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Five-star Hotel

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Location	Firenze, Italy
Client	Michelangelo Immobiliare s.r.l.
Date	2006 – 2008
Dimensions	1300mq, 37 rooms
Budget	€ 4.000.000
Commission	Concept, developed and technical design, construction supervision
Team:
Architectural design	Arx srl
Structural design	Aei progetti
Credits	Archive Arx

The building where the Claridge Hotel is currently located stands in Piazza Piave, a site formerly used for public executions.
The intervention foresee actions just at the ground floor of the prospect on Malcontenti street,with the porpuse of optimize the compliance between internal functions and compositional optimization of the builindg’s frontage, that contains some anomalies in the external design. More precisley the composition of the external openings, wich have considerably different dimensions, has been made symmetrical. Due to the necessity of bring in coverage the hotel’s technoligies, the intervention foresaw a concelament between the plugging body of the machinery with the nineteenth-century features of the building.
Therefore externally the currently existing roof terrace has been lengthened, making it symmetrical, while the external finishing follows the composition and design of the current one.

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2023 – I PRIZE

ARX wins the first prize for the award of the integrated design contract, the coordination of safety in the planning phase and the implementation of the works of the new Casa Comunale in the Municipality of San Cascino in Val di Pesa, with Consorzio GST Appalti e Costruzioni.

The project involves the construction of the new municipal building in the basement of the car park called “Ex Stianti”, which will incorporate a series of services currently located in separate locations and then is an opportunity for a general reorganization of municipal activities. The building, which will occupy a building area of 1800 mq, will then be built in elevation of 3 levels, from the plan of cover of the north-east wing of the current building intended for public parking with access from viale Terracini and to the side of the retaining wall of viale Corsini. […] […]

https://www.arxnet.net/project/nuova-casa-comunale/