Verona Forum
Verona, Italy
- Office Buildings
- Sports Complexes
- Hotels + Hostels + Guest Houses
- Restaurants, Bars, Clubs
- Spa + Welness
- Commercial Buildings
- Conference + Congress Centers
- Architects
- Mario Bellini Architects
- Year
- 2011
- Client
- Veroa Forum Spa - Villafranca of Verona
- Team
- Mario Bellini with Giovanni Cappelletti and Carlo Malnati, Collaborators: Giovanni Pigni, Egle De Luca, Alessandro Zufferli, Dario Varetto, Andrea Volpato
- General Contractor
- Costruire s.r.l, Verona
- Facades
- Tosoni – Facciate Continue, Villafranca di Verona
- Mechanical and electrical services
- Manens Intertecnica s.r.l., Verona
- Acoustic engineering
- Manens Intertecnica s.r.l., Verona
- Steel Costruction
- Cordioli & c, Valeggio di Verona
- Electronic Systems
- Far Systems, Rovereto
- Local Architect
- JTS Engineering s.r.l., Villafranca di Verona
- Structure
- Studio Ingegneria Pivetta, Verona
A complex made up of two buildings 45 metres high with a base of three floors above ground that connect the buildings and render the project uniform, for use as a hotel, office, wellness centre, services.
The “low” buildings define the relationship with the cityscape by characterising the street layout at a scale of perception closer to man; instead the “freely” articulated “high” buildings relate to the city skyline.
The contrast between the rigorous simplicity of the low structures and the strong articulation of the “towers” is the compositional theme that recalls a vision of composition that is quasi-“futurist”.
It is Boccioni’s “The City Rises” with a calibrated relationship between the glass, the opaque portions, and the free markings on the façades that fascinate Bellini this time.
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