Today we took a day long trip to three pieces of modern architecture. The first was the Parco Della Musica by Renzo Piano. The design consists of three separate auditoriums which each have different acoustical qualities. The three pods are often compared to beatles, due to their shape. The roof is made of lead panels, and the interiors range from wood to brick. The coolest part of the structures could be seen by climbing up the fire escapes. Once you did it felt as if you were in a whale's belly.
The next stop was the Adreatine monument which commemorates a site where 340 Italians were murdered by the Germans during the occupation. Afterwards the Germans bombed the caves in a few spots to make it look like an accident. The monument incorporates the caves themselves and you enter in and see where the bodies were interred. The architects preserved the holes where the bombs came through the caves.
Finally we ended with Richard Meir's Jubilee Church, which is way on the outskirts of the city. The building was okay, but looked terrible in the context of what was around it. In Meir fashion the building was all white, and felt completely separate from the surroundings. As you can see from the photos below the idea behind the building was a boat...
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