CZA - Cino Zucchi Architetti won the international competition for the design, restoration, and redevelopment of the Royal Cavallerizza complex in Turin, with the aim of creating an international cultural hub in the heart of the city.

The jury also considered particularly interesting the proposal of the French studio Lacaton and Vassal, because of the philosophical approach and the guidelines developed with respect to the redevelopment of the Teatro della Cavallerizza Alfieriana, as well as the ability to combine architectural composition with sustainable, social, and educational elements. The committee, therefore, hopes that these two proposals can find a meeting point, particularly as regards the use of public spaces. The complexity of the intervention, in fact, suggested involving more experiences and skills.

“The Cavallerizza project will give the city a large eighteenth-century area open to the public and connected by the royal gardens with the museum in a real cultural district of the Baroque Turin,” said the mayor of Turin, Stefano Lorusso.

“[The future of Cavallerizza Reale] will give back to the enjoyment of inhabitants and tourists spaces and buildings of great historical and artistic value and [...] will see the birth of a cultural hub driving a new way of doing culture in Turin. With Cavallerizza, in fact, we work to give a new centrality to culture as a driver of the development of the territory,” said Stefano Geuna, Rector of the University of Turin.