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Cino Zucchi "Five housing blocks in Venice"On the island of Giudecca, the abandoned industrial area of the Junghans factory has been turned into a residential neighborhood. Cino Zucchi, winner of the competition for its development, designed five variations on the theme of housing. Text by Mirko Zardini. Photographs by Orsenigo Chemollo / Orch and Cino Zucchi.
The directions given in the estate agent's brochure are precise: four stops by vaporetto from Venice's Santa Lucia train station to the Giudecca and the Palanca landing stage (another four stops and you're in St Mark's Square). From Piazzale Roma, those arriving in Venice by car should then take the same route. From the airport you need only reach Piazzale Roma, and then board the same line of vaporetti. The directions are clear, and useful especially to the non-Venetian. Evidently many of the potential buyers applying to the real estate agents who are handling the sale of apartments in some of the new buildings erected on the island of Giudecca in the area formerly occupied by the Junghans factories, are not in fact Venetian.
The complex of buildings, in part already occupied and that can today be visited, is the outcome of a competition by invitation announced in 1995 by a private enterprise in collaboration with the City of Venezia. The winner was Cino Zu
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