Rome unveils cloud-inspired convention center
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A new convention center in Rome that has been hailed as one of acclaimed architect Massimiliano Fuksas’s most ambitious buildings yet was unveiled to the international media on Wednesday, ahead of its long-awaited opening next week.
The Italian’s latest work resembles a giant, rectangular glass box encasing an interior dominated by a fluid, cloud-like structure that seems to float above the center’s lower levels and houses its auditorium.
Made from steel and clad in cream-colored fiberglass the centerpiece of the new center is the size of two giant zeppelin airships.
It has been dubbed Fuksas’s “nuvola” (cloud in Italian), and its creators hope the innovative design will help to turn the new facility into a popular destination on the money-spinning international conference circuit.
The project has had a chequered history since Fuksas won the competition to build the center in 2000 with a design based on an idea he had while watching clouds from a beach.
The building has finally been completed at a total cost of 353 million euros (US$390 million) thanks to additional funds raised last year by the sell-off of four Mussolini-era buildings.
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