In view of 2020 Olympics, the countdown in the competition between Roma and Venice has started. Between the 15th and 20th of May, Coni (Italian National Olympic Committee) will chose the Italian candidate for the organization of 2020 Olympic games. Final appointment will be made in Buenos Aires (...)

Beginning in 1996, the history of People Mover is a long one. It started with the definition of a possible lay-out included in the reorganization plan for three major areas of access to Venice: Piazzale Roma, Tronchetto and the ferry terminal. After a long planning process and late work (...)

Compared to the North-West, the Northeast appears as a territory still largely based on manufacturing activities. The economical crisis is strongly affecting it in terms of occupation, services and infrastructures. In a region that for thirty years has been self-sufficient, the competitive (...)

In November 2008, in the framework of the European community project TEN-T (Trans-European Transport Network) the Commission granted the funding request advanced by Italian Ministry for Public Infrastructures and transportation and SAVE, acting as implementing body. The funding will be used to (...)

During the following months the “trenino rosso” (red shuttle running above ground level) will start carrying passengers from Tronchetto to Piazzale Roma in only three minutes. Connecting the ferry terminal bank with the opposite bank on the Tronchetto island, the new People Mover bridge is the (...)

“If I want to go for a walk plunging in the art of the past I go to Venice. If I want to see an international exhibition I choose Palazzo Grassi. I would like to find here what I can’t find in Venice.” * * IPSOS interview, Mestre, March 2008 Fondazione Venezia’s decision to realize Project 9 in (...)

Especially in our country is never easy to conciliate quality and good architectonic and urban characteristics with the creation and operation of public infrastructures. Then if giving good living conditions to the weakest part of the population is at stake, the situation becomes even more (...)

The fourth bridge over the Grand Canal, “Ponte della Costituzione”, was built over a period of five years (2003 - 2008) after a project of Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava (94 m. long, 9,38 m. wide in the central part, 7,05 m. maximum height, 420 tons is the weight of the iron structure). In (...)