From Treviso to Mt Gravatt (Queensland, Australia)

Treviso is a small city in the Veneto region of northern Italy. The city lay in proximity of Via Postumia, an old Roman road connecting major cities of Roman Venetia, during ancient times.

Piazza Giacomo Matteotti, in Treviso, dates back to 1509. Among the many architectural jewels of the piazza are the Church of Santa Caterina (1346) and the Civic Museum of Treviso, where many paintings and excavated artefacts dating back to the 14th century can be found.

Piazza Matteotti is also home to another architectural jewel: a thirty metre tall telecommunications tower, clad in 36 double-glazed panels and almost 500 Murano tile mosaic, light blue, cobalt blue and yellow insets. The design of this mosaic was studied in view of its effect under the sunlight, and at night, when internally illuminated.

This tower was part of the Council redevelopment of Piazza Matteotti, that saw the entrance to the Church of Santa Caterina being integrated with The Civic Museum. In addition to providing mobile communications in such a sensitive site, the tower helped to revitalise this heritage location with an iconic piece of modern architecture.

Hear from Dario Pigozzo of P3 Projects, how he came across the Mosaic tower of Piazza Matteotti, and how it inspired him to build the Scurrs Mosaic tower in Mt Gravatt, Queensland Australia.