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Sinuous and sculptural, San Giacomo Apostolo Church is capped by deconstructed planes of thin copper panels. Topping the ground-up parish complex in the northern Italian city of Ferrara, the roofscape was inspired by a hot-air balloon after it falls flat to the ground. The unique roof is just one of...

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Published in:Interior Design 2022-04, Vol.93 (3), p.232
Main Author: Dunmall, Giovanna
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Architectural elements
Architectural services
Church buildings
Tagliabue, Benedetta
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Summary:Sinuous and sculptural, San Giacomo Apostolo Church is capped by deconstructed planes of thin copper panels. Topping the ground-up parish complex in the northern Italian city of Ferrara, the roofscape was inspired by a hot-air balloon after it falls flat to the ground. The unique roof is just one of several contemporary standouts in the decade-long project masterminded by Benedetta Tagliabue-EMBT, the Spanish studio Tagliabue cofounded with her late husband Enric Miralles and of which she is now CEO and head architect. Commissioned in 2011 by the Conferenza Episcopale Italians, Italy's official assembly of bishops, San Giacomo Apostolo is part of a pilot program to erect three new Catholic parishes throughout the country where growing congregations made new facilities necessary. The studio's plan was to break some of the points on the exterior bricks so the facade looked older, but that was deemed too complicated and, Cucchi thought, "manneristic."
ISSN:0020-5508
0020-5508