The project investigates the possible enhancements of a historic building (original nucleus of the fourteenth century, Architecture at the end of the eighteenth century, last extension 1930) in the center of Florence. The enhancement of the building of historical value is based on its extraordinary potential, the frescoed halls, the stone stairs, the internal garden with a large terrace overlooking the Brunelleschi dome.
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The chapel of Nostra Signora di Guadalupe, the most exuberant of the chapels of the Church of Santa Maria Degli Angeli at La Gancia in Palermo, houses the tomb of Don Juan Lopez de Cisneros, the inquisitor killed in the secrets of the Steri “by the heretic” frà Diego la Matina in 1657, whose story was told by Sciascia in his booklet “Death of the Inquisitor”.
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The demolition of an unusable residential building and the subsequent reconstruction with the same destination and useful surface increase are assumed. The building contains apartments of different sizes in order to satisfy a wider spectrum of potential users. The external finishes and language refer to the Roman building tradition of the modern building with a curtain finish, revisited in a plastic key and updated in a contemporary language.
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The intervention originally had to foresee a banal internal redistribution of the spaces, restoring the main halls of the building, through the removal of false partitions. In the course of execution, however, from the removal of the chamber to reeds, a chestnut coffered ceiling and a pictorial top frieze emerged, both in a strong state of deterioration and severely damaged by incongruous maintenance interventions
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The completed works concern the restoration of the external facades of the building that houses the Spanish Consulate in Rome. The building appears to have been rebuilt in the 1930s on a first architectural structure that seems to belong to Ferdinando Fuga, of which however every trace has been destroyed.
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The work concerns an overall intervention on the entire building, neglected for a long time.
The works are in progress and involve the renovation of the internal condominium spaces, giving new light to corridors and doorways; following the stratigraphic analyzes on the masonry surfaces, we will proceed with the remaking of all the external plasters of the main facades and of the four internal cloisters, removing the pictorial and plaster layers of the walls, bringing the building back to its original appearance according to the Borrominiana technique of “Brodata glue”; finally, the cover is being rebuilt,
with a careful review of all drainage and water disposal systems.