A stark landscape in old Naples: the Centro Direzionale, the business center designed by Japanese architect Kenzō Tange in the 1980s, is a stark platform flanked by skyscrapers. Concrete everywhere. The Naples Palace of Justice comprises a low, brutalist-style building and three other towers. One side of one of the skyscrapers is painted from top to bottom with portraits, a small attempt to humanize the place. Across the road is Poggioreale prison, known as the Camorra prison, one of the most complex penitentiary centers in the country. Among all these buildings, a few months ago, stood a structure by architect Benedetta Tagliabue: the Centro Direzionale metro station, which stands as an act of rebellion against its surroundings.

The verb "to cure" has the dual meaning of "to care for" and "to heal." Architecture and art are not medicine, but they can contribute to the well-being of sick people, as can be seen in Barcelona in the exhibition Mortals+ of the Fundació Suñol and in the exhibition of the Enric Miralles Foundation Architectures of healing: designing spaces of care (Pasaje de la Paz, 10 bis). One of the protagonists of the second one is the Kálida San Pablo centerInspired by Maggie's Cancer Foundation homes around the world, the project also includes a dozen designs for a potential Kálida center on the grounds of Vall d'Hebron Hospital, which architect Benedetta Tagliabue presented as an exercise for a special course she taught at Yale University in the spring.

A whole world in a water jug. The designer of this year's Argentona water jug ​​is architect Benedetta Tagliabue, and she has incorporated a host of references, from her own family to a tribute to working women and caregivers. The water jug ​​features a string of details that recall the delicacy of the ceilings of Josep Maria Jujol's La Pedrera, filled with mottos and symbols, and the bottle that the same architect designed for the former Casa de Familia in Barcelona. I'm also reminded of the architect Enric Miralles, who was her husband and partner at the head of the EMBT studio. Domènech says. As for the recognition of the women who carry water in vases and water jugs, it is found in the shape of the water jug ​​itself, the result of abstracting a photograph of a woman with a jug on her head. Tagliabue says. "With this water jug, I wanted to remember the world of women and the carrying of water, which was an incredible job," Marquina says.