Acciaio Arte Architettura | English Version

“My convictions about restoration work that have been built up over long years of teaching, research and application (projects and sites)”

One of the main objectives of ARCAM (ARchitectural Center Amsterdam) is to offer academics and visitors a complete panorama of the most recent urban and architectural developments, and what better place than the heart of these transformations in Amsterdam.

The formal and the functional restoration of buildings that have marked history has always been one of the most interesting topics of architectonical working. Despite this, the operation of “re-discovering”, giving new life to what has been forgotten, perhaps people were forced to forget or did so by choice, is not always able to give new meaning to architectonic works which were thought and planned to meet needs that nowadays are completely meaningless.

The Alvano house was envisioned by the architects Meinhard Von Gerkan and Nikolaus Goetze as a simple volume, characterized by an essential geometry and a flat linear cover. The residential unit is designed to respect the surrounding environment and harmoniously integrates itself in the large park, part of an urban plot of residential neighbourhood in Hamburg.

Utopia or wonderful reality? A large area that is destined to become the new temple of music is appearing on the Roman cultural scene, promising to become the new throbbing heart of Jazz in Italy.