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05-08-2011

Mazzanti: Timayui elementary school

Giancarlo Mazzanti’s plan for a new elementary school is based on the idea that architecture can become a tool for the rebirth of a neighbourhood, an instrument of social cohesion and of pride in belonging to a place. If the building also offers an example of optimal use of energy resources, the project is worth a mention in the Fassa Bortolo Prize for Sustainable Architecture.

12-07-2011

Torino, Architetture Rivelate award

“Architetture Rivelate” – Revealed Architectures - is an award presented annually since 2004 by the Order of Architects of Turin to encourage qualified demand in the city, a plaque for award-winning buildings to make good examples of architecture easily recognisable even to the non-expert eye.

11-07-2011

Dominique Coulon: Josephine Baker school

In La Courneuve, a Paris suburb undergoing social renewal under a new urban planning scheme, Dominique Coulon has designed a nursery school and elementary school over the ruins of a decaying apartment block which was demolished in 2004. The new project does not deny the history of the place but carries it forward in a design which draws on the memories of the site to give it is present orangey hue.