The Morandi Bridge collapsed in August
Top Italian architect Renzo Piano has offered to help design a new Genoa bridge to replace the Morandi Bridge, which tragically collapsed on the 14th of August this year. Piano, who designed London’s Shard and the Pompidou Centre in Paris, grew up in Genoa and has also already been heavily involved in redesigning the city’s Old Port area. He currently lives in Paris but has an office in Genoa and retains close bonds with the city of his childhood. It is understood that he has already presented officials with a design for his new bridge. In an interview with the Observer, Piano said he felt it was his duty to respond to the disaster in some way, and that the design of the new structure will be hugely important: “It must be a place where people can recognise the tragedy in some way, while also providing a great entrance to the city.”