TEATRO BORSONI – Grand opening!

We are truly delighted to announce that our project for the new « Teatro Borsoni » is finally completed and officially opens its doors to the city of Brescia today!

The official inauguration will take place this morning, with the ribbon-cutting ceremony scheduled for 11:30 AM, but the celebration for the opening of this new cultural space will last until Monday, September 23rd.

The « Oltre la Strada » redevelopment project aims to regenerate the « Via Milano » area in Brescia on three levels: infrastructural, urban, and socio-cultural. A symbol of this revitalization is the new Teatro Borsoni, located in a former degraded industrial area.

The theater, with a main hall seating 312 and a children’s hall with 169 seats, is presented as a 21×64 m parallelepiped, 9 meters tall. The exterior is made of prefabricated diamond-shaped concrete blocks measuring 4×1.25 meters, creating a cyclopean wall. The 19-meter-tall fly tower, clad in backlit polycarbonate panels, becomes a new urban landmark. The entrance, a recessed 7-meter metal loggia, houses the double-height foyer and a bar.

« An abandoned site now hosts a highly iconic building as a response to physical and social decay, » stated architect Botticini. « The inspiration for the project came from the post-industrial context and the idea of architecture looking back to the Renaissance, seen as a concept of civic and urban architecture. »

The structure of the theater, the architect continued, « seeks to establish a relationship between the interior and exterior spaces. And ‘relationship’ is indeed the key word for the new theater, which aims to open up to the city and create a bond with the surrounding territory. »

Discover the project: Teatro Borsoni