Palazzo del Cinema di Locarno: Modernizing with Simplicity

Alejandro Zaera-Polo, Maider Llaguno, Middle Density, Politics and economics, Project, Territory and mobility, Urban Paradigms

Active Public Spaces, Cinema, Compact building, Culture, Flexibility, Gold, Multifunctional building, open, Political & Economic Approach, Preservation, Programmatic coexistences, Project, Public buildings, Recycling, Redefining architecture, Restoration, Switzerland, Territorial Approach, Urban Dialogue, Urban renewal

Alejandro Zaera-Polo and Maider Llaguno-Munitxa (AZPML) have reinterpreted a classical masterpiece within the renovation of the historical building of the Palazzo Scolastico, converting it to a new cinema complex and bringing it back to the present through simple gestures.