CANNATA & PARTNERS

Filippo Cannata has been performing an intense activity of planning and research in the field of lighting for about 30 years. In the wake of a long and continuous collaboration with artists and great masters of design and architecture, he realized fine interventions and artistic installations in different cities among the most important of the world. His projects, characterized by a strong emotional impact, obtained many awards and certificates of merit including the Edison Award of Merit, the Dedalus Award and the Prix Lumiville assigned by the city of Lyon (France).
He participates in national and international architectural competitions and…

RE-THINK MESSINA

The new City Council has re-started the reasoning on urban planning, deciding to “Re-think Messina” following two guiding principles: coherence and sharing.

The new shared PRG (as General Urban Plan), called PiCo (as Shared Plan), has seen a listening phase toward all citizens and thematic labs coordinated by urbanlab messina and the LabProCom of University of Reggio Calabria. The target choosen is to bring the Integrated Actions, started before, and news to a comprehensive and strategic land governance view, which it can establish the non-negotiable values and the resulting develop guidelines.

We’re working for the construction of a new idea of…

T1-T2 RAILWAY EXTENSION AT MALPENSA AIRPORT

The railway connecting Milano with Malpensa airport (Terminal 1) will be extended 3.6 km northward, enabling to reach Malpensa terminal T2 from Milano downtown in just 35’ avoiding present discomforts and time losses due to the connection by bus shuttle.
It has a capacity up to 8 train paths/h (over 250 trains/day). The new 400m long station enables also rail services operated by HS trains. The aim is to reach in the mid-term a 25% rail modal share to /from Malpensa.

The works represent the first phase of the link from Malpensa Airport to the North, that will be plugged onto…

REDEVELOPMENT WIDESPREAD IN BOLOGNA

Bologna has adopted urban development strategies that promote the redevelopment of disused public heritage and direct private intervention towards the recovery of areas with small-medium size.

With the unitary Plan of Territorial Development (PUVaT) we have 18 places (buildings and disused areas) of public property which together occupy about 1 million sqm and offer large and diversified potential for exploitation.
From the creation of “a great platform” accessible and relevant for territorial marketing operations at a national and international scale, to enhance cultural and historical interpretation of the city; from opportunities to redesign and build whole cities,…

RE-DESIGNING THE AREA APPIANI IN TREVISO

Already Appiani Graziano, creator of the historical company of tiles, driven by political and entrepreneurial passions, builts here in 1910, “his social village “: the Eden village.

An industrial complex with residences for their employees and places for their well-being, a theater, a cafe and other public spaces, because “… it was not the suburbs, but a new idea of the city” (Graziano Appiani). In the nineties, the area was acquired by the Foundation Cassamarca.

Today, in the area once occupied by the Opificio, there is a new area dedicated to hosting the Cittadella of the institutions of Treviso, which is…

NEW BNP PARIBAS HEADQUARTERS, ROME

The design for the new headquarters of BNP fits in a particular and unique context. Unique in that the nature of the environment is a stratification of infrastructures which from being as an element of separation between two significant urban areas of the city of Rome, today with the construction of the station for high-speed trains, takes on a new role not only of service but of “urban place”. Particularly in that the area on which stands the new building which, due to its geometrical shape and topography and its relative orientation, suggests thinking of the building according to…

FIV – FUND INVESTMENTS FOR OPTIMIZATION

CDP Investimenti Sgr is an asset management company formed on February 24, 2009 by Cassa depositi e prestiti Spa, together with ACRI-Association of Foundations and ABI-Italian Banking Association.
CDP Investimenti Sgr capital is owned 70% by the Cassa depositi e prestiti and 15% each from ACRI and ABI.

CDP Investimenti Sgr manages:

– the “investment facility for the living” (FIA) devoted to social housing
– the “investment facility for Redevelopment” (FIV) dedicated to the enhancement of public goods.

The FIV is an umbrella fund, articulated in the Plus and Extra Fund, dedicated to the enhancement of public buildings.

The subfund Plus (subscribed to 100…

FIA – INVESTMENT FACILITY FOR LIVING

CDP Investimenti Sgr is an asset management company formed on February 24, 2009 by Cassa depositi e prestiti Spa, together with ACRI-Association of Foundations and ABI-Italian Banking Association.
CDP Investimenti Sgr capital is owned 70% by the Cassa depositi e prestiti and 15% each from ACRI and ABI.

CDP Investimenti Sgr manages:

– the “investment facility for the living” (FIA) devoted to social housing

– the “investment facility for Redevelopment” (FIV) dedicated to the enhancement of public goods.
The FIA is a real estate fund reserved to qualified investors operating in private social housing with the purpose to increase the Italian territory offer…

OPIFICIO GOLINELLI

In June 2015 will be born in Bologna Factory Garrett, the Center for knowledge and the culture of the “Marino Golinelli” Foundation.
Near the industrial area of approximately 3 hectares between via Emilia Ponente, Prati di Caprara and via Paolo Nanni Costa, occupied until 2008 by the company Foundries Sabiem and now abandoned, the factory Garrett is already rising thanks to a redevelopment that required an investment of about 10 million.

The factory Garrett, with spaces dedicated to children, young people and adults, will be the Center which includes educational activities, training, research, dissemination, promotion of Sciences and Visual Arts held…

FICO EATALY WORLD BOLOGNA: DEVELOP A PUBLIC HERITAGE AND THE ITALIAN AGRIFOOD

FICO Eataly World Bologna wants to tell the world the excellence of Italian food and wine, by enclosing in a unique location to the tradition, culture and Italian skills related to food quality.

FICO wants to become the frame of reference for the dissemination and knowledge of the Italian agrifood, the meeting place for all those who love food and that it wants to know the secrets and tradition, researching information and unique experiences. A place where there is food and environmental education.

The choice of Bologna is strategic: the city from food and food tradition, now well connected to all…