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Specus Corallii

In the autumn of 2015, Cardillo moved back to his hometown Trapani to pursue the idea of bridging the anthropology and archeology of the island of Sicily to the architecture of the present. One year later, he completed construction of Specus Corallii, the oratorio of Trapani Cathedral, commissioned by the chief priest Gaspare Gruppuso. Jean-Marie Martin on Casabella notices: “Antonino Cardillo, an architect who deservedly earned the attention of international critics, has created a space similar to a telescope aimed at the past of the place.”⁠ The work is the fourth in the series of Grottoes which, according to Melbourne-based writer Annie Carroll, “are some of the most influential interiors of recent times.”⁠

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