A new nursery school for 120 children aged 0-3 will open in Guastalla in the province of Reggio Emilia on 19 September, to replace the two municipal nursery schools, Pollicino and Rondine, damaged in the earthquake of May 2012.
The architect Mario Cucinella, head of the firm MCA which designed the facility, sees architecture as an educational vehicle rather than a discipline subject to trends, and the Guastalla project, which earned the highest ranking in the tender procedure for the design and construction of the new building, with a modest budget of just 1,650 euros per square metre, gives full expression to this belief.