The Noah’s Ark nursery school is a new 3,380 square meters structure within Villa Paglia’s park a heritage site protected by the Italian Heritage Department Designed by Carlo Cappai and Maria Alessandra Segantini of C+S Architects the school is intended to foster creativity Maria Alessandra Segantini explained: ‘This school represents an innovative approach to designing educational spaces — an act of breaking down barriers that fosters socialization and creativity among children and the entire surrounding community.’ images © Alessandra Bello The design team at C+S Architects sites its Noah’s Ark nursery school on what was once the vegetable garden of Villa Paglia The site is marked by a series of historical elements including pergolas and stone walls that integrate into the new school’s design By incorporating these existing features and adding new ones such as a red-pigmented concrete retaining wall C+S Architects ensured that the school blends harmoniously with its surroundings ‘We conceived this school building with the idea of creating a space that could be used by the entire community,’ Segantini noted The design draws inspiration from Alzano Lombardo’s industrial past references the town’s history as a center for concrete production while the white glass mosaic tiles that clad the school honor Italy’s post-war design masters create a contrast with the natural landscape and bring the industrial heritage into a modern educational setting C+S Architects completes Noah’s Ark nursery school in Alzano Lombardo One of the more personal touches of the design comes from Segantini’s memories of playing with Enzo Mari’s animal puzzle as a child This inspired the team to engrave animal figures along a red concrete ramp leading to the school ‘I wanted every child to feel that warmth in my school—that sense of being together that joy of playing while learning,’ Segantini shared These playful elements create a sense of connection between the children and their environment the school’s design emphasizes openness and flexibility with a central hall connecting different wings allowing for a variety of uses beyond standard educational activities Large windows and internal courtyards ensure that natural light floods into the building creating an environment that invites both learning and play ‘We have designed a ‘space of potential,’ where every area can be transformed by the creativity of the teachers or the community that surrounds it,’ said Carlo Cappai playful elements like animal engravings inspired by Enzo Mari’s puzzle are featured along the ramp The school is designed to adapt to different teaching methods and activities Classrooms can be transformed into art studios while the central hall can be used for community events outside school hours This flexibility makes the Noah’s Ark nursery school not only an educational space but also a cultural hub for the entire Alzano Lombardo community In line with modern sustainability standards Noah’s Ark nursery school is classified as a Nearly Zero Energy Building (NZEB) It uses alternative energy sources to minimize environmental impact and maximize energy efficiency The project is a model for future public buildings combining functional design with a commitment to sustainability The project was born from the need to replace an outdated 1950s school with a modern Mayor Camillo Bertocchi explained: ‘The decision was made to rebuild the school in a location with better solar and climatic exposure promoting accessibility and proximity to public services It is a building designed to support new learning models providing a welcoming and flexible space.’ the school is located in the historic park of Villa Paglia transparency and community engagement is emphasized the area’s historical elements and industrial heritage are emphasized with red concrete and white glass mosaic the layout is flexible with a central hall and courtyards allowing for various teaching methods and activities Noah’s Ark is a nearly zero energy building promoting sustainability and energy efficiency name: Noah’s Ark Nursery School architect: C+S Architects | @c_sarchitects photography: © Alessandra Bello | @ab_alessandrabello_fotografia client: Municipality of Alzano Lombardo lead designers: Carlo Cappai e Maria Alessandra Segantini project manager: Maria Alessandra Segantini with Tommaso Iaiza C+S ARCHITECTS structures: Sergio Myallonier Myallonier Ingegneria srl MEP: Enrico Zambonelli MCZ Ingegneria srl acoustics: Andrea Breviario contractor: Impresa Perico AXOR presents three bathroom concepts that are not merely places of function but destinations in themselves — sanctuaries of style A dive into the incredible world of the most famous wizard ever An event full of magic and enchantment just a few steps from Milan the Hogwarts magic arrives near Milan with the Harry Potter Village The experience will feature shows and performances with traveling performers enchanting the audience with magic Making the atmosphere even more realistic will be the free interpretations of some of the characters inspired by the saga: from the gentle giant Hagrid with his iconic wooden hut reproduced in 360 degrees to the terrifying ten-foot-tall Dementors wandering around with you and others such as the fantastic Professor McGonagall and the ever-present Headmaster Dumbledore as well as a display of hawks owls and owls-you’ll remember that the wizards’ trusted companions were these feathered creatures You will then find the famous Platform 9 ¾ Gringott’s Bank and even a dedicated Quidditch station All children will be dressed in Harry Potter-themed costumes (with school robes) and even some parents who will participate in the adventure as antagonists (Dementors and Death Eaters) Italy (AP) — Their last hug was through plastic Palmiro “Mario” Tami knew this was the day he was getting his second coronavirus vaccine shot But with the northern Italian region of Lombardy again under lockdown he did not know it would be accompanied by a visit from his wife of 58 years exclaimed as he peered through the window of the nursing home rec room at a figure wrapped in a hospital gown coiffed hair covered by green surgical netting and face obscured by a surgical mask Tami reached inside his canvas pouch for a tiny statuette of a girl for her “I won it at Bingo,” Tami said with delight The Martino Zanchi Foundation Nursing Home has been closed to visitors for most of the month as Italy’s pandemic epicenter of Lombardy plunged again into a near-total lockdown Tami and his wife last saw each other in person on Feb They were able to embrace through a hug tunnel an inflatable plastic structure that permitted residents to safely hug loved ones Even that muffled touch had been denied since August The final jab for the first one-third of the nursing home’s 94 residents this week marked the beginning of the end of a year-long struggle to protect its fragile wards Nursing homes like the Martino Zanchi Foundation suffered the brunt of Italy’s first wave claiming at least one-third of Italy's official virus victims Many more were not tested or counted as they died Nursing home director Maria Giulia Madaschi estimates that three-quarters of the 21 people who died in her care in March and April 2020 had COVID-19 spreading from Alzano Lombardo's hospital nearby But the system was too taxed to test nursing home residents and those deaths never figured into Italy's death toll Italy has prioritized vaccines to the devastated nursing homes, and officials have declared a decline in cases among residents “an initial success" in a vaccination campaign otherwise marred by supply delays and disorganization Half of Italy's over-80s at large still have not been vaccinated despite initial promises to have them fully vaccinated by the end of March On Monday, 27 of the nursing home's residents received their second shot. Another round of vaccinations were made in the week, and the final group will be protected in early April. Madaschi hopes this is a sign that they are emerging from the dark COVID-19 tunnel. knowing Tami's pride in his former profession teased that she had once been his apprentice Tami had arrived at the nursing home in August during a lull in the pandemic Tami had suffered mobility and cognitive declines due to heart issues and then his wife underwent surgery for cancer shortly before Italy’s 2020 spring lockdown Doctors advised she could no longer give him the care he needed at home The irregularity of visits and the changing restrictions due to COVID-19 were a cause of stress — and a strong enough reason for Madaschi to make an exception to the no-visitor rule including that of a first great-grandchild dressed elegantly in a knit top with a shimmer of gold lurex “I wasn’t even this nervous on my wedding day,” she said But the nursing home staff had prepared a private table in the rec room for lunch as Persico explained that she still hadn’t been vaccinated reminding her husband that she was a cancer patient who needed to take extra care “I am crazy in love with you,” Tami said across the long table Madaschi pushed Tami outdoors into the sunlight “We can kiss each other again?” he asked from behind his mask By Fabio Bucciarelli and Jason HorowitzMarch 27 Share full article0+No country has been hit harder by the coronavirus than Italy and no province has suffered as many losses as Bergamo Photos and voices from there evoke a portrait of despair This is the bleak heart of the world’s deadliest coronavirus outbreak And in Italy the most deaths are in the Bergamo area so many that the local paper is given over to death notices Once known as a quiet and wealthy province Bergamo is now a place where Red Cross workers go door to door exhausting and infecting doctors and nurses the army has been called to take them from warehouses for cremation people can leave their homes only for food and medicines and work The factories and shops and schools are closed There is no more chatting on the corners or in the coffee bars While the world’s attention now shifts to its own centers of contagion Like the air raid sirens of the Second World War they are the ambulance sirens that many survivors of this war will remember coming to collect the parents and grandparents and spouses sit back on the corners of now empty beds becoming fainter as the ambulances drive away toward hospitals crammed with coronavirus patients all you hear in Bergamo is sirens,” said Michela Travelli was driving a food delivery truck all around northern Italy he developed a fever and flu-like symptoms who told him to take a common Italian fever reducer and rest up Italian officials had sent mixed messages about the virus a province of about a million people in the region of Lombardy traveled 30 miles to Milan to watch a Champions League soccer game between Atalanta and the Spanish team Valencia this week called the match “a strong accelerator of contagion.”) Mr Travelli and his wife didn’t take the threat of the virus seriously back then “because it wasn’t sold as a grave thing.” he felt unbearable pressure on his chest and suffered dry heaves His temperature spiked and his family called an ambulance An ambulance crew found her father with low levels of oxygen in his blood but following the advice of Bergamo’s hospitals and the hospitals are like the trenches of a war,’” Ms Red Cross workers have the dangerous task of entering the homes of people suspected of being infected by coronavirus Claudio Travelli’s wife and daughters waited to see if he would be taken away to a hospital Another day at home led to a night of coughing fits and fever He took more fever suppressant but his temperature climbed to nearly 103 degrees and his skin became yellow Red Cross workers hovered over him on a bed where he lay below a painting of the Virgin Mary at the balconies draped with Italian flags Then the ambulance left and there was nothing to hear “Only the police and the sirens,” his daughter said Travelli away had started early that morning a crew of three Red Cross volunteers met to make sure the ambulance was certified as cleaned and stocked with oxygen the tanks had become an increasingly rare resource They blasted one another in sprays of alcohol disinfectants “We can’t be the untori,” said Nadia Vallati whose day job is working in the city’s tax office She was referring to the infamous “anointers,” suspected in Italian lore of spreading contagion during the 17th century plague Vallati and her colleagues wait for an alarm to sound in their headquarters Indistinguishable from one another in the white medical scrubs pulled over their red uniforms Travelli’s home on March 15 with tanks of oxygen One of the biggest dangers for coronavirus patients is hypoxemia and doctors worry when the number dips below 90 Vallati said she had found coronavirus patients with readings of 50 shallow breaths and use their stomach muscles to pull in air was helped from her bed to be taken to a hospital She was barely conscious when Red Cross workers arrived Oxygen has become an essential treatment for victims whose lungs steadily fail that are procured for them with a doctor’s prescription by family members They watch the nightly reports of Italy’s dead and infected with them on their couches whom he could not hold for fear of contagion Vallati found herself in the bedroom of a 90-year-old man She asked his two granddaughters if he had had any contact with anyone who had the coronavirus had been taken away on Friday and was in critical condition because “they didn’t have any tears left.” was assisted while his children were kept at a distance to avoid contagion uncertain whether they would see him again On another recent tour in the highly infected Valle Seriana under the Alps Her husband of many decades asked to kiss her goodbye because the risk of contagion was too high As the man watched the crew take his wife away Vallati saw him go into another room and close the door behind him While those suspected of infection are taken to hospitals Bergamo officials first detected the coronavirus at the Pesenti Fenaroli di Alzano Lombardo hospital People carried it out of the hospital and into the city Young people passed it to their parents and grandparents It spread around bingo halls and over coffee cups has talked about how infections have ravaged his town and nearly broken one of Europe’s wealthiest and most sophisticated health care systems Doctors estimate that 70,000 people in the province have the virus Bergamo has had to send 400 bodies to other provinces and regions and countries because there is no room for them there The virus has so devoured the area of Bergamo Red Cross workers disinfect to try to avoid spreading the virus This weekend, a group of doctors from one Bergamo hospital wrote in a medical journal associated with The New England Journal of Medicine that “we are learning that hospitals might be the main Covid-19 carriers” and “as they are rapidly populated by infected patients, facilitating transmission to uninfected patients.” Ambulances and their personnel get infected, they said, but perhaps show no symptoms, and spread the virus further. As a result, the doctors urged home care and mobile clinics to avoid bringing people to the hospital unless absolutely necessary. But Ms. Vallati said they had no choice with the gravest cases. The authors of the paper work at Bergamo’s Papa Giovanni XXIII, where Ms. Vallati’s crew have taken many of the sick. Dr. Ivano Riva, an anesthesiologist there, said the hospital was still admitting up to 60 new coronavirus patients a day. They are tested for the virus he said, but at this point the clinical evidence — the coughs, the low oxygen levels, the fevers — is a better indicator, especially since 30 percent of the tests produced false negatives. The hospital had 500 coronavirus patients, who occupied all 90 I.C.U. beds. About a month ago, the hospital had seven such beds. Some patients wear transparent plastic helmets filled with oxygen to help them breathe. The most critical cases are anesthetized and intubated. Since intensive care units have been expanded, ventilators and respirators are in demand. Oxygen flows everywhere through Lombardy’s hospitals now, and workers are constantly pushing carts of tanks around the corridors. A tanker truck filled with oxygen is parked outside. Patients are jammed next to supply closets and in hallways. Dr. Riva said 26 of his hospital’s 101 medical staff members were out of work with the virus. “It’s a situation that no one has ever seen, I don’t think in any other part of the world,” he said. If people don’t stay at home, he said, “the system will fail.” His colleagues wrote in the paper that intensive care unit beds were reserved for coronavirus patients with “a reasonable chance to survive.” Older patients, they said, “are not being resuscitated and die alone.” Mr. Travelli ended up at the nearby Humanitas Gavazzeni hospital, where, after a false negative, he tested positive for the virus. He is still alive. “Papi, you were lucky because you found a bed — now you have to fight, fight, fight,” his daughter Michela told him in a telephone call, their last before he was fitted with a helmet to ease his breathing. “He was scared,” she said. “He thought he was dying.” In the meantime, Ms. Travelli said she had been quarantined and had lost her sense of taste for food, a frequent complaint among people without symptoms, but who have had close contact with the virus. I.C.U. wards require specialized nurses, who are themselves getting infected, adding to staffing strains. Coronavirus patients occupy all 90 I.C.U. beds. Doctors turn many patients onto their stomachs to relieve pressure on their lungs. So many people are dying so quickly, the hospital mortuaries and funeral workers cannot keep up. “We take the dead from the morning till night, one after the other, constantly,” said Vanda Piccioli, who runs one of the last funeral homes to remain open. Others have closed as a result of sick funeral directors, some in intensive care. “Usually we honor the dead. Now it’s like a war and we collect the victims.” Ms. Piccioli said one member of her staff had died of the virus on Sunday. She considered closing but decided they had a responsibility to keep going, despite what she said was constant terror of infection and emotional trauma. “You are a sponge and you take the pain of everybody,” she said. She said her staff moved 60 infected bodies daily, from Papa Giovanni and Alzano hospitals, from clinics, from nursing homes and apartments. “It’s hard for us to get masks and gloves,” she said. “We are a category in the shadows.” Ms. Piccioli said that in the beginning, they sought to get the personal effects of the dead, kept in red plastic bags, back to their loved ones. A tin of cookies. A mug. Pajamas. Slippers. But now they simply don’t have time. Funeral parlor employees wore protective gear as they picked up coffins at the mortuary of the hospital, source of the outbreak. In the hospital mortuaries, coffins back up in empty rooms. The red plastic bags, filled with personal effects, mark coronavirus victims. Still, the calls to the Red Cross crew do not stop. On March 19, Ms. Vallati and her crew entered the apartment of Maddalena Peracchi, 74, in Gazzaniga. She had run out of oxygen. Her daughter Cinzia Cagnoni, 43, who lives in the apartment downstairs, had placed an order for a new tank that would arrive on Monday, but the Red Cross volunteers told her she wouldn’t hold out that long. “We were a little agitated because we knew that this could be the last time we saw each other,” Ms. Cagnoni said. “It’s like sending someone to die alone.” She and her sister and her father put on a brave face under their masks, she said. “You can do it,’’ they told her mother, she said. “We will wait for you, there are still so many things we need to do with you. Fight back.” The volunteers brought Ms. Peracchi down to the ambulance. One of her daughters urged her stunned grandchildren to bid farewell with louder voices. “I thought a thousand things,’’ Ms. Cagnoni said. “Don’t abandon me. God help us. God save my mother.” The ambulance doors closed. The sirens sounded, as they do “all the hours of the day,” Ms. Cagnoni said. The crew drove to Pesenti Fenaroli di Alzano Lombardo, where Ms. Peracchi was found to have the coronavirus and pneumonia on both sides of her lungs. On Thursday night, her daughter said she was “holding on by a thread.” Maddalena Peracchi’s family consulted with the Red Cross team. Ms. Cagnoni got as close as she could to her mother’s face and told her she could get through this. Ms. Peracchi is a woman of deep Catholic faith, said her daughter, who spiked a temperature herself the night the ambulance took her mother away and has remained quarantined since. It pained her mother, she said, that if it came to it, “we cannot have a funeral.” To contain the virus, all religious and civil celebrations are banned in Italy. That includes funerals. Bergamo’s cemetery is locked shut. A chilling backlog of coffins waits in a traffic jam for the crematorium inside the cemetery’s church. Officials have banned changing the clothes of the dead and require that people be buried or cremated in the pajamas or medical gowns they perish in. Corpses need to be wrapped in an extra bag or cloaked in a disinfecting cloth. The lids of coffins, which usually cannot be closed without a formal death certificate, now can be, though they still have to wait to be sealed. Bodies often linger in homes for days, as stairs and stuffy rooms become especially dangerous. “We are trying to avoid it,” the funeral director, Ms. Piccioli, said of home visits. Nursing homes were much easier because you could arrive with five or six coffins to be filled and loaded directly into the vans. “I know it’s terrible to say,” she said. Through a network of local priests, she helps arrange quick prayers, rather than proper funerals, for the dead and the families who are not quarantined. That was the case for Teresina Gregis, who was interred at the Alzano Lombardo cemetery on March 21 after she died at home. Ambulance workers had told her family that there was no room in the hospitals. Teresina Gregis’s family found one of the last three available burial recesses. She died without being tested for coronavirus and had pre-existing heart and respiratory problems. Only a small group could mourn, given the lockdown restrictions. “All the beds are full,” they told the family, according to her daughter-in-law, Romina Mologni, 34. Since she was 75, she said, “they gave priority to others who were younger.” In her last weeks at home, her family struggled to find tanks of oxygen, driving all over the province as she sat facing her garden and the pinwheels she adored. When she died, all the flower shops were closed because of the lockdown. Ms. Mologni instead brought to the cemetery one of the pinwheels her own daughter had given her grandmother. “She liked that one.” Photo editing by David Furst and Gaia Tripoli. Design and development by Rebecca Lieberman and Matt Ruby. Obituary from L’Eco di Bergamo, March 13, 2020. The country’s experience shows that steps to isolate the coronavirus and limit people’s movement need to be put in place early, with absolute clarity, then strictly enforced. As morgues are inundated, coffins pile up and mourners grieve in isolation: ‘‘This is the bitterest part.’’ In less than three weeks, the virus has overloaded hospitals in northern Italy, offering a glimpse of what countries face if they cannot slow the contagion. One individual and one team event are slated to take place from 19th to 21st January with the individual race on Saturday marking the final qualifying opportunity for many riders looking to earn Olympic quota spots as well as to make their Olympic teams as the official international Olympic qualifier period for the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Games comes to an end on 21st January. In addition, the race for the crystal globe will also hit the half-time mark with the women's competition providing a thrilling battle of three for the crown. Five-time World Champion Lindsey Jacobellis (USA) is currently in the lead with 3,380 points but the 32-year-old has lost the momentum in the last events after placing second in the season's opener and adding back-to-back wins in the second and third race of the winter. As the Stratton, VT resident finished tenth and eighth in the last two competitions her main pursuers Chloe Trespeuch (FRA; 3,300) and Michela Moioli (ITA; 3,230) were able to catch up in the World Cup rankings and are now breathing down her neck. With two wins in a row prior to the turn of the year, it's especially the Italian racer from Alzano Lombardo Jacobellis has to have an eye on. In the men's event, current leader Alex Pullin (AUS; 3,026) is still having quite a comfortable lead on 2014 Olympic Champion Pierre Vaultier (FRA; 2,520) although the reigning World Champion from France has finally started rolling snatching his season's first podium as runner-up in the last World Cup event in Italy. Austria's top gun Alessandro Haemmerle (2,120) is also still within reach while the rest of the field is already quite behind in the race for the title. But as racing in heats of four like in Erzurum is always unpredictable one should never count out athletes like Adam Lambert (AUS; 1,690), Omar Visintin (ITA; 1,680), Mick Dierdorff (USA; 1,654), Jarryd Hughes (AUS; 1,564) and Emanuel Perathoner (ITA; 1,502) as all five are not only currently ranked fourth to eighth, respectively but also have had one podium finish this season already. Qualifiers for the individual race of the Erzurum World Cup stop are slated for Friday 19th January with the finals following on Saturday at 10:30 (8:30 CET). The team event is scheduled for Sunday at 11:30 (9:30 CET). A detailed programme is available . onlineFeb 10, 2024•61 kBDownloadLive timing links for both, qualifiers and finals, can be found here. Live TV information will be constantly updated here Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker A woman between the ages of 30 and 35 found lifeless in the riverbed a dramatic event shook the community of Alzano Lombardo was discovered in the bed of the Serio River when some passers-by noticed the body and immediately contacted the competent authorities The Carabinieri of Bergamo intervened on site together with the medical emergency vehicles and the fire brigade to manage the situation and start the investigations Law enforcement is currently working to identify the victim and understand the circumstances that led to this tragic discovery nor the dynamics of the events that led to her death Investigators are examining every possible lead The community is in a state of shock and authorities are urging anyone with useful information to come forward The discovery has sparked a strong reaction among residents of Alzano Lombardo many of whom said they were deeply affected by the news Security in the area has been a growing concern and this event has reignited the debate on how to improve surveillance and public safety Local authorities have vowed to do everything they can to ensure that justice is done and the truth comes out the community is rallying around the victim's family hoping that the investigations can bring answers and clarity to this tragic story Notizie.it is a newspaper registered with the Court of Milan n.68 on 01/03/2018 Impara come descrivere lo scopo dell'immagine (si apre in una nuova scheda) Lascia vuoto se l'immagine è puramente decorativa