Saturday, February 11, 2017

The stadium at Tor di Valle, why say no: “the city is sick, stop to private” – Corriere della Sera

Rome is beset by many dangerous diseases. Its historic center continues to be, despite the traffic congestion, one of the wonders of the world. But the city that surrounds it has grown so bad as to make the whole chaotic and therefore ungovernable. The expansion of the chaotic coast to its citizens is a daily waste of life for the time that it takes to reach from home to the place of work using a road network of a vastness truly pathological, which imposes very high maintenance costs.

Paolo PortoghesiPaolo Portoghesi

One of the main causes of this growth, chaotic is the fact that, rather than follow the suggestions of the plan and of the implementation plans, the builders have chosen to build on land purchased as agricultural land or very low density, sure that in one way or another would be managed with the variations to make them suitable extent convenient to their interests. Anyone overfly the city realizes this urbanisation schizophrenic who has deprived of the possibility to insert in the urban agglomeration breaks of green areas indispensable to relieve the diseases to the environment.

Well, today now – voted in the way plebiscitario to change the city – seems inclined to repeat the mistake of the worst predecessors, allowing individuals to decide on the location of an important urban facilities such as the stadium of Rome, destroying for ever the hope of being able to transform the valley of the Tiber, still largely intact, in the park of the river of which so much has been talked about in the past.

is Not enough; in addition to the stage – where the public interest is out of the question – i private ask you to build a business park and have chosen the typology of the skyscraper, which contradicts the history of the city and her experiences as a modern, who have always had to reckon with the classical tradition. As an architect you are bothered Daniel Libeskind, who, after the successful debut of the Museum of the Shoah – that it evokes so effectively the nazi barbarity has felt the need to repeat similar morphologies aggressive and explosive in a quantity of buildings that meet the mania spread to reduce the architecture to a race of wild gestures individualistic.

As, that Rome is a city ill for the its, chaotic expansion, as therapy aims to reflect the breakdown through the forms of crooked and lopsided skyscrapers Libeskind. Fortunately, in the world – after the parentheses ipermuscolare of the architecture the twisted – begins to take shape among young people, an architecture of opposition, contrary to the wastes and exhibitionism self-advertising.

For a public work is so important in a civilized country it would be the Municipality to choose the location offering free land and calls for an international design competition.

February 11, 2017 | 07:45

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