[spectre] Competitive Tender - The Gateway to Milan

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Competitive Tender - Call for projects
"The Gateway to Milan"
20 July 2009: deadline for submitting proposals for the first step
http://www.laportadimilano.it/

Competitive Tender Notice
http://www.laportadimilano.it/public/File/b96_call_for_tenders.pdf

Partecipation Application
http://www.laportadimilano.it/public/File/b96_participation%20application.doc

Technical Infos
http://www.laportadimilano.it/public/File/AllegatiTecnici.zip



Sea, the company operating Milan airports presents" La Porta di Milano", a 
new architectural project for realizing a work of art that will contribute 
towards changing the appearance of Malpensa airport.

The notice of competition, with the object of involving not only the Italian 
but also the international world of architecture and design, plans to create 
a space with a high aesthetic value, virtually representing the door to the 
city of Milan . Apart from emotively kindling the imagination of the 
passengers by its fascinating lights, colours, materials and sounds, this 
work could also become an exceptional location for holding cultural events 
and exhibitions.

" La Porta di Milano ", which will come to life between the airport and the 
Malpensa Express railway station, will be an area of great creative impact, 
a perfect blend of art and architecture, with which Milan will welcome the 
whole world in an entirely original manner: a sensorial itinerary pointing 
straight to the heart and mind of the travellers. " La Porta di Milano" 
intend to involve creative personalities, architects and designers, Italians 
and foreign, for them to send us their ideas on this project of great 
symbolical value.

An estimated 1.7 million Euro is planned to be invested in completing the 
entire work.

The project is timed for the following steps:

.  5 June 2009: publication of notice of competition in the Official Gazette

.  20 July 2009: deadline for submitting proposals for the first step

.  end of September 2009: notification of finalist projects

.  December 2009: award of supply contract

A jury of experts was set up to select the finalist projects and the winning 
idea, which will not only guarantee transparency in the decision making 
process, but also the quality of the proposals: Sandrina Bandera , 
Superintendent of the Province of Lombardy historical heritage, Mario 
Bellini , Architect and Designer, Gregorio Caccia Dominioni, Architect and 
Arnaldo Pomodoro, Architect and contemporary Sculptor will be sitting on the 
jury chaired by Gianpiero Borghini



PANEL OF JUDGES

SANDRINA BANDERA graduated in Art History at the University of Florence in 
1975. She earned prestigious scholarships: in 1976 at the Roberto Longhi 
Foundation and from 1977 to 1980 the CNR scholarship at the Bibliothèque 
Nationale in Paris on the miniature from Lombardy from the 15th century. 
>From 1979 to 1980 she held the office of Research Professor at the 
University of Florence; in 1980 she won the competition for career directive 
as an Art Historian for the Ministry of Cultural Heritage. From 1980 to 2007 
she acted as the highly qualified, sole official Superintendent Director of 
the city of Milan and southern Provinces. From 1998 to 2008 she directed the 
Superintendent Export Office controlling all imports and exports of works of 
art in Lombardy. Since 2000 she has been a member of the " Abbatia Sancte 
Marie de Morimundo" Council Foundation. In 2007 she won the contest and was 
appointed Superintendent of Historic and Artistic Heritage. Since 2008 she 
has held the office of Superintendent of the city of Milan and for 6 months 
the office of interim Superintendent of the city of Genoa. She is the 
director of the Brera Art Gallery. She published studies, research and 
monographic volumes on Italian painting and Italian sculpture from the 14th 
to the 18th century, among which a monograph dedicated to Giotto and one to 
Agostino De Fondulis. She also took part in exhibitions dedicated to Lombard 
paintings from the 15th and 16th centuries. Between 1999 and 2000 she 
designed and staged, as the sole author, an exhibition dedicated to the 
paintings from the house of Visconti and Sforza at the Brera Art Gallery. 
Concurrently, she published several studies on the Middle Ages: Saint 
Ambrose's Golden Altar, Ariberto's Cross in the Milan Cathedral, Cistercian 
miniature and a monograph on medieval Cistercian art and architecture.

MARIO BELLINI graduated with a degree in architecture from the Milan 
Polytechnic in 1959. From the very start, his prolific design work around 
the world was a great success. He has designed for Olivetti, Cassina, B&B, 
Flou, Vitra, Rosenthal, Yamaha and others, receiving 8 "Compasso d'Oro" 
awards and several international recognitions. His work was also celebrated 
with a personal exhibition at MoMA in New York in 1987. In the early 1980's, 
he inaugurated his career as an architect by signing major projects in Italy 
and overseas, most of which were international tenders: the Villa Erba 
Conference Center in Cernobbio (1986), the Portello exhibition complex in 
Milan (1987), Yokohama Business Park (1987), Tokyo Design Center (1988), 
Risonare Vivre Complex (1989), Arsoa Headquarters (1996). These were 
followed by: Natuzzi Headquarters in the United States (1996), the National 
Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne (1996), the Essen Exhibition Complex in 
Germany (1997), the Turin Cultural Center (2001). Current projects include 
the Verona Forum (since 2004), the new Islamic Arts Museum at the Louvre in 
Paris (since 2005), the two eco-compatible towers for Deutsche Bank 
Headquarters in Frankfurt (since 2006) and the new Fiera Milano Convention 
Center, the largest in Europe and due to be completed by 2010. In 2006 he 
was assigned the development of the new Science-Technology Park at Erzelli 
in Genoa. In 2009 he won a competition for the restoration and functional 
redevelopment of the monumental Brera complex in Milan. He has prepared a 
long list of installations for art and architecture exhibitions in the most 
important museums across the globe, among which "The Treasure of St. Mark's 
in Venice" (1984-1987), "The Triumphs of Baroque Architecture in Europe 
1600-1750" (1999), "Magnificence & Project"(2009). He served as the director 
of Domus magazine from 1986 to 1991. In 2004, he was conferred the Medaglia 
d'Oro by the President of the Italian Republic in recognition of his work in 
Italy and overseas.

GIANPIETRO BORGHINI was born in Brescia on 20 April 1943. He is married and 
has two children. He graduated with a degree in languages from Ca' Foscari 
University in Venice and has a Master's in Slavonic Philology from the 
University of St. Petersburg. He has translated works by the Russian 
philosopher A.I. Herzen for the Einaudi publishing house and by the 
historian V. Rutenburg for Il Mulino. He is a journalist and worked as a 
correspondent in London for the weekly "Rinascita" from 1968 to 1970 before 
serving as the editor of the Rome weekly "Nuova Generazione". He was the 
deputy editor of the daily "L'Unità" from 1980 to 1985 and was in charge of 
the Milan office. He was the director of the daily "Il Giornale di Bergamo" 
from 1993 to 1994. In the political-administrative field, he held a post as 
a Councilor for the Lombardy Regional Government from 1985 to 1992 and then 
again from 2004 to present. From 1990 to 1992, he served as the President of 
the Lombardy Regional Council and from 2004 to 2006 as the Housing and 
Public Works Councilor for the Lombardy Regional Government. From 1992 to 
1993 he was the Mayor of Milan and from 2006 to 2008 the Chief Executive of 
the Milan City Council. From 1996 to 2001 he was a member of the board of 
directors of I.C.E. (Institute for Foreign Trade) and from 2000 to 2001 the 
director of Missione Arcobaleno (private funds) in the Balkans. From 2000 to 
2006 he was the deputy chairman and member of the Steering Committee of 
SACBO S.p.A. of Orio al Serio and was re-appointed in 2008. He is a 
consultant for SEA - Milan Airports where he is in charge of corporate 
relations. He is a member of the board of directors of Fondazione AEM.

GREGORIO CACCIA DOMINIONI was born in Milan on December 22, 1946. He 
graduated in Architecture at the Milan Polytechnic in 1971, where he 
successfully passed the State Exam during the same year. Since 1971 he has 
been working in private practice, mostly with private clients on 
architectural planning, city planning and design. Since 1985 he has been a 
partner at the Caccia Dominioni &Zucca Firm. From 1974 to 1978 he was 
Assistant to City Planning I at the Milan Polytechnic Faculty of 
Architecture. From 1982 to 1985 he was Assistant Coordinator to the Zone I 
Territory and Building Council Committee. From 1986 to 1991 he was Advisor 
to Zone 1 and Coordinator of the Zone Building Committee. He also sat as a 
representative of the same Council on the Municipality of Milan Building 
Committee as well as the City Planning Committee. In 1992 he was a candidate 
to the office of Councilor to the Municipality of Milan City Planning. In 
1996 he was Stage Director for the Order of Architects of Milan and Lodi and 
Representative of the Order of Architects in the Degree Committees for the 
1996 academic year. In 2003 he was part of the Committee for the 
international competition award launched by the Province of Milan for 
planning the center for excellence for innovation and work on Via Soderini. 
In 2004 he acted as spokesperson at the Milan Polytechnic in doctorate 
programs in architectural and urban planning on the theme of large 
containers. In 2007 he took part in the Committee established by the Mayor 
of Milan in support of the same and the Councillor of Mobility, Traffic and 
the Environment for constructing public parking in the underground of Piazza 
Sant'Ambrogio and the Darsena/Catone area.

ARNALDO POMODORO was born in Montefeltro in 1926. He grew up and went to 
school in the Pesaro area. In 1954 he moved to Milan. In the fifties he 
created high-reliefs with unique, original sculptural "characters," his own 
signature, a new sculptural revolution. During the early sixties he moved on 
to "full relief" then to larger pieces. He received many awards for his 
sculptures: in São Paulo in 1963, in Venice in 1964, in Pittsburgh in 1967, 
the Imperial Prize in Tokyo in 1990 and the International Sculpture Center 
Prize, highlighting his career achievements, in 2008. In 1992, he was 
conferred an honorary degree in Arts and Letters at the University of Dublin 
and in 2001 an honorary degree in Construction Engineering and Architecture 
at the University of Ancona. In 1996, he set up the Arnaldo Pomodoro 
Foundation, which in 2005 started exhibiting his works at 35 Via Solari in 
Milan. Numerous exhibitions followed. He exhibited at the Besana Rotunda in 
Milan in 1974 and at Fort Belvedere in Florence in 1984, followed by an 
exhibition in Paris at the Gardens of the Palais-Royal in 2002 and in 
downtown Lugano in 2004. He then held exhibitions along the Paestum 
perimeter walls in 2005 and recently at the Magnani Palace in Reggio Emilia 
in 2006 and at the Priamàr Fortress in Savona in 2007. He also had traveling 
exhibitions in museums in the US and in Europe, America, Australia and 
Japan. In October 2008 the Arnaldo Pomodoro Foundation hosted a collection 
of his works with a representative selection of his monumental sculptures 
created from the 1970s up to today. His works are in large piazzas (Milan, 
Copenhagen, Brisbane, Los Angeles, Darmstadt and Rome), in the Pepsi Cola 
Park in Purchase, NY, at the Trinity College in Dublin, in the Della Pigna 
Courtyard at the Vatican Museums, in the large square of the United Nations 
in New York, at the Paris UNESCO site as well as in the largest public 
collections. He created the new "Gallery of Arms" at the Poldi Pezzoli 
Museum in Milan, with a project that is a combination of set design, 
architecture and sculpture. He taught at the Art Departments of prestigious 
American universities such as Stanford, Berkeley and Mills College. He also 
took care of stage design with "impressive equipment" for large Italian 
theatrical events. Lastly, he created the scenes and costumes for the opera 
"Teneke" by Fabio Vacchi, with text by Franco Marcoaldi, from the homonymous 
tale by Yashar Kemal, which premiered at the la Scala Opera House in 
September 2007, directed by Ermanno Olmi and conducted by Roberto Abbado.