The Good, the Bad, the Remaking of a Libera-Designed Cinema for Ennio Morricone

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'>Cinema Airone, an oddly shaped yet majestic theater in Rome’s Appio Latino-Tuscolano neighborhood, is the

center of some decidedly up-to-the-minute buzz. Under an agreement expected to be finalized today, the long-abandoned building by Adalberto Libera is slated for a makeover to house the entire archive of 2007 Oscar recipient and composer Ennio Morricone.
An Italian Rationalist best known for his Casa Malaparte, on the Isle of Capri, and Palace of Congresses, in Rome’s EUR district, Libera designed the 800-seat Airone in 1953. The cinema is one of his more playful designs: a cavernous, 16,145-square-foot structure located mainly below grade level. A precursor to the blob-like buildings that are so common today, such as Renzo Piano’s Parco della Musica Auditorium in Rome, its roofline undulates across the site to conform to the rounded volumes of its subterranean theater. (...)

Fonte: Architectural Record