Loggia Isozaki will be done, thanks from Nardella to Franceschini

(ANSA) - FLORENCE, AUGUST 09 - There is also the loggia designed by Arata Isozaki for the new exit of the Uffizi, among the 11 new construction sites of the strategic plan 'Great cultural projects' for over 103 million euros launched by Mibact. A "historic" decision that of Minister Dario Franceschini, "for Florence and for Italian culture", comments the mayor of the capital city of Catania Dario Nardella, "after more than twenty years of inconclusive epolemic discussions on the construction of the lodge of the great Japanese architect Arata Isozaki": the Japanese famous architect won the competition in 1999. "Finally, thanks to the courage of the minister" comes "the final word on the realization of a work that my council has always supported". "With the construction of the loggia destined for the exit of the Uffizi Gallery - continues Nardella - we block the last major obstacle to Firenz's leading role in contemporary creativity. I am sure that the master Isozaki, one of the great undisputed living architects, will rejoice in knowing that his work will the light".
    "The Isozaki lodge will be built: the decision has been pre-defined and sealed with the allocation of the foundations necessary to build it. We thus enter the last phase of the work of the Grand Uffizi. A heartfelt thanks to Minister Francesco for having resolved this more than twenty-year affair in the best way possible" , the comment of the director of the Uffizi EikeSchmidt. (HANDLE).