Italy at Expo Osaka 2025 with Mario Cucinella’s ‘The Ideal City’ – Lifestyle | CPT PPP Coverage

(ANSA) – ROME, AUG 10 – The contract to design and build the
Italian Pavilion at Expo Osaka 2025 has been awarded: the winner
is the project presented by the architect Mario Cucinella, a
highly respect professional and the winner of many international
awards.


   
The Italy Pavilion will represent a modern version of The Ideal
City, an image that is a symbol of the Italian Renaissance.


   
Bearing in mind the Expo Osaka theme- Designing Future Societies
for Our Lives – the commission sought to reward the project that
reflects the Italian identity in the most effective way, with a
contemporary approach of great impact, expressing the values at
the foundation of our culture: an Italian vision of social space
based on integration, inclusivity, and on a culture of “doing”
based on real relations and interactions, which is well
represented by the deeply rooted concepts of our tradition of
“piazza”, “theatre” and “garden”.


   
The project’s characteristics of flexibility and adaptability
will also make it possible to have an exceptional partnership
because – for the first time at a universal exposition – the
Italian Pavilion will host the presence of the Holy See: a
large, easily recognisable space that will make it possible to
be the venue for cultural events and important art shows in
collaboration with the Dicastery for Evangelization, which is in
charge of the organization.


   
Deputy Premier and Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani said: “the
Italian Pavilion will be an effective instrument of the
diplomacy of growth, a strategy that I launched at the start of
my term together with the whole government team that also aims
to promote tourism and our regions, support the
internationalization of our sectors of production and attract
investments, and valorize our technologies and Italian know-how.


   
“The collaboration with the Vatican is an achievement that I am
particularly proud of,” added Tajani.


   
“The unique pavilion will ensure that visitors have a
high-quality experience, with particularly significant contents,
inspired by culture and shared values.


   
“We want to reinforce and structure our strategic partnership
with Japan, which was launched in January by our prime
ministers, in particular in the industrial and scientific
sectors where it can grow even more,” continued Tajani.


   
“Italy wants to make its presence even more visible in Asia and
the Indo-Pacific regions, which are of growing geopolitical and
economic importance, focusing on an approach based on
inclusivity and cooperation”. (ANSA).