Article source: Studio Fuksas

Italian architecture practice Studio Fuksas has completed the largest building in Rome in over 50 years. Opening to the public in October 2016, the New Rome /EUR Convention Centre and Hotel ‘the Cloud’ is a €239 million earthquake proof complex that has taken 18 years of planning and construction. It will host auditoriums, exhibition spaces and a hotel – amassing 55,000 square metres in new public space. Through both trade and tourism, the convention centre is expected to bring in between 300 – 400 million euros annually to the city of Rome.

Image Courtesy © Leonardo Finotti

• Architects: Studio Fuksas (Massimiliano and Doriana Fuksas)
• Project: New Rome /EUR Convention Centre and Hotel ‘the Cloud’
• Location: Rome-Eur, Italy
• Photography: Leonardo Finotti and Moreno Maggi
• Model and Sketches: Francesco Colarossi and Archivio Fuksas
• Client: Eur SpA
• Interior design: Fuksas Design
• General contractor: Società Italiana per Condotte d’Acqua SpA
• Engineering: Plans: A. I. Engineering, Torino
• Structures: Studio Majowiecki; Studio Sarti
• Safety: Studio Sarti
• Acoustics: XU – Acoustique, Parigi, A.I. Engineering, Torino
• Lighting consulting: Speirs& Major Associates, Edinburgh, London
• Initial Cost Estimate: € 276.000.000 (year: 2007)
• Final Cost: € 239.000.000 (October 2016)
• Built surface: 55,000 sq. m.
• Period: 1998-2016

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