The backdrop for the office building, work of the 5+1AA studio and selected for the gold medal of architecture - an honourable declaration, is the outskirts of Vado Ligure. The area has a number of eye sores, evidence of its industrial soul. Elements that particularly stand out include conduits that carry coal from the port of Vado Ligure to the power station, a rubbish dump and certain other industrial and commercial buildings in the part of town where the offices are, but also in the suburb of Bossarino. It is, therefore, a difficult place to come out on top, if for nothing else as it brings up a number of mood-changing, perplexing aspects: to submit and resign to the circumstances, or to reject them outright and as a consequence overreact, with the danger of falling into the naive presumption of being able to improve an entire area with a single building, even one so lacking in homogeneity and potential, with no historic character.
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