Lions of Stone

Cities of Stone

A section within the Sensi Contemporanei project

With the support of Regione Puglia

The ‘Project South’ jurors are Matthew Bell, Claudio D’Amato Guerrieri, Gabriele Del Mese, Gulzar Haider, Paolo Marconi, Attilio Petruccioli and they made a unanimous decision to assign the seven Lions of Stone to the following projects: Bari, team leader arch. Adolfo Natalini; Crotone, team leader arch. Carlo Moccia; Pantelleria, team leader arch. Gabriella Giuntoli; Bari, team leader arch. Guido Canella; Bari, team leader arch. Antonio Riondino; Bari, team leader arch. Vitangelo Ardito; Pantelleria, team leader arch. Marino Narpozzi.

The jury believes that all of the awarded projects demonstrate an intellectual response to the two important problems that are afflicting the Mediterranean city: the capacity to think of the city as an organic whole and the capacity for stone to give material identity to the architecture of the Mediterranean according to the logic of its construction. The awarded projects have afforded the most convincing responses with respect to a strong group of thirty-five projects selected for the exhibition.

The jury was unable to assign any awards for the site in Siracusa due to a lack of unanimity among the jurors.

The jury hopes that all of the winning designs are able to contribute to improving the formulations and rules of future design competitions for the four sites in Bari, Crotone, Siracusa, and Pantelleria, based  on the close integration between architecture and the city, and offering as well insight into the diverse characteristics and local traditions of each place.

Portus Architecture Award

City – Port

A section within the Sensi Contemporanei project

with the support of the Regione Siciliana

The  Portus Architecture Award jurors are Richard Burdett (President), Josep Acebillo, Massimo Pica Ciamarra, Luigi Scrima, Vittorio Camerini, Aldo Bonomi and the selected project is “Il parco della Blanda” of the Regione Basilicata.

Project area: Maratea, Piana di Castrocucco (Potenza)

Project team: Gustavo Matassa, with Vincenzo De Biase, Silvia Marano, Rosa Nave

A strong design of the landscape that connects the historical elements of the area, urban roots and “marine” gardens, in a complex earth-water system, characterized by lacustrine, marine and fluvial shapes. This project represents several ideas which are different from the territorial one, everyday life and meeting spaces.