Building Beauty: The Art Stations of Naples Unveiled at the Quirinale Stables

In the historic setting of the Quirinale Stables in Rome, Webuild today inaugurates the immersive installation "Building according to beauty: The Art Stations of Naples", coinciding with the public opening of the "Naples in the Nineteenth Century" exhibition. Webuild's immersive room offers visitors a journey inside the Art Stations of Naples, many of which were created by the Group: from the award-winning Toledo, to University, Dante, Museum, Materdei, San Pasquale, Monte Sant'Angelo, up to the Capodichino station that will connect the city to the homonymous airport. The Webuild exhibition project joins the "Naples in the Nineteenth Century" exhibition, which celebrates the city of Naples as a cradle of artists and writers, and testifies how art can integrate into daily life even through functional urban infrastructure. The Art Stations, transit hubs transformed into "museums" thanks to about 200 contemporary art works, are an opportunity to reflect on an innovative idea of the city founded on the harmony between functionality and beauty. Each station has its own distinctive character, conceived by world-famous architects, and for the most part of the stations, depicted through photos by Edoardo Montaina. Toledo, created on the project of the Catalan architect Óscar Tusquets Blanca, is a tribute to light and sea; University, conceived by the Anglo-Egyptian architect and designer Karim Rashid, represents the knowledge of the Third Technological Revolution; Materdei, designed by Atelier Mendini, has brought life back to the square on the surface. But also the Dante and Museum Stations, signed by Gae Aulenti, that of San Pasquale, designed by the architect Boris Podrecca, and that of Monte Sant'Angelo, where the art of Anish Kapoor dialogues with urban architecture. To these is added the under-construction station of Capodichino, designed by Ivan Harbour of RSHP Studio, a new example of the union between beauty and engineering in the city with the cylindrical shape inspired by the Well of Saint Patrick in Orvieto. The Group, which has built 14,140 km of railways and subways around the world, has been present in Campania since the '80s with significant works such as the Napoli-Afragola high-speed station designed by the starchitect Zaha Hadid, and is currently working on four sections of the Napoli-Bari high-speed railway line, which will allow to connect the two cities in 2 hours, against the current approximately 4 hours. The sections are among the 19 projects that the Group is carrying out in Southern Italy, with almost 5,450 people already working directly and indirectly. To support the realization of these projects and, more generally, to meet the needs related to the infrastructural development of the country, Webuild has also launched the "Cantiere Lavoro Italia" program, which aims to train and hire 10,000 people by 2026, 88% of whom in Southern Italy. The initiative at the Quirinale Stables is part of the Group's Cultural Agenda, which includes a series of events and initiatives around the world, in collaboration with institutional partners, to support the development of culture. Among the most recent initiatives, the immersive exhibition in Australia on Leonardo Da Vinci, sponsored by Webuild, which brings the Atlantic Codex for the first time to the country since March 16, and the artistic lighting project for the requalification of the Crypt of Sant’Agnese in Agone in Piazza Navona in Rome, subject to partial restoration.