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Olbia, Terranova Shopping Center

We can close the exhibition of the most recent architectures, which takes on the character of a choice between different possibilities, with some achievements that for different reasons are worth as many “unique pieces”, a bit for the type of building (the convent one), a bit for the elitist aspect of the operation (the small outdoor theater), a bit for the ennobling of a genre that has now worn out and above all made in series (the shopping center).
The first, also in chronological order, is the Carmelite convent, built on the Cucullìo hill in Nuoro by the architect Savin Couëlle, son of the “inventor” of the Emerald Coast. This is a “plastic” intervention that models environments and volumes with a freedom of composition and attention to detail that testify to a sort of “architectural craftsmanship” typical of the Couëlle.
Mario Ceroli's theater in Porto Rotondo is the revival of the ancient theater, and therefore outdoors, with a cavea and the orchestra, occupied by the seats, closed by a wall where classical quotes are exhibited, even in the artist's unmistakable hand.
Finally, in Olbia, the “Terranova” shopping center becomes the material transposition of a dream of its main architect, the architect Aldo Rossi: the tangible rendering of the suggestions of an architecture like the Sardinian one, characterized by the color of the materials, often associated in horizontal lines, becomes the Leitmotif of Olbia's creation. A 'memory' of the past, in short, not its copy or, worse, its imitation in an unlikely 'Neo-Sardinian' style, which at a time of great uncertainty concerning not only architecture but human life, can become a point of reference, shareable or not, as a warning to the future.

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26/2/2026 - 11:17