From “cathedral” of Turin’s industrial past to workshops for contemporary culture, innovation and business acceleration, with a marked international approach.
OGR- Officine Grandi Riparazioni, was converted by Fondazione CRT, and opened on September 30th, OGR- is the only example of industrial conversion in Europe with three “souls” that integrate each other as an ecosystem: artistic research, scientific, technological and industrial research, food and wine proposal.
The H-shaped building was built between 1885 and 1895 and used to be a maintenance workshop for trains for about a century. In 2013 the OGR-CRT consortium (controlled for more than 50% by Fondazione CRT) purchased the land from RFI SistemiUrbani with the aim of restoring it, investing €100m to redevelop the site, working with the local Sovrintendenza and in collaboration with the City Council of Turin.
The massive conversion work of the OGR has completed the redevelopment of “Spina 2”, as part of the new town’s north-south axis, creating two new squares in the heart of the city and strengthening the strategic value of the area in proximity to Porta Susa rail train station, together with the Polytechnic, the Energy Centre, the forthcoming convention hall, and other important private research centres and prominent cultural institutions.
High technology solutions, environmental sustainability, preservation of the historical value of the structure, flexibility and modularity of spaces, accessibility for all throughout the year, are the inspiring ideas of the great restructuring and functional recovery of OGR, aiming to become a house for contemporary experimentation and production, in continuous transformation and dialogue with the protagonists of global art and innovation.
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