Turin Olympic Sports Hall

Arata Isozaki – also known as PalaAlpitour or PalaIsozaki, Turin Italy, 2003-2005

Il Olympic Sports Hall, Also known as PalaAlpitour for commercial needs or PalaIsozaki because of its creator, is a covered multipurpose facility in Turin; it is located in Corso Sebastopoli, adjacent to the Stadio Olimpico Grande Torino, and was built between 2003 and 2005 in view of the 2006 Winter Olympic Games. With a capacity of 14 seats, it is the largest covered structure in Italy for sports use.
The futuristic building appears as a rigorous Cartesian parallelepiped covered in stainless steel and glass, with a base of 183 by 100 meters. It is developed on four levels, two underground (up to 7,5 meters below ground) and two outdoors (up to 12 meters high). The overall length of the facility is approximately 200 meters.
The structure, designed to be a real “event factory“, using the words of its architect, is completely flexible and modular in its internal structure: in the arrangement of the mobile stands (thanks to a modern system of mobile and retractable steps and the possibility of moving a temporary deck), in the acoustics and in the systems.
Source: https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palasport_Olimpico

From 10 to 14 May 2022, the great show of the was held in this important structureEuro Vision Song Contest.
The theme of this edition organized by Rai Radiotelevisione Italiana, “The sound of beauty”, seems to fit perfectly in Italy, a country steeped in that beauty, and it was the person who translated all this into a concrete workAtelier Francesca Montinaro, winner of the competition of ideas announced by Rai.
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