The New York Times publishes an article by Laura Rysman titled “Wild, Beautiful and Overlooked: Southern Sardinia Is Ready to Share Its Essence,” which analyzes the Mediterranean charm of the southern part of Sardinia, between white sandy beaches and new developments, citing the design for the new Green Promenade for Cagliari’s seafront by Stefano Boeri Architetti.
The Sardinian capital is undergoing rapid transformations, especially in the Marina district where Stefano Boeri Architetti’s project includes the redevelopment of the promenade on Via Roma, an intervention on the waterfront of the Port and the redevelopment of Piazza Matteotti.
The new project aims to rethink Cagliari’s waterfront with the goal of regaining a direct and pedestrian relationship between the port and the city, creating a green and accessible promenade for all, enhancing the area’s mixité character, to implement social inclusion and community cohesion, creating new epicenters of collective life also in anticipation of developments of the area towards the port.
Respecting the spirit of the site, the project-through the careful selection of plant essences, mineral materials and street furniture-wants to create a coherent system capable of restoring a uniform and identity-based perception of the place, thus overcoming the unevenness and disorder of the current state. The intervention context, dense with symbols and history, is in fact located in a dynamic intermodal urban space that is intended to serve as the main gateway to the city. A space that will be able to translate into a “linear botanical garden” in which to also recognize the history of the city of Cagliari, its contaminations and its cosmopolitan character.
To read the full article: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/06/travel/southern-sardinia-tourism-cagliari-tourism.html