli history represents the culture and values of the era when it was built, their sequence can now become the “genetic code“ of a new evolution,…

The design proposed for the new Lavazza headquarters of and the renovation of the former Enel power station near Largo Brescia shows a profound appreciation of the history of the…

The concept at the base of the project is clearly represented by the longitudinal section of the structure, where it is possible to identify two complimentary bodies that characterize the…

The bombs that fell on Milano in 1943 left a wounded city. Many architects, even famous ones, worked as “barefoot doctors” to catalogue the level of conservation of the buildings…