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Via Tirreno Redevelopment

The project area covers a volume bound by large apartment buildings in the working-class neighborhood of Cocuzzo in Potenza. The space is that left between two rows of buildings, covered by a street that...

Trollstigen National Tourist Route

Located on Norway’s west coast,Trollstigen is perched within a dramatic pass between the deep fjords that characterize the region. This panoramic site can only be visited and constructed in summer, due to severe winter...

scrivere lo spazio – Gordon Young

Writing space The artistic narration of places in the work of Gordon Young Thanks to the written language we can recount a story, describe an event, share a desire, protest or praise, condemn or absolve. The...

Natural Geometry

For a long time I took only black-and-white photographs. But about seven years ago, I realized that there were so very many landscapes that I could not photograph or that I did not do...

Expo 2010 Shanghai “Better City, Better Life”

China pavilion - photo by Luciano Romano If we cannot but wonder why it should be necessary to organize, participate or even simply visit a World Exposition when the web – from Google Maps to...

Esposizione Universale di Shanghai, le città al microscopio

Shanghai World Expo, a Microscopic View of Cities World: Cities? Cities! The 2010 World Expo to be hosted in Shanghai is the first of its kind to take city as its theme whereas most of the...

Il tema dell’Expo Shanghai 2010 e il suo significato

The Theme of Expo 2010 Shanghai and its Significance Summary: The key value of the theme of Expo 2010 is the urban sustainability, to explore the global urbanization in urban century in order to meet the...

Masterplan Expo Shanghai

Wu Zhiqiang, Wu Zhiqiang, Dean of the College of Architecture and Planning at Tongji University, Shanghai, is also Chief Planner of World Expo Shanghai 2010 and proposed the “H-city” (harmony city) scheme as the...

China Pavilion

China Pavilion consists of two parts – China Pavilion and China’s Joint Provincial Pavilion. Rendering a gross floor area of 160,126 m2 (including 9,005 sqm projected area of overhang construction) among which the gross...

Korea Pavilion

Han-geul, the Korean alphabet, is the prime element of ’signs’ within the pavilion. The overall volume, lifted 7.2 m above ground level, is created by converging these Han-geul letters, allowing signs to create the...

Denmark Pavilion

The Danish pavilion does not only exhibit the Danish virtues. Through interaction, the visitors are able to actually experience some of Copenhagen’s best attractions – the city bike, the harbor bath, the playground and...

Finland Pavilion

The Finnish pavilion at the Shanghai World Expo 2010 is called Kirnu (“Giant‘s kettle”). Designed by JKMM, an architect‘s office in Helsinki, Kirnu won first prize in the design competition announced in May 2008,...