Extension of Youth Music School
The first phase of the Music school in Hamburg was finished in 2000. When designing this building there was already the intension for a second phase of the building: a new auditorium, the project...
Ministry of Urban Development and the Environment
The architecture of the new Ministry of Urban Development and the Environment helps to define a diverse, multicultural and integrative new district in a formerly neglected area of Hamburg. The building consists of two...
Redevelopment and Conversion of Elbe Island Kaltehofe
“Wasserkunst Elbinsel Kaltehofe” is a Hamburg Wasserwerke (Hamburg Waterworks) project initiated by the nature conservation organisation Schutzgemeinschaft Deutscher Wald (SDW) and part of the development and ecological Agenda 21 process. On the grounds of...
Cino Zucchi: from the MIT to the Polytechnic and back
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 personal level and on a...
Sentimental education a dialogue among Marco Casamonti, Pier Paolo Tamburelli and Cino Zucchi
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 interested in a line...
Grafting – a skype conversation between Steven Holl and Cino Zucchi
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 Skype between Cino Zucchi and...
Copycat. Empathy and envy as form makers
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 a common theme. Nine...
In the body of the city
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 urban tissue, green lungs,...
Benetton façade in rue Neuve
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 general perception of the...
S2-S3 residential buildings Ex-Rossi Catelli area
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 the centre and the...
Apartment building on the harbour
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 harbour for the industries of...
Vedeggio-Cassarate gallery
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 been refined to the point...