Maurice Nio / NIO architecten. Pecci Center for Contemporary Art, Prato, Italy.

August 29, 2016
The Pecci Center began life in 1988 and was the first institution in Italy specifically built from scratch for exhibiting, collecting, conserving and documenting the most advanced artistic research. It is set to become an international reference point for the experimentation of multiple contemporary art languages. In October 2016 the Pecci Center reopens after the completion of the futuristic spaceship-shaped extension by Rotterdam-based Indonesian architect Maurice Nio, titled "Sensing the Waves," and the renovation of the original building designed by Rationalist architect Italo Gamberini.

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Maurice Nio / NIO architecten. Pecci Center for Contemporary Art, Prato, Italy. (Photo: Mario Gianni).

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Congregating resources helps to face new design challenges.

May 23, 2016
Multiple actions, widely distributed through selected Italian cities, are underway to collect proposals and effective solutions to emergent design challenges. Diverse topics are at the basis of meetings between Italian and Dutch professionals, promoted by the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Rome. That's Sfide delle Città.

Time for Impact, curated by Gianpiero Venturini (Itinerant Office / New Generations) together with Marthijn Pool (space&matter) is one of the 7 projects financed by the Embassy after a call that was launched last year. It will take place during the 15. Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, starting May 26, 7:00 PM with an open discussion and a party at the Serra dei Giardini.

Time for Impact is a an online platform that works as an Architectural Time Bank and Kickstarting Tool, promoting urgent challenges in the built environment that are in need of design expertise, spatial know-how and budget. Creative people from all over the world are invited to pledge their time and know-how to collectively boost socially relevant projects.

"This years' Biennale, curated by Alejandro Aravena, highlights a broad selection of projects that showcase a high impact factor," the Italian and Dutch curators say. "As architecture touches on all relevant levels of society, we consider it's important to increase public awareness of the phenomenon. Architecture has risked to grow apart from society in the past few decades. However younger generations of architects are fully aware of their role and potential for impact on society, when using their skills in the right way."

Please also follow the other actions, part of the Sfide delle Città program, curated by Denise Houx and Inge de Boer (ROOFdinners, Milan and Turin), BAM! Strategie Culturali and Polo museale della Campania with Rijksmuseum and Open Cultuur Data (Wikimuseums, Naples), Carlo Capra and Associazione 4Tunnel with IammyCity (Spazi Centrali, Milan), Jeroen Laven and Gert Jan te Velde with Università Roma Tre and Eutropian (The City at Eye Level, Rome), Temporiuso and SUPERUSE Studios (Mappa dei cicli di riuso dei Mercati Generali, Milan), Itinerant Office / New Generations and Amateur Cities (Urgent City, Florence.)

In order to sustain with communication actions this project and the others carried out all over Italy in 2016 Image developed for the Embassy of The Kingdom of the Netherlands in Rome a flexible strategy aiming at keeping together professionals from both Italy and The Netherlands and summarizing the results of this extraordinary venture.

Please join us in Venice at Serra dei Giardini on May 26 to take part in this action, starting 7:00 PM, and follow the Sfide delle Città program on social media.
Please join us in Venice at Serra dei Giardini on May 26 to take part in this action, starting 7:00 PM, and follow the Sfide delle Città program on the social media.

Flores & Prats Architects + Duch-Pizá. Casal Balaguer, Palma de Mallorca, Spain.

May 21, 2016
The new Cultural Center Casal Balaguer, designed by Flores & Prats with Duch-Pizá, is completed. The project is a renovation of a historical house in the center of Palma de Mallorca. After a two- decade long process that had architects Ricardo Flores and Eva Prats confront themselves with the physicality of history, a new surprising life has been given to the building.

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Flores & Prats Architects + Duch-Pizá. Casal Balaguer, Palma de Mallorca, Spain. (Photo: Adrià Goula).

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Mork-Ulnes Architects. Troll Hus in Sugar Bowl, California.

February 22, 2016
Mork-Ulnes Architects just completed a cozy, contemporary and eco-friendly retreat in a ski village perched atop Lake Tahoe's Donner Summit in the Sierra Nevada, in northern California. Troll Hus was commissioned by a retired couple as a second home for their three children and partners, and seven grandchildren. A pleasant mountain haven for an extended family of fifteen, with a constant visual reference to nature.

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Mork-Ulnes Architects. Troll Hus in Sugar Bowl, California (photo: Bruce Damonte).

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Parco Centrale di Prato international competition.

February 16, 2016
The Municipality of Prato in Italy recently launched an international two-phase design competition for a new 3-hectare urban park in its historical center. This is a unique opportunity for this city in Tuscany to express a new, contemporary urban vision. For designers, this competitions may represent an occasion to reconsider the relationship between the historical city and the environment, today.

The deadline for applications is February 29, 2016. By mid-March the international jury -presided by Bernard Tschumi and including Michelle Provoost, Sébastien Marot, Roberto Zancan, and Francesco Procopio- will select a maximum of ten entrants who will be admitted to the competition phase. By the end of June a winner will be announced who will be commissioned with the project for the Parco Centrale di Prato.

When the Municipality of Prato entrusted us with media relations for this competition, we put into play all our experience and our network of contacts, so as to establish the best possible relationship between the city of Prato and the best designers who are active at a national and international level. At Image we are aware of the needs public administrations have and we hence based out actions on strong immediacy and accessibility. Our team is supporting the entire development of this program and our press office is constantly active to report on the competition process, to highlight the most prominent topics and to stimulate an active participation both on the part of citizens and of the widest community of professionals.

Please visit the official website and follow the evolution of the competition on its active social media pages
The deadline for applications is February 29, 2016.
By mid-March the international jury -presided by Bernard Tschumi and including Michelle Provoost, Sébastien Marot, Roberto Zancan, and Francesco Procopio- will select a maximum of ten entrants who will be admitted to the competition phase.
By the end of June a winner will be announced who will be commissioned with the project for the Parco Centrale di Prato.