Stefano Boeri's Rome: Deposito delle Vittorie Map
Stefano Boeri’s Rome work has, in eighteen months, turned from a one-off Colosseum-perimeter commission into an 8,000-square-metre rooftop garden on an ATAC tram depot the city had left empty since 2006 — and the gesture grounds the Milanese Vertical Forest vocabulary, formerly reserved for new towers, into the city’s nineteenth-century industrial fabric. The Stefano Boeri Rome catalogue is small but precisely split: Stefano Boeri Architetti is converting the 16,000 sqm Deposito delle Vittorie at Piazza Bainsizza in the Prati-Della Vittoria district, while sister practice Stefano Boeri Interiors has just finished the southern-ambulatory restoration of the Colosseum for the Parco Archeologico del Colosseo. Two projects, two practices, two centuries of fabric — and one designer, Stefano Boeri, translating a Milan signature into a Roman idiom. ...