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Richard Rogers
The Lord Rogers of Riverside


Richard Rogers was born in Florence, Italy in 1933. He received a diploma in Architecture from the Architectural Association in London, and a Masters from Yale University USA. Best known for his pioneering buildings with Norman Foster, Renzo Piano and since 1978 with his colleagues at the Richard Rogers Partnership, he has maintained a lifelong commitment to the relationship between architecture, the environment, culture and society. In parallel to his prime activity as an architect and urban designer, he has been closely involved with many of the UK's major arts and public organisations. He was Chairman of the Tate Gallery from 1981 to 1989, Deputy Chairman of the Arts Council of England from 1994 to 1997 and Chairman of The Architecture Foundation until June 2001. He is an Honorary Trustee of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, as well as President of The National Communities Resource Centre.

The first architect to be invited to give the BBC Reith Lectures in 1995, Rogers’ text - 'Cities for a small planet' - argued for a more equitable and sustainable approach to the built environment, placing the design of cities at the heart of the public and political agenda. Richard Rogers is Chairman to the Mayor’s Design for London Group, as well as Adviser to the Mayor of Barcelona on urban strategies.

In 1971, Richard Rogers and Renzo Piano were the winners of an international competition for the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, a museum, library and information centre. The building has been visited by over 100 million people since its completion in 1976. The work of the Richard Rogers Partnership, formed in 1977, is based on the use of appropriate technologies to reduce energy consumption, maximising social potential and responding to changing patterns of use and activity. The practice has designed award-winning public and private buildings in Europe, Asia and the USA, including Lloyd's of London (London, 1986), Channel 4 Headquarters (London, 1994), the European Court of Human Rights (Strasbourg, 1995), Law Courts in Bordeaux (1998), VR Techno Plaza (Gifu, Japan, 1998), 88 Wood Street (London, 1999), the Millennium Dome (London, 1999) and Lloyd’s Register of Shipping (London, 2000). Recently completed projects include the new National Assembly for Wales in Cardiff, Madrid Barajas Airport, Terminal 4 and Law Courts in Antwerp. Current projects include Heathrow Terminal 5, the redevelopment of a bullring in Barcelona and a 48 storey office tower in the City of London.

The commitment to the public realm and sustainable design underpins a series of urban masterplans in cities around the world. These include the masterplan for Pu Dong Financial District in Shanghai, the radical ecological proposals for ParcBIT in Majorca and visionary plans for the centre of London, originally exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1986. In London, the practice is author of the Greenwich Peninsula masterplan, proposals for the Bankside masterplan adjacent to Tate Modern and Convoys Wharf in Deptford.

Richard Rogers has published and lectured widely. He has received numerous international awards, including the RIBA Royal Gold Medal (1985), the Chevalier de l'Ordre National de la Légion d'Honneur (1986), the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation Medal In Architecture (1999) and the Praemium Imperiale in 2000. Two key publications are 'Cities for a small planet' (based on his BBC Reith Lectures) and ‘Cities for a small country’ (with Professor Ann Power). In 1991 he was knighted by H.M. The Queen for his contributions to architecture. He was made a life peer in 1996.

In 1998 Richard Rogers was commissioned by the UK government to chair the Urban Task Force and in June 1999 his team published a report, ‘Towards an Urban Renaissance’, containing wide-ranging proposals for urban regeneration in the UK. Many of these recommendations were incorporated in the Government’s Urban White Paper, announced in November 2000. The Urban Summit, held in London in November 2002, focused on key issues raised in the UTF Report.


from www.labiennale.org

Brit-Iraqi architect Zaha Hadid is the winner of the international architecture competition Betile, run by the Regione Sardegna in collaboration with Domus and the Politecnico of Milan, for the building of a Mediterranean Museum of Nuragic and Contemporary Art on the seafront at Sant’Elia in Cagliari.

“The jury appreciated the extraordinary contextual sensitivity of the new architectural entity that, acting as a ‘coralline concretion’, accompanies, stitches up and reconfigures an entire stretch of the seafront at Cagliari”, explained Stefano Boeri. “The plastic nature of the new Museum – added Boeri – represents a mark of regeneration of undisputable strength and visibility within the landscape of the gulf of Cagliari, and with the interweaving of its sinuous built elements expresses the desire to base the new Museum on the interaction between the exhibits (related to Nuragic and contemporary art) and the movement of the users-visitors”.

Zaha Hadid, aged 56, British by adoption, in 2004 the first woman to be awarded the Pritzker prize, is a highly significant figure in terms of experimental contemporary architecture, work revealed through a number of projects of undisputed fame. In Italy, in Rome she is realising another important museum, Maxxi, Museo nazionale delle Arti del XXI and is responsible for other museums built at Cincinnati (Contemporary Art Mueum) and Wolfsburg in Germany (Phaeno Science Centre).

The scheme designed by Zaha Hadid for the museum of Nuragic and contemporary art “will represent – continued Boeri – as well as a new landmark for Cagliari, an opportunity for new experiences – both perceptive and corporeal – and a place for the development and sedimentation of fertile contaminations between the past and future identity of the area and the island of Sardinia”.

With this in mind, the jury recognised in the winning project its potential to become a “reference point” for on the one hand the other museums in Cagliari and on the other the archaeological sites spread around the area and the places dedicated to contemporary art on the island, that the brief indicated as the overall aim in the architectural competition.

The jury also gave a special mention to other competitors who were considered along with Hadid for receiving the commission to design the museum. These were the studio Archea whose scheme, a large cube crossed by a void that connected sea and sky, captured in a profound and original way the sense of identity within the context of Sardinia that the museum brief underlined; architects Herzog and de Meuron who proposed an original layout for the museum developed in the vertical sense together with the idea of introducing urban forestation, and finally the team lead by the architect Lagnese who devised a scheme that was strongly lyrical with a layout of great clarity.

The designs by the nine other candidates selected in June alongside Hadid for the design phase of the Betile international competition, will be on show for the next few weeks in an exhibition organised by the Regione Sardegna and the Comune di Cagliari, at the Lazzaretto di Sant’Elia, near to the site where the museum will be built, to allow citizens a chance to evaluate the design ideas proposed.

Domus, along with the Regione, is working on a special supplement dedicated to the detailed presentation of the results of the competition, to be published in January.

The nine other designs on show are by the following architects:
Massimiliano Fuksas with Arup
Herzog & de Meuron
Ateliers Jean Nouvel
Kengo Kuma & Associates with Obr architetti associati, Buro Happold, Hilson Moran, Eta, Ecologic studio, Bob Noorda design, Carlotta De Bevilacqua, Paolo Inghilleri, Aubry & Guiguet, De-ca, M. A. Mongiu, Mosign, M. Desvigne
Gonçalo Byrne
Garofalo Miura architetti with Proger S.p.a.
Yung Ho Chang (Atelier Fcjz), Interaction Design Lab, Mutti&Architetti with DotDotDot, Fabrizio Leoni, Luca Poncellini (Cliostraat) and Giovanni Romano (Postmedia Books)
Studio Archea with Franz Prati, MDU architetti associati, Francesco Chessa studio di ingegneria e Milano progetti
Roberto Cosenza, Giampiero Lagnese, Klaus Schuwerk


from Domus News


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here's the story about ... maybe my favourite drink


Campari is a branded alcoholic beverage (between 20-24% alcohol by volume) introduced in Italy in 1860 by Gaspare Campari: it is a mild bitters-type apéritif, often drunk with soda, orange juice, or in mixed drinks. Though the recipe is a proprietary secret, its characteristic flavor is bitter orange peel. There is an Italian soft drink, Chinotto which has a similar flavour and it seems likely the Chinotto fruit could form part of the flavouring of Campari. Campari's bright red color comes from natural carmine, which is derived from cochineal, which is used in other Italian alcoholic drinks, as for example Alchermes.

Large scale production and export began in 1904 when the first production plant was opened in Sesto San Giovanni, Italy. Though bitter Campari is most common today, a sweet Campari, that was light yellow in color, was once produced. Though unconfirmed, the drink known as Suze, produced by the Pernod company in France, may be at least similar to the yellow campari.

In the Italian market, Campari mixed with carbonated water is sold in individual bottles as CampariSoda (10% alcohol by volume). CampariSoda is packaged in a distinctive bottle that was designed in the 1930s by Fortunato Depero. CampariSoda was first created in 1932. While the company has been quoted suggesting it to be the first pre-mixed drink in the world, premixed home-bottled punches actually date to the 18th century, and commercially, Pimm's Cup N°1 (a bottled gin sling) and the Heublein Club Cocktail line both were marketed by the 1880s.

The Sesto San Giovanni antique factory has been closed recently and converted to become the Campari Museum, displaying Campari's history related items.

Campari was William Holden's favorite drink and he made sure his Mount Kenya Safari Club was always well stocked. It was also the drink of choice for the character Steve Zissou from the 2004 film The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou.


from Wikipedia

Programme > Treviso

01|09
20:45 > Antonio Ray, Mara Rey Navas, Antonio Rey Paez, Macario Ibáñez Diaz (Spain)
Flamenco!

Taranta
Tanguillo
Bulería
Rumba
Fandangos
Zapateaos

02|09
18:00 > Cocktail with Festival's friends
Cafè de Paris - Treviso


03|09
20:45 > Celso Machado (Brazil)
Brasil!

Depois de Anos [text: Marcia Abujamra]
Varal [text: Luis Carlos Bahia]
Corpo
Boliviana
Capivara [text: Celso Machado]
Manhã de Carneval [Luis Bonfà & Antonio Maria]
A Felicidade [Antonio Carlos Jobim & Vinicius de Morais]
Katapa
Parazula
Flauta Oriental
Camalangoni
Espelho [text: Marcia Accioly]
Bico do Beija-Flor [text: Celso Marcia Abujamra]
Na Areia do Mar
Lamento Andino
Expresso 2222 [text&music: Gilberto Gil]
Balaio de Gato [text: Celso Machado]
Floresta de Amazonas


04|09
19:30 > Meet Celso Machado


05|09
20:45 > Javier Garcia Moreno (Spain)
España!

Isaac Albéniz
Asturias
Francisco Tárrega
Recuerdos de la Alhambra
Capricho Árabe
Joquin Turina
Sonata Op.61
Allegro, Andante, Allegro
Fernando Sor
Introducción, Tema y Variaciones Op.7
Manuel de Falla
Homenaje a la tumba de Debussy
Canción del fuego fatuo
Isaac Albéniz
Sevilla


06|09
18:00 > Meet Rémi Boucher
20:30 > Short Films "Delle due Città"
[Aria, Giulietta della spazzatura]


07|09
20:45 > Rémi Boucher (Canada)
Nuevo Latino

Johann Sebastian Bach
Suite n.1 in Mi minore BWV 996
Prélude, Allemande, Courante, Sarabande, Bourrée, Gigue
Rémi Boucher
Arabic Dance
Papillon Chinois
Isaac Albéniz
Suite Espanola Op.47
Granada, Cataluna, Sevilla, Cadiz, Asturias, Aragon, Castilla, Cuba
Rémi Boucher
Russian Fantasy


08|09
19:30 > Meet David Russell


09|09
20:45 > David Russell (Scotland)
Aire Latino Aire Latino

Mauro Giuliani
Grande Ouverture
Francesco Da Milano
Due Fantasie
Enrique Granados
Valses Poéticos
Johann Kaspar Mertz
Hungarian Fantasy
John Dowland
Lachrimae Pavan
Queen Elizabeth Galliard
Semper Dowland, Semper Dolens
Dowland's Galliard
Hans Haug
Prélude, Tiento Et Toccata
Vicente Emilio Sojo
Cinco Piezas Venezuelano
Cántico, Aguinaldo, Cancíon, Aire Venezolano, Galerón


11|09
20:30 > Short Films "Delle due Città"
[Fare bene Mìkles, Interno 9]