Real Architecture: Massimiliano Fuksas presents the Milan Trade Fair

Weds 10 November 2004

  • Massimiliano Fuksas' Ferrari Research Centre
  • Massimiliano Fuksas' Trade Fair design in Milan
  • Massimiliano Fuksas' Ferrari Research Centre
  • Massimiliano Fuksas' Trade Fair design in Milan

Massimiliano Fuksas advocates architecture "of the emotions". His astonishing new building for the New Milan Trade Fair, which covers an area of two million square metres, realises this idea at a huge scale. Described by Fuksas as one of "the cathedrals of new society" it includes a light, "veil-like" roof 1300 metres long.  Continuously undulating, the shape, "as in a natural landscape, is never repetitive, giving the visitor an animating, continuously varying perspective."