The new city hall, now demolished, involves different volumes in a dialogue that is also eloquent through the different materials used. Among them, reinforced concrete gives the building the solidity appropriate to the institution, made transparent by the large glass openings. The round line of the council chamber marks the space that houses the assembly, the highest expression of the local community. The activities established in the three floors are distributed so that those with greater relationship with the public remain located on the ground floor, while the highest floor houses the more reserved activities. The intervention also rearranges the outdoor square to provide the township with an open meeting and gathering place. Demolition testifies to what architecture can still do in society: it shakes people’s spirits, creates rifts of opinion, and remains “the most political art.”
Designers: Studio Caruso_Mainardi Architects
Photographs: Paolo Rosselli
