EN Professor Sergio Pascolo kindly sent us an article dealing with Porto Marghera that will be published on the next issue of Trasporti e Cultura n. 36 – 2013, Redesigning the existent. We hope and think this could be food…
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The Coming Death of Venice
EN Recently La Repubblica on the 18th of July published a translation of an article by Anna Somers Cocks written originally for the New York Review of Books. The article deals with the future of Venice and of Porto Marghera.…
Palais Lumiere? The future is already here…
EN Here’s an article by Prof. Stefano Munarin concerning the pharaonic and discussed design of the Palais Lumiere proposed by Pier Cardin for the Marghera waterfront. “Here (in Marghera), after years of crisis and neglect a process of rebirth has…
Growing Fuel
EN Ten acres of land between chimneys and silos, pierced by hundreds of clear plastic tubes 8 feet high, filled with single-celled algae diatoms that grow through photosynthesis a million times faster than what happens in nature: this is how…
