ARW is a workshop that turns any particular occasion into a reflection and into a statement about the reasons and meaning of architecture. We propose an architecture capable of summarising contemporary world’s complexity into a clear, essential, necessary outcome. – In the search for a site specific identity of a project, we retain identity, as in the best Italian tradition, to be able to be local in a global world, nowadays a necessary reference horizon. Architecture begins from its relations with a specific site and willing to transform it architecture states a precise idea of space. The dialectic between statement of an idea and conditions of the context constitute polarities in which the interval of the project transformation is set. The settlement scene in its complexity becomes the reference material in which the geography, the history of sites, the landscape with its contradictions, the morphological characters, the leaning of soil are taken as materials generating a project. – Architecture erects a complex and integrated space. Public and private spaces generate a crucial element of a project. Thus we propose a strong, iconic architecture that knows how to transform and construct the identity of places, a reactive architecture able to grasp different degrees of layering of places and therefore capable of pondering a response. The project is the foundation of a process that starts from a programmatic content and from a concept, that knows how to critically read the nature, the aim of an intervention of transformation.
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Via Cairoli, 2
Brescia, Lombardia 25122, IT
Viale Abruzzi, 9
Piano Terzo
Milan, Lombardy 20131, IT
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As this year comes to an end, we look back with gratitude for all we’ve accomplished and with excitement for what lies ahead. Here’s to new challenges, inspiring projects, and continued growth. Thank you for being with us! • #arw #architectural #research #workshop #2k24 #architecture #project #office #Milan #Brescia
ARCHITECTURAL RECORD 12.2024 We are thrilled to announce that our project, Teatro Borsoni, carried out in collaboration with Brescia Infrastrutture, has been featured in Architectural Record 12.24, the most prestigious architecture magazines in the United States! Read the article: https://lnkd.in/dH9VK3uT • Photo by: Federico Covre • #arw #ArchitecturalRecord #magazine #testi223 #project #architecture #theaterdesign #culturalspaces #brescia
On Friday, November 15, 2024, we joined architects and engineers at the NH Milano City Life Hotel as speakers for the Infoprogetto® event "Sustainable Construction for Space Design and Redevelopment." Watch the lecture: https://lnkd.in/djzYmYdX
Designing Public Spaces with Human Scale Architecture is about balance. At ARW, we approach every project with a deep respect for proportions and scale, ensuring that spaces feel intense, functional, and timelessly human. • Photos: 1. Fernando Guerra 2. Federico Covre 3. Rosamaria Montalbano 4. Atelier xyz • #arw #archive #project #architecture #scale #humanscale #proportions
𝐀𝐑𝐖 𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐭𝐬 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐩 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐀𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚! We are thrilled to announce that our project, Teatro Borsoni, has been featured in Architectural Record, one of the most prestigious architecture magazines in the United States! This milestone marks a significant step for ARW Associates, bringing our vision of site-specific design to a global audience. The article highlights how the theater breathes new life into a former industrial district, a testament to our commitment to transforming spaces into cultural landmarks. Read the full article! #ARWAssociates #TheaterDesign #ArchitecturalRecord #CulturalSpaces #Brescia #Architecture
Nestled in the foothills of the Alps, 50 miles east of Milan, the ancient city of Brescia is home to some of the best-preserved Roman remains in northern Italy, a Longobard convent that is now a UNESCO World Heritage site, and numerous Renaissance churches and palaces. It is also an important center of industry, with metallurgy, machine tools, and automotive engineering weighing heavily in the regional economy. Changing patterns of development have seen industrial decline in some of Brescia’s neighborhoods, such as Via Milano (as its name suggests, the beginning of the old road to the Lombard capital) where the city is undertaking a $50 million redevelopment campaign. Launched in 2017 and baptized Oltre la Strada—“Beyond the Street”—the program aims to turn Via Milano “into a neighborhood and not just a traffic artery” through new investments that include a park, a bicycle lane, a community library, and a theater. Baptized Teatro Renato Borsoni, after an influential stage director who built his career in Brescia, the new venue will host a wide variety of performances and concerts, from rock and jazz to chamber music and choral works, and from Goldoni and Pirandello to young upcoming playwrights. In the context of today’s Via Milano—a disparate mix of 18th-, 19th-, and 20th-century housing stock and abandoned postwar factories—the Borsoni stands out as the flagship project in the Oltre la Strada regeneration, even if the budget allocated to it seems absurdly low. “Initially I was told we had €4 million,” says Camillo Botticini, the Brescia-born architect (ARW Botticini+Facchinelli) who helped plan Oltre la Strada and who oversaw the theater’s design. “Obviously, that was impossible.” Located on a plot that was once part of the Ideal Clima factory, the €7.7 million ($8.4 million) building contains two auditoriums: the main hall, with a traditional stage and fly tower, which seats 312, and a smaller space, intended as a children’s theater, with a capacity of around 170 people seated on bleachers and the floor. Read more here: https://lnkd.in/gxEzmGcK Words by Andrew Ayers Photos © Federico Covre
ARWords The new conference series organized and discussed by ARW people. Today's lecture: "Relationships in Architecture" The workshop seeks a relational telos in the foundational definition of architecture, addressing the loss of identity and media-driven homogenization. • Read the article: https://lnkd.in/dt6NfER8 • #arw #workshop #research #lecture #relation #architecture #space #office #Milan #Brescia
We are pleased to announce that today, Friday, November 29, the award ceremony for the Gubbio Prize 2024 took place, where our project “UNESCO CORRIDOR” received a special recognition in the Italian Section. The award focuses on “projects and reuse plans that implement innovative strategies on existing heritage in cities and historically significant areas.” Read the article!
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