GA wins JURY GRAND PRIZE at Designverse Awards 2025
GHISELLINI ARCHITETTI wins the Jury Grand Prize at the Designverse Awards 2025 in the Public Space Category (Landscape Design – Memorial Landscape), with the project VEGETAL JOINTS.
The project focuses on the niche of historic cemetery renovation. Featuring fully accessible, continuous flat spaces catering to people of all abilities, its vegetal joints ecological system succesfully revitalizes a previously barren,mineralized site, harmonizing practicality with the emotional needs of memorial spaces.
Innovatively using waste porphyry to create “tactile” pavements that metaphorize life’s journey, paired with low-profile warm-toned travertine tombstones, the cemetery renovation transcends mere spatial expansion to become a cultural carrier of collective memory.
The award goes to the emotional tone of the memorial project
Its contemporary minimalist aesthetics resonate precisely with the local environment and architectural traditions, preserving the cemetery’s memorial core while achieving dual breakthroughs in ecological quality and aesthetic value enhancement in a specialized field.
Read the article to the awarded project here.