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The scheme for the Lugano congress centre is both simple and complex, in which the importance given to the parts and the particular “situational” value of the individual elevations, provide a way to rework a complex piece of city without imitation. Around a large Miesian central space, a hall that cuts the site longways is the formal invention that enables a continuous relationship to be established with the tree-lined avenue and the lake: a large usable void that recalls the notion of the street-piazza in the sense of being a place for collective encounter, in which there is a desire to return the built structure to the service of the space for the man.