Mario Bellini is an architect and designer internationally
renowned. He received the Golden Compass Award eight times and 25 of his works
are in the permanent design collection of the New York MoMA, which dedicated to
him a personal retrospective in 1987. He was editor of Domus magazine
(1985-1991). He has designed countless art, design and architecture exhibitions
over the years, both in Italy and abroad: among the latest those at Palazzo
Reale with Giotto's masterpieces (2016) and - at the Milanese Museo del '900 -
the one dedicated to Margherita Sarfatti (2018-2019). In 2015 the Milan
Triennale awarded him the Gold Medal for his career in architecture and in 2017
dedicated a retrospective exhibition to him. The same exhibition that will be
organized again in Moscow in March 2019. 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, while the new
Headquarters Generali Group in Trieste has just been inaugurated. Projects
currently underway are the New Polytechnic School of Genoa (2006-2020), a vast
hotel and residential development on Virgin Gorda Island in the British Virgin
Island (2018-2020). 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.