Coronavirus: star architect Vittorio Gregotti dies

The Italian star architect Vittorio Gregotti died on Sunday in Milan at the age of 92. He had been hospitalized due to a coronavirus disease. “Italy loses a master of international architecture in these dark hours,” commented Stefano Boeri, President of the Milan Design Museum Triennale.

Gregotti, born in Milan in 1927, has planned the cultural center of Belem in Lisbon, the Olympic Stadium in Barcelona, ​​the Guggenheim Museum in Venice and the headquarters of Air France in Montreuil near Paris. He was also commissioned to renovate the “La Gaite de Paris” concert hall in Paris. He also created the Teatro degli Arcimboldi in Milan and numerous universities, most recently the University of Calabria in Cosenza.

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