AWARDS -------------
2007: “Russian International Architectural Award 2007” for innovation in public places interiors, assigned in
Moscow on November 14th, 2007.

A quite prestigious prize, the “Russian International Architectural Award 2007”, was assigned last November at Манежe (Manége), in Moscow, a monumental neo-classical style pavilion located just in front of the Kremlin, once devoted to horses dressage and to the Zar’s cavalry officers training, now reconverted into a cultural and exhibition centre. An internationally formed jury, counting among its members some personalities as like Massimiliano Fuksas, Emilio Ambasz, Belgian Jo Crepen, Mexicans Victor and Ricardo Lagorreta and Japanese Satoshi Okada, has nominated 50 finalists (for two main prize categories: one-family houses and public spaces interiors), mostly Russian and Ukrainians, together with Austrians, Germans, Peruvians, Dutch, Americans, Australians, Spanish, Portuguese, Latvian and Japanese architects and designers. Two were the Italians: the Milanese designer Paola Navone and architect Pierluigi Piu, from Cagliari, Sardinia. Among all competitors were some relevant personalities too, as like Alvaro Leite Siza Vieira (renowned son of Portuguese master Alvaro Siza and winner – thanks to his House Tolo, built on the Portuguese cliff of Lugar das Carvalhinhas – of the first prize for one-family houses projects), Dutch Ben Van Berkel and Spanish architect Carlos Ferrater (author, among others, of a beautiful project for the new high-speed railway station of Florence), all of them having already been awarded in the past with several prestigious international prizes..