When the city of Naples embarked on a landmark infrastructure project to commission a series of new stations for its metropolitan train line in 2004, it used the triptych ‘art, architecture and archaeology’ as its motto and leading driving force. The Barcelona-based architecture studio of Benedetta Tagliabue, EMBT, undertook the design of the new subway and train station Centro Direzionale di Napoli, which was completed this autumn. (Tagliabue’s was one of several projects in this city-wide scheme, alongside works by Foster + Partners, Massimiliano Fuksas, Alvaro Siza, Domenique Perault, and Karim Rashid.)
