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Arcade

Milan,

The Arcade project is a shop on Corso XXII Marzo in Milan designed as a miniature palace. Highlights include a labyrinthine perspective with a series of elongated arches, pearlescent greys, mauve greens, and intense magenta

Genres work
Themes arches forms
Typology shop
Intervention types alteration furniture
Stages interrupted unbuilt
Places milan

Work

Antonino Cardillo

The Arcade store appears to the visitor almost as an enchanted palace set in a rationalist building. As in the Stables of Meknes or the Mosque of Cordoba, a succession of arches defines a perspective. The arch, icon of protection, in its slender variant, codified by 13th century Italian painting and often cited by De Chirico, rediscovers in this work its value of connection and separation of parts.

A delicate balancing of pearlescent greys, mauve greens, intense magenta, crystalline marbles, real and false as a toy, and a flat blue painted throughout the structure, form the palette of the scene.

, London, 16 Jan. 2013

Arcade
Enchanted palace with mauve-green arches, through the rationalist building’s shop windows
Arcade
Entrance: elongated arches in pearlescent grey; staircase around the magenta column
Arcade
Interstitial space: succession of arches between walls; pearlescent-grey curved backdrop
Arcade
Circus: crystalline marble counter at the centre, surrounded by a succession of arches
Arcade
Circus: on axis, succession of arches on the first floor; staircase down at the far end
Arcade
Section along the long axis of the circus, whose walls stop short of the flat blue ceiling
Arcade
Horizontal section: the lit circus, with the blue rationalist building around it

Data

  • Time: Design (Apr – May 2012); CGI, Text (May 2012)
  • Place: Corso XXII Marzo, 4, Milan, Italy
  • Area: 450 m² (two storeys)

Credits

  • Architecture, furniture design: Antonino Cardillo
  • Client: confidential
  • CGI, text: Antonino Cardillo
  • Translation: Charles Searson
  • Thanks to Antonio Sechi

Historiography

2019

Often in the modern era, traces of historically significant architectural elements are infused, for the user to achieve a relationship, a kind of familiarity with the aura of the space. The store design reflects the royalty of arches while creating the layered visual imagery, highly defined by the pearlescent shades of whites and blues.

re-thinkingthefuture.com, New Delhi, 10 August 2019 (en, it)

Publications

2013 – 2012

Bibliography

2019 – 2012