On Friday 24th June 2011 in Sala degli Stucchi at Palazzo Trissino in Vicenza, the winners of the eighth edition of Dedalo Minosse Award have been named in front of a large audience of over 250 people.
The official ceremony has been anticipated by a press conference that took place the morning of the 24th at Palazzo Barbaran Da Porto, Headquarters of CISA, Andrea Palladio International Centre of Architecture Studies, and by the round table organized by Laboratorio Morseletto Thursday 23rd June in the scenic setting of Cengelle quarry in Grancona (VI).

Superurban, Sustainable Urban Rigeneration
Exhibition at Ragione Palace in Padova dedicated to a topical theme: the sustainable urban rigeneration. Prominent was the narrative of the most innovative experiences of redevelopment and urban renewal in a sustainable key of several cities around the world. The event took place in the setting of the V Biennale of Architecture “Barbara Cappochin”.
Laboratorio Morseletto organized the convivial inaugural event at the Cengelle quarry in Grancona (VI).

Laboratorio Morseletto has created a Vicenza stone model of the Church of Santo Volto in Turin, designed by Mario Botta, shown in the exhibition hosted at Palazzo Valmarana Braga in Vicenza.
The project of the Swiss architect, was the result of an urban regeneration plan aiming to reintegrate the brownfield sites abandoned in the seventies, it received on the occasion the tenth anniversary’s Honorary Award.

Laboratorio Morseletto has realized several Vicenza stone models for the personal exhibition of Zaha Hadid: a maxi-installation of hundreds multimedial expositive blocks in the prestigious headquarters of the Ragione Palace in Padova. The event took place in the field of IV Biennale of Architecture “Barbara Cappochin”.
In addition, Laboratorio has organized the convivial inaugural event at Cengelle quarry in Grancona (VI).

Hosted in the beautiful roman church of San Silvestro in Vicenza, and organized by the cultural association Abacoarchitettura, the show was dedicated to the two young architects from Madrid Luis Mansilla and Emilio Tuñón, it has been an occasion to realize an original exhibition staging, with the support of Laboratorio Morseletto.

For the occasion it has been interpreted the austere church space, offering the visitors the possibility of an in-depth reading of the operas of two Spanish architects built between 1995 and 2008.

Interesting exhibition mode: the projects were in fact contained in some travel bags which symbolized the idea of an

As part of the “Fuorisalone” event, an exhibition of the operas by David Chipperfield was held within the Milan studio of the British Architect. Some models were made in Vicenza stone by Laboratorio Morseletto.

Exhibition dedicated to the most recent works by the Portuguese architect Gonçalo Byrne organized in the beautiful Romanesque church of San Silvestro in Vicenza by the cultural association Abacoarchitettura. With the support of Laboratorio Morseletto the famous Portuguese architect, author of important projects realized in his country, but also in Italy and in many other European countries, designed an original set-up for the exhibition of models, images and videos relative to the 12 most representative works of his cultural and professional background.

Laboratorio Morseletto hosted the event in Cengelle quarry in Grancona (VI) to celebrate the 80th anniversary of Casabella, the prestigious architecture magazine founded in 1928, in Milan by Guido Marangoni and directed, among others, by Giuseppe Pagano, Edoardo Persico and Ernesto Nathan Rogers. An historical event with more than six hundred guests who could participate to a double conference cured by the architects Álvaro Siza and Eduardo Souto de Moura.

Inspired by the book of Mario Rigoni Stern “Il sergente nella Neve”, the play by Marco Paolini was recorded by six cameras in the picturesque setting of Arcari quarry in Zovencedo (VI) owned by the Laboratorio Morseletto. On October 30th 2008 the event was broadcasted live, on La7 TV channel, without commercial interruptions.

To celebrate five hundred years since the birth of Andrea Palladio, Laboratorio Morseletto realized in ​​Vicenza stone a sculpture by Elio Armano, a “Palladian fragment” inspired by the motif of Villa Pojana facade. The work was placed in Padua in Borgo della Paglia, where Palladio was born and spent his youth, before he became the most celebrated architect of the Renaissance.