First look: History underpins Sergison Bates’s Swiss piazza plan for Mendrisio

2010-10-15T00:00:00

Bands of concrete and brickwork echo the piazza’s medieval tower.

Sergison Bates has won the competition to redesign Piazza del Ponte in Mendrisio, Switzerland, where Jonathan Sergison also holds a professorship at the Accademia della Architettura

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