The proposed scheme, winner of a city-sponsored design competition, calls for the demolition of the parking surface and a crumbling bus station. In their place will be a new public piazza and marketplace atop two levels of new underground parking that accommodates 500 cars. A shallow, water-filled basin surrounds the plaza's pair of inflected, trapezoidal ground planes.
New bridges link the pieces both to each other and the city.
A new marketplace on the plaza reintroduces a role the site had from the late 19th century to the 1960s. The elements are taken apart one by one, studied carefully, and put back together very carefully. I was initially disturbed by the separation of the plaza from its context by the water. I like that the architect addressed the problem of parking in an Italian city. This project is not about making a lyrical public place - Italy is full of lyrical public places.