Not that Gabellini is a complete Luddite. For me, it is a very immediate process to really have a specific sense of a place in terms of light and air. The whole history of Verona's water creates a very physical sensation when you are there. I felt that turning the piazza into a bus station and marketplace prevented that part of the city from growing in a positive way. It actually declined.
Bus stations bring in a kind of unhealthy transient life.
So for me the project became a celebration of a history that had been lost. It was a way to remind inhabitants of the loss. . . In fact, many of the finer points of its execution are still being worked out. He believes that the water running over the stones in the interior will keep their surfaces clean. She seems almost in awe of what Gabellini has accomplished with this design.