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Gasometer City, Austria |
The Gasometer are four former gas tanks, each of 90,000 m³ storage capacity, built as part of the Vienna municipal gas works Gaswerk Simmering in 1896–1899. They were used from 1899 to 1984 as gas storage tanks. After the changeover from town gas to natural gas between 1969 and 1978, they were no longer used and were shut down. Vienna undertook a remodelling and revitalization of the protected monuments and in 1995 called for ideas for the new use of the structures. The chosen designs by the architects Jean Nouvel (Gasometer A), Coop Himmelblau (Gasometer B), Manfred Wehdorn (Gasometer C) and Wilhelm Holzbauer (Gasometer D) were completed between 1999 and 2001. Each gasometer was divided into several zones for living (apartments in the top), working (offices in the middle floors) and entertainment and shopping (shopping malls in the ground floors). The shopping mall levels in each gasometer are connected to the others by skybridges. The historic exterior wall was conserved. |
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Mercato Centrale San Lorenzo, Italy |
The historic central market in Florence (but the same happened in other Italian Cities as Rome and Turin) has been refurbished and modernized to host a multifunctional set of activities, that are allowing users to experience much more than a simply purchase of goods. In mercato centrale people can purchase, drink and eat and experience different local and italian specialities, learn, talk and work. All this in an authentic historic building, perfectly renewed and adapted to most recent living needs. |
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| 3705 |
Kinsterna Hotel, Greece |
Kinsterna Hotel is a five-star hotel in the Peloponnese, near the Byzantine fortress of Monemvasia. Surrounded by olive and citrus groves, the 17th century estate has a fascinating past, spanning Byzantine, Ottoman and Venetian times. Revealing these layers of history was integral to the mansion’s restoration and conversion into a country hotel and spa. Recreating a self-sufficient and sustainable community was an essential part of our mission to revive this long-abandoned landmark. Kinsterna, cistern in Greek, is named after the water feature at the heart of the property. For centuries, water has breathed life into this fertile landscape from a source high in the mountains, cascading down a creek before it is channelled into the cistern. |
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| 3709 |
Dynamo - la Velostazione di Bologna, Italy |
The group Salvaiciclisti-Bologna needed a place for secure bike parking, as well as a community hub to promote sustainable urban mobility. They won in 2015 a public call promoted by the Municipality of Bologna named Incredibol! to develop their project and they received an historic abandoned space underneath the Pincio staircase leading up to Bologna’s Montagnola park and near the city’s central train station. The group cleaned and rehabilitated the building to create a bike park and community space. Today, la Velostazione functions as a self-sustaining cooperative, with 12 members and several employees. Among other things, it serves as a hub for a vegetable co-op and courier service, an event space,a bar and it houses one outpost of LEILA, an objects library. |
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FabLab Bologna, Italy |
The MakeInBo association was founded in April 2013 by 18 founding members, to promote a new craft culture through the use of digital technology as a tool for creativity and process innovation, and to open a FabLab in the city of Bologna: a laboratory space that aggregates interests in design, electronics and digital manufacturing. The activities proposed were training for adults and children, at headquarters or at technical institutes, prototyping services for small-medium companies, use of digital machinery and 3D printing, consulting for new companies and operators in various sectors. The association evolved into FabLabBologna srls, a company that currently employs about 30 external collaborators and provides consulting services, project development, and prototyping for 4.0 companies, as well as 3D printing services, brokerage and resale of materials, and rental of digital machinery and tools. |
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| 3712 |
Kilowatt, Italy |
Kilowatt is a coworking space and an accelerator of ideas of high social, cultural and environmental value, which brings together a network of enterprises, freelance professionals, startuppers, cultural operators and associations, with the aim of innovating the way of conceiving work and services by promoting the collaboration and sharing of tools and skills for the professional growth of all and for the improvement of the quality of life of each individual. Kilowatt has developed a multitude of services and initiatives, according to the vision of the overall project of Le Serre dei Giardini Margherita. It is a coworking space with 16 resident positions, that organizes training and networking to startups, enterprises and professionals. Furthermore it is a free business incubator and accelerator.It has realized an experimental educational service for infants and children (age 0-6), focused on outdoor education. Moreover it hosts cultural festivals about arts, cinema and music. |
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Dominicanenkerk Maastricht, Netherlands |
The Dominicanenkerk (Dominican church) is a Gothic monastery church situated in the city centre of Maastricht. The church is built in the 13th century of marl stone on a foundation of millstone-grit, consecrated in 1294. In 1796 the church’s ecclesiastical function ended, its later uses being a.o. stables, a bike shed, exhibition space and a party hall. In 2006 the old Dominican church in Maastricht got a new destiny. A bookshop was established inside the church. Until 2013 the bookshop was part of the bookshop chains Selexyz and Polare. After the bankcruptcy in 2014 the bookshop restarted as Bookshop Dominicanen and is now an independant bookshop. The bookshop receives approximately 700.000 visitors a year. Besides selling books, music and non-books, over 150 events a year (exhibitions, debates, interviews, readings, music, workshops etc.) are being organized. Maastricht coffeeburner Blanche Dael runs the coffeebar Coffeelovers. |
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San Teodoro Experience, Italy |
Ancient building inside the historical center of naples, in front of the sea. The Sant Teodoro palace is one of the most seventeen century well preserved site. The first floor is composed by 10 rooms very large appartments about 800 mq. and all pictured by Pomepian images as requested during the Borbone Kingdom ( the spanish pccupation) when the building was made. All frescoes, precious stuccos, original pavements and Marble furniture are available for the tourists that love the classical style. |
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| 3716 |
Catacombe di Napoli, Italy |
The Catacombs of Naples is a subterranean burial place set under one of the most populate working-class area of the city, the Sanità district. Here appeared, at first, Hellenistic hypogeums (underground temples or tombs; from Greek hypo -under- and Gaia -mother earth or goddess of earth), and, later on, in the Early Christianity age, the Paleo-Christian catacombs, ancient tombs of the first Christians and bishops of the city. Nowadays only some of them can be visited, in spite of their historical and artistic uniqueness for the local heritage. Indeed, catacombs are considered an upside-down architecture, as they were dug in the tuff rock in the subsoil; and this results in projecting the visitor, in contact with the inevitability of death, toward the transcend mystery of the afterworld. In 2006 was born a cooperative called “La Paranza”, that is, little by little, restoring and opening parts of this forgot heritage to the public, enhancing the neighbourhood and the local economy. |
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Le Scalze, Italy |
The historical complex of San Giuseppe delle Scalze has a manifold history: it was originally a noble palace built in the second half of the sixteenth century, then became a cloistered convent and by means of architectural works, in the seventeenth century, a section of the building was opened to the public and turned into a church. After the Unification of Italy, some parts of the convent and the gardens were converted into a state school, while the church remained in function until 1980, when, as a result of a violent earthquake and its severe ensuing damages, it was closed and abandoned. In the 1990s’, static consolidation works were undertaken, though the restoration of the surfaces has never been accomplished. In 2008, some areas surrounding the church, owned by the City Council, were entrusted to the management of joint group of associations (Le Scalze). |
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