He seemed to be the only competitor and he was supported by the mayor Massimo Cacciari, but on September 20th, at the deadline of the call for tender for the administration of the Punta in Dogana, François Pinault, the new director of Palazzo Grassi, found a big competitor: the Solomom R. (...)

Calle delle Beccarie 792 at San Giobbe: a building of 1800 has been restored properly, following the criteria usually applied to historical monuments, in order to make out four lodgings that will be assigned on the base of the municipal classifications, of which one of them will be reserved for (...)

For decades in Venice they have ben discussing, between many other issues, about the “Arsenale affair”. In recent times the issue has been tackled by the City Council Administration, within the framework of the proposal inside the Program of Urban Renewal and of Sustainable Territorial (...)

The idea behind the exposition is to reform the system of road signs of Venice, a city which is by itself a maze, almost a medina into which it is really easy to lose oneself. The proposal has been immediately accepted by the president of the Consorzio Venezia Nuova, Consortium for a New (...)

The idea of the Chart of Urban Transformations originated from the need to have at disposal a communication channel with the city, in order to talk about the development of particularly relevant and complex projects, as to the high number of people involved, the importance of the areas and the (...)

It is almost twenty years that my working life interlaces with the development of Venice, to begin with my convinced participation to the adventure of Expo 2000, and continuing with steady and punctual considerations about the dynamic of the city, especially concerning its integration with all (...)

The official opening of the San Giuliano Park, Europe’s biggest green area, took place on the 8 of May this year. The events scheduled in the week-ends following the opening strenghtened the role of this area as a city’s public space, open to everybody. It is a wide area of around 700 hectares (...)

There are 50 days left to the inauguration of the new bridge on the Canal Grande, in accordance with the project of the architect Calatrava. Until 1850 the Canal Grande was crossed exclusively by the majestic and overly famous Rialto bridge: there were no other structures crossing the winding (...)