Taipei Pop Music Center | Taipei | Taiwan | Mario Bellini Architect

The proposed design for the Taipei Pop Music Center unfolds against the disjointed urban skyline in a conscious blend of the architectural qualities typical of a large scale project and the features which characterise the surroundings and landscape of the site between the Green Belt to the north and Nangang Mountain to the south of Zhongxiao E. Road.
Imagining the new TPMC, meant condensing the diverse yet interconnected functions comprising this complex dedicated to Pop Music into a single architectural concept in order to define a unified organism draped in a plastic 'green mantle' capable of implementing the iconic valency of the design.
The main objective of the design concept is to create a space which will inspire the citizens of Taipei and define a cultural hub dedicated to music where nature and architecture blend seamlessly and research, education and performance come together effortlessly to create a stimulating, creative environment...........more

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