An office in Catania
An office for Booking.com in Catania
(General Contractor: Tétris Design & Build - Milano)
Located inside an enchanting XVII century palace, Booking.com's new offices in Catania are based on a deeply evocative concept imbued in local scenarios and influences.
However, this project interprets Catania and her spirit in a slightly different way, aiming to highlight her chiaroscuro effects, her shades, her enchanting decadence, her well-known and manifest aspect of brightness and Mediterranean liveliness.
The austerity of baroque palaces, immersed in enduring shadows and the silent and secret atmospheres in the city streets are echoed within these rooms, whose style is purposely kept austere, dark, almost "monastic".
The architectural structure of the building is maintained as per its sequence of wide and aristocratic rooms with vaulted ceilings.
The walls were chromatically smoothed using a deep hue of grey, counterbalanced here and there by decorative finishings made of building panels and furnishings that recall the traditional Caltagirone pottery.
