This 2002 public music complex in Rome was a must-visit for me a few years ago. Designed by renowned architect Renzo Piano, half of the team who created the Pompidou in Paris, also recently opened a modern-art wing for LACMA (Los Angeles County Museum of Art), the Parco della Musica is three beetle-like concert halls surrounding an ampitheatre reminiscent of Greco-Roman performance spaces.
The three
separate halls and outdoor theatre are joined by a continuous lobby and various rehearsal rooms and recording studios. Red brick is used in tribute to Rome's ancient structures and in contrast to the grey metal hall roofs and adjoining modern glass and steel structure which consists of a restaurant and bookstore. 
Walking through the foyer, one will come across a luminous route with 20 neon compositions, made by Tuscan artist Maurizio Nannucci. Since the mid 1960's Nannucci has devoted himself to exploring relations between language, writing & visual images, and in 1967 began to create neon "writings", adding another dimension of meaning to his work. These permanent pieces have been created exclusively for the Auditorium Parco della Musica.
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| Greg discovers neon art by Maurizio Nannucci |
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