YACademy’s alumni and BIG’s designers work together for greener cities and hotels as icons of urban sustainability


This post is brought to you by YACademy. In the meeting rooms of the Royal Carlton, in Bologna, the working table promoted by the Monrif group carried out research aimed at re-imagining the group’s hotels as tools for green and urban sustainability met for the first time.  The idea came from the group’s head of operation, Nicola Foschini, who imagined the group’s hotels as destination hotels. To this end, they involved YACademy, a leading international institute in the field of architectural design, Danish firm Bjarke Ingels, and architect Giulio Rigoni to lead a group of alumni of the academy in creative brainstorming. The goal was that within a month, they would have suggestions to imagine a more beautiful, green, and sustainable Bologna, thanks to the presence of the group’s hotels.  Image courtesy of YACademy.The research and project consisted of eight architects from five different countries who started to develop a design for the requalification of the facades of the Royal Car...