Sir David Chipperfield to renovate Procuratie Vecchie in St Mark’s Square, Venice
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Procuratie Vecchie, on the Piazza San Marco in Venice, will soon be turned into an exhibition and conference space by Sir David Chipperfield, with 2020 scheduled as the reopening date. The Italian insurance company Generali selected David Chipperfield Ar
Sir David Chipperfield to renovate Procuratie Vecchie in St Mark’s Square, Venice
Procuratie Vecchie, on the Piazza San Marco in Venice, will soon be turned into an exhibition and conference space by Sir David Chipperfield, with 2020 scheduled as the reopening date. The Italian insurance company Generali selected David Chipperfield Architects Milan to repair and reconfigure the historic building. It will be transformed into the headquarters for Generali’s new social foundation The Human Safety Net.Completed in the 16th century by Jacopo Sansovino, the Procuratie Vecchie is the city’s earliest public building in the Classical style. While the palatial building established the architectural language of the square, centuries of modifications from multiple occupancies have severely compromised its internal structure.The project undertaken by David Chipperfield Architects Milan aims to reunify the interiors of the Procuratie, thereby establishing suitable spaces for the foundation. The building occupies one side of St Mark’s Square, stretching for 500ft along the piazza that Napoleon once famously called “the drawing room of Europe.”Sir David said, “Behind this fantastic facade is a much more jumbled building, and the building has been modified over time, for practical and technical reasons. And through those modifications it has lost some of its character integrity, some of its history. Really, the challenge is to sort it out a bit, tidy it up, and get it back into a better shape.”As part of Chipperfield’s renovations, the facade by Jacopo Sansovino will remain untouched, noted World Architecture News. Read more
