Client: Finanziaria Bologna Metropolitana, Comune di Bologna
Project: MCA, Arch. Mario Cucinella
Description: Curved glass and steel enclosure, glass floors and interior finishes.
Location: Bologna, Italia
Photo: Courtesy MCA
Year: 2003

“Le gocce” of the urban center built in Bologna are covered in a double ‘skin’. The external ‘skin’ made of curved laminated glass; the second, internal, is instead made up of a series of vertical transparent plexiglass tubes.
Each tube is illuminated from below by a system of LEDs that mix to create a dynamic light effect.