BIG reveals colonnaded entrance to San Pellegrino factory in Italy
Architecture studio BIG has released photos of San Pellegrino Flagship Factory under construction in a mountain valley in Italy, nearly a decade after designs were first revealed.
Scheduled for completion in 2027, the concrete facility will contain the headquarters and bottling plant for soft drinks company San Pellegrino on the bank of a river in Bergamo.
The project was first revealed by BIG in 2017, after the studio won an international competition to design it with a proposal that pays homage to traditional Italian architecture.
As seen in the photos, the 17,000-square-metre San Pellegrino Flagship Factory will feature tall concrete arches that reimagine traditional Italian arcades, piazzas and porticos.
The design was chosen ahead of entries by studios including MVRDV, Snøhetta and Architetto Michele De Lucchi.
It was originally expected to complete in 2022, featuring on Dezeen's list of buildings to look forward to that year.
"Like the mineral water itself – the new San Pellegrino Factory and Experience Lab will seem to spring from its natural source," BIG founder Bjarke Ingels said when the project was revealed.
"We propose to wash away the traditional segregation between front and back of house, to create a seamless continuity between the environment of production and consumption, preparation and enjoyment."
In a recent Instagram post revealing his own photos of the ongoing construction, Ingels described the building as "the aquatic equivalent of a wine cellar".
Also visible in the photos is a bridge created as part of the project to provide access to the site, engraved with the text S Pellegrino.
BIG was founded by Ingels in Copenhagen in 2005. Today it has studios in New York, Barcelona and London.
We also recently published construction photos of the studio's pixelated King Toronto Residences in Canada, which is due to welcome residents next year.
Elsewhere, BIG is currently developing Hamburg State Opera and an interfaith complex near Tirana.
The photography is by SchirraGiraldi and the renders are courtesy of BIG.
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