International Architecture Competition | Regium Waterfront | Reggio Calabria | Italy | Mario Bellini Architect

A great new “urban beach” for the city of Reggio Calabria which, like a living Hydra with two heads, will be anchored at either end by two twin buildings, two glittering bodies charged with energy, practically on the verge of taking flight.
The entire complex has been entrusted with the task of promoting new opportunities for citizens to meet and socialize and to revitalize the indispensable relationship of the city with its sea. A relationship and opportunities long denied by the unfortunate factory and railway buildings constructed in the seventies.
Two buildings separated by space and their different uses yet connected by the same dynamic formal imprinting which exalts their common public function, broadens and strengthens the symbolic charge in a single memorable land-mark from end to end of the reborn Falcomatà seafront, from the Town Hall to the Harbour. A strategic position the centrality of which will be exalted by the twin buildings making it the avant garde seafront of the Reggio Calabria of the future.........more