Alvisi Kirimoto + Partners
After 10 years of working in collaboration with architects like Renzo Piano, Massimiliano Fuksas and Oscar Niemeyer, Massimo Alvisi and Junko Kirimoto founded the architecture office Alvisi Kirimoto + Partners in 2002. A few years afterwards they established an engineering partnership with Alessandra Spiezia and Arabella Rocca in 2008.
The office, currently with a staff of ten people, has collected several awards in the past few years: first prize for “Meno è più 4” competition for a nursery and civic centre in Rome second prize for “Piccole Stazioni Ferroviarie” competition second prize for “Madrid 2016 – kayak site” competition for Madrid Olympic nomination first prize for the “Corato Theatre restoration” competition, a building which was recently opened to the public. Among various prizes, the AIT Award 2012 for the Naples Art Academy Theater, selected in the category: public building interiors.
The main finished projects by Alvisi Kirimoto + Partners are: Molino Casillo Headquarters in Puglia, Italy Incà, a complex of small and medium factories in Barletta (Bari), Italy the Naples Fine Arts Academy Theater, Italy a hotel in Dalmine (Bergamo), Italy a residential building in Trani (Bari), Italy the temporary pavilions for the Rome Cinema Fest, Italy the new Japanese restaurant Hamasei in Rome, Italy the Davide Cenci’s stores in Rome and in Milan, Italy the TIM shop Il telefonino in Genova and the TIM showroom in Rome, Italy.