Rome, Raggi: “a new Piazza dei Cinquecento by 2025”

The projects classified in the first five places of the ranking of the design competition for the urban and functional redevelopment of the Termini junction and Piazza dei Cinquecento, announced last December 2020 by the FS Italiane Group – with its companies Grandi Stazioni Rail, FS Sistemi were presented Urbani and the Italian Railway Network – together with Roma Capitale and with the technical support of the Order of Architects of Rome and the Province. “We want to open and make the new square accessible by the jubilee of 2025”, announced the mayor of Rome Virginia Raggi speaking at the presentation in the pavilion of the former slaughterhouse in the capital. “Our vision aimed to exalt regeneration as the founding heart of the transformation of Rome into the city of the future”, a place where “territories are not consumed but forgotten spaces are re-appropriated”, “in a process of transformation that reduces inequalities “. Piazza dei Cinquecento “from the initial structure of 1950 has never been reorganized” and has undergone developments without an organic design. “In recent years – said Raggi – we have done a great job of regenerating the city starting from the mobility nodes, railway nodes and urban plan of sustainable mobility. A city that transforms itself around mobility is a city that finally becomes tailor-made of the citizen “. Among the main objectives of the competition, illustrated among others also by Umberto Lebruto, managing director FS Sistemi Urbani and by Silvio Gizzi, managing director Gs Rail, the achievement of the full integration of the Termini station in the urban context by redeveloping the public space, the transformation of the station in an efficient integrated mobility hub in line with the Pums guidelines, the creation of safe and continuous cycle and pedestrian connections and the rationalization of local public transport lines, optimizing their presence on the square. The second stage of the competition ended on June 18 with the publication of the provisional ranking of the five finalist teams and in the coming weeks the final award will be made after the completion of the administrative checks and the requirements of the announcement. The works will begin in 2023. These are the projects chosen: In first place, the commission selected the project of the team formed by Tvk sarl, It’s srl, artelia Italia spa, Net Engineering spa, Michela Rustici and Latitude Platform for Urban Research and Design. In second place the project of the team composed of Minnucci Associati srl, Ambiente e Tecnologie srl, Studio Vitale Russo – Servizi di Ingegneria srl ​​and Zmyrna Limited. Third was the project by Studio Martini Ingegneria srl, Open Project srl, Architect Andrea Nonni, Bureau B + B and Architect Dario Curatolo. In fourth place the Giovanni Vaccarini Architects Studio. Fifth place for the project by architects Gianluca Vosa, Raffaella Napolano, Vanna Cestarello and Luigi Emanuele Amabile.