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Restricted Competition, Winner

iGuzzini Illuminazione Iberica Headquarters

Client

iGuzzini Illuminazione

Location

Sant Cugat del Vallès, Spain

Year

2007-2011

Surface

9000 m²

Awards

2013 WAN Awards to Façades – Finalist
2013 Architizer A+Awards – Winner
2012 Catalonia Construction Awards – Selected
2012 WAF World Architecture Festival of Singapore Awards – Shortlisted
2011 Archdaily Building of the year – Winner
2011 Plataforma Arquitectura Work of the Year – Finalist

Client

iGuzzini Illuminazione

Location

Sant Cugat del Vallès, Spain

Year

2007-2011

Surface

9000 m²

Awards

2013 WAN Awards to Façades – Finalist
2013 Architizer A+Awards – Winner
2012 Catalonia Construction Awards – Selected
2012 WAF World Architecture Festival of Singapore Awards – Shortlisted
2011 Archdaily Building of the year – Winner
2011 Plataforma Arquitectura Work of the Year – Finalist

Overview

Overview

Il Cielo iGuzzini does not belong to the ground on which it sits. Like a balloon, Leonidov’s aerostat, it will attempt to escape from this world, seeking a new sky. It will describe the conditions of the light, natural and artificial, in its interior, it will refer to its origins, recognizing a geometric order, but above all it will want to speak to us of aspirations.
Moored to the ground, it belongs to this place, and to all other places. In reality there are forms that can only be drawn once, buildings that can only be built once. The second time is a replica. We believe in this opportunity for iGuzzini. Because this form, imperfect, slightly deformed, belongs to the world of iGuzzini; its identification is easy, and not everyone can, with authority, appropriate this profile, this geometry. A light, a big world, a big atrium around a shared central court… where the sense of belonging is proudly made explicit. Il Cielo iGuzzini does not seek to boast of explicit technological innovation, since that would soon date it as new technologies rapidly superseded its own content. But it does seek to be an example of current development towards well understood sustainability in both technological and energy terms.

Il Cielo iGuzzini does not belong to the ground on which it sits. Like a balloon, Leonidov’s aerostat, it will attempt to escape from this world, seeking a new sky. It will describe the conditions of the light, natural and artificial, in its interior, it will refer to its origins, recognizing a geometric order, but above all it will want to speak to us of aspirations.
Moored to the ground, it belongs to this place, and to all other places. In reality there are forms that can only be drawn once, buildings that can only be built once. The second time is a replica. We believe in this opportunity for iGuzzini. Because this form, imperfect, slightly deformed, belongs to the world of iGuzzini; its identification is easy, and not everyone can, with authority, appropriate this profile, this geometry. A light, a big world, a big atrium around a shared central court… where the sense of belonging is proudly made explicit. Il Cielo iGuzzini does not seek to boast of explicit technological innovation, since that would soon date it as new technologies rapidly superseded its own content. But it does seek to be an example of current development towards well understood sustainability in both technological and energy terms.

Il Cielo iGuzzini does not belong to the ground on which it sits. Like a balloon, Leonidov’s aerostat, it will attempt to escape from this world, seeking a new sky. It will describe the conditions of the light, natural and artificial, in its interior, it will refer to its origins, recognizing a geometric order, but above all it will want to speak to us of aspirations.

Moored to the ground, it belongs to this place, and to all other places. In reality there are forms that can only be drawn once, buildings that can only be built once. The second time is a replica. We believe in this opportunity for iGuzzini. Because this form, imperfect, slightly deformed, belongs to the world of iGuzzini; its identification is easy, and not everyone can, with authority, appropriate this profile, this geometry. A light, a big world, a big atrium around a shared central court… where the sense of belonging is proudly made explicit.

Il Cielo iGuzzini does not seek to boast of explicit technological innovation, since that would soon date it as new technologies rapidly superseded its own content. But it does seek to be an example of current development towards well understood sustainability in both technological and energy terms.

Construction

Construction

Concept

Concept

EXHIBITIONS

MIAS at Centre Pompidou Paris

MIAS at DHUB Barcelona Museum of Design

iGuzzini Exhibition at the Bartlett UCL London

PUBLICATIONS

iGuzzini Barcelona Corporate Building

MIAS The Loop Project

PROJECTS

Fira Barcelona Innovation Hub

CUCADELLUM, Funicular to the Tibidabo

Banyoles Old Town Refurbishment