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29 Jun 2013
Kindergarten in Rome
Design: Archiplus
Kindergarten Rome by Archiplus
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Kindergarten in Rome
It has always been a problem for the adult architect to design for children. A very basic one; since it’s virtually impossible for the adult to wear such tiny shoes once more and re-imagine the needs and the states of mind worn by children of early age (1-3 years in the case of this Kindergarten). With such task at hand, we came up with an assortment of ideas built around (or under) one overlying concept; that of having the necessary spaces being covered by a large suspended ‘shell’.

Museum of Contemporary Art Rome
Design: ODBC
Museum of Contemporary Art Rome
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Museum of Contemporary Art Rome
With the complexity given by the introduction of a Contemporary Art Gallery in an ancient mixed industrial building, the project is an opportunity to transgress an univalent attitude of an integration into a historical context. Moreover the Roman historical context is a challenge for this type of intervention. Inserted into the complexity of an ancient industrial estate and confronted to a historical patrimony, our project is resonating to the existing static condition of the site with dynamism, movement and evidence.

MAXXI Roma Event 2011 : ‘Y1/CITYVISION independent architecture stuff’

Over 500 architectural photographs added in 2008, © Adrian Welch

Rome Architecture – Major Recent Building

MAXXI : National Centre of Contemporary Arts Rome
2008
Design: Zaha Hadid Architects
MAXXI Rome
photograph : Roland Halbe
Maxxi Rome
Rome, November 12, 2009 – MAXXI, the National Museum of the XXI Century Arts – designed by Zaha Hadid Architects – sees the light.
Today, 12 November, with completion of the MAXXI building, the presentation to the Italian and international press and the architectural preview of the new museum took place in Rome. The following participated: the Minister for Cultural Heritage and Activities, Sandro Bondi, the Minister for Infrastructure, Altero Matteoli, the President of the MAXXI Foundation, Pio Baldi and the architect Zaha Hadid – the first woman to be awarded the Pritzker Prize in 2004 and recently the Praemium Imperiale Prize of the Japan Art Association – who illustrated “her” revolutionary and futuristic museum.

Contemporary Rome Architecture Designs

Rome Buildings – Contemporary + 20th Century Architecture

Ara Pacis Museum
Date built: 2006
Design: Richard Meier Architects
Ara Pacis Museum Rome
photograph © Adrian Welch
Ara Pacis Museum Rome

British Embassy
Date built: 1971
Design: Basil Spence
British Embassy building Rome
photograph © Adrian Welch
British Embassy building

Casa della Scherma – Fencing Hall

Design: Luigi Moretti

Conference centre
Date built: 2007
Daniele Durante

Congress Centre, EUR, south Rome
Dates built: 1998-2007
Massimiliano Fuksas Architects

Degli Effetti
Date built: 2000
Massimiliano Fuksas Architects

Exhibition Hall
Date built: 2007
ABDR Architetti Associati
2004 design competition

Gallery of Modern & Contemporary Art – proposal, Former Perroni brewery site

Odile Decq
Architecture Competition win

Gioventù Italiana Littoria, adj. Ara Pacis Museum
Dates built: 1932-37
Luigi Moretti
Italian Rationalist building
photograph © Adrian Welch
Italian Rationalist building

Jazz Planet
Date built: 2002
Massimiliano Fuksas Architects

Jubilee Church – Chiesa del Dio Padre Misericordioso
Date built: 2003
Richard Meier Architects
‘God our merciful father’

Lateran University Library
Date built: 2006
King Roselli Architetti

Mercati Generali redevelopment
2006-
Rem Koolhaas / OMA

Music Auditoria, north Rome

Design: Renzo Piano Building Workshop (RPBW)
Music Complex Rome
photograph © Adrian Welch
Music Complex Rome

National Gallery of Modern Art Expansion – Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna
2004-
Diener & Diener
International design competition winner – GNAM

Palazzo delle Esposizioni

Pio Piacentini

Palazzetto dello Sport
Date built: 1958
Pier Luigi Nervi
Palazzetto dello Sport
photograph © Adrian Welch
Palazzetto dello Sport

Piazza Augusteo, adj. Mausoleum of Augustus & Ara Pacis
Date built: 1937
V. Ballio-Morpugo
Piazza Augusteo buildings
photograph © Adrian Welch
Piazza Augusteo buildings

Sports City & Rectorate Tower
2007-
Santiago Calatrava
for Tor Vergata University

Tuscolano Museum
Dates built: 1998-2000
Massimiliano Fuksas Architects

University of Rome – Senate Building, EUR
Date built: 1935
M. Piacentini & Associates

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Architecture in Rome

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Roman Buildings : Traditional architecture

Stadio Olympico – SS Lazio & AS Roma Stadium
Date built: 1953
Annibale Vitellozzi
Stadio Olympico Roma
1960 Olympic Games venue + 1990 World Cup stadium

Stazione Termini – main railway Station, aka the Dinosaur
Date built: 1950
Leo Calini and Eugenio Montuori; Massimo Castellazzi, Vasco Fadigati, Achille Pintonello, Annibale Vitellozzi
Rome Railway Station : 1947 competition win

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