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Sumit Singhal
Sumit Singhal loves modern architecture. He comes from a family of builders who have built more than 20 projects in the last ten years near Delhi in India. He has recently started writing about the architectural projects that catch his imagination. Caffè- Restaurant Finisterrae in Florence, Italy by Mimesi62 Architetti AssociatiMarch 2nd, 2017 by Sumit Singhal
Article source: Mimesi62 Architetti Associati The expansion of Finisterrae was an opportunity to add a significant stage in the imaginary journey already offered by the current restaurant: Malaga, Tangier, Marseille, Thessaloniki, Naples donating to Florence a stylish tribute to italian style and art.  Image Courtesy © Morphosis Architects
 Image Courtesy © Morphosis Architects If the Basilica of Santa Croce brings in itself the magnificence of the great Italian artists, on the other side of the same square, the intervention approaches it in a discreet way, recognizing once again the clear majesty. The idea adds a new and important landing, so far missing, contemplating the city of belonging, declining an elementary precondition: the place of arrival or departure of the journey becomes Piazza Santa Croce with its Basilica “Pantheon of Italian glories”. It pays homage presumptuously, an inevitable but humble comparison.  Image Courtesy © Morphosis Architects  Image Courtesy © Morphosis Architects From history, and in particular from the first treaty of Art history, recognised as such the “Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects” (from Cimabue to our times) described by the painter Giorgio Vasari, with its useful and necessary introduction to their arts of 1550, finds inspiration and synthesizes about 100 artists, of those “great spirits” who wrote much of the history of art and now makes a substantial contribution to Italian ingenuity, added value of our culture.  Image Courtesy © Morphosis Architects  Image Courtesy © Morphosis Architects The project is deliberately inspired by the Basilica of Santa Croce, from the sessions changed by the choirs of the sacristy up to the lights, where candles gather all their charm combined with a clever modern application of traditional gold leaf. From the impressive boundary where its is located, comes the harmonious counterpoint offered inside by a skilful use of materials, the Florentine pietra forte, yellow ivory, dark walnut and the elegant furniture, lamps hanging from the ceiling and golden session.  Image Courtesy © Morphosis Architects  Image Courtesy © Morphosis Architects The game between horizontality and verticality is accentuated by the coating of walls, jointed with metal blades and enhanced by the names of the men of art and culture. If the cladding plates of the inner wall recalls the ancient mausoleums, for remembrance at memorial signs in the horizontal arrangement, of them exceeds the solemn stillness becoming dynamic architecture, thanks to the overlap of stone quoins.  Image Courtesy © Morphosis Architects  Image Courtesy © Morphosis Architects We looked back in history as an inspirational moment, we looks to modernity trying to give shape to ideas, avoiding the obviuos cliché of false revival. Tradition and modernity as conjugation of a path of research and innovation.  Image Courtesy © Morphosis Architects  Image Courtesy © Morphosis Architects
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