Mario Bellini
“Tell me what chair you’ve designed and I’ll tell you what sort of architect you are!”
Mario’s Story
Mario Bellini is an architect and designer internationally renowned. He has designed countless art, design and architecture exhibitions over the years, both in Italy and abroad.. Since 1991 he is Royal Honorary Designer of RDI. Since the 1980’s Mario Bellini, dedicating himself almost entirely to architecture, has designed numerous kinds of buildings including the Portello Trade Fair district in Milan, the Villa Erba Exhibition and Convention Centre in Cernobbio (Como), the Tokyo Design Centre in Japan, the Natuzzi America Headquarters in the United States, the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, the Deutsche Bank Headquarters in Frankfurt, the City History Museum of Bologna, the Department of Islamic Art at the Louvre in Paris, the new Milan Convention Centre – the largest in Europe – and in Rome-Fiumicino the new international Airterminal T3 has been completed.
He has various projects at the design stage, among which, the “Bin-County Project”, a new city for entertainment, sport and culture in the Harbin area in China (2018-2023), the new Headquarters of RAI in Milan “Italian radio and television broadcasting studios and offices”, and a large Residential Cultural and Sports Complex “Oasis” in the Gulf Area.
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Awards
He received the Golden Compass Award eight times and 25 of his works are in the permanent design collection of the New York MoMA. In 2015 the Milan Triennale awarded him the Gold Medal for his career in architecture and in 2017 dedicated a retrospective exhibition to him.
