News for the Guzzi Centennial being posted here. Dates are September 10-12th, 2021.
Story on the ground improvements HERE -- words below.
To note, Greg Lynn is a friend and customer of GuzziTech/GTM.
November 2, 2020 - The Piaggio Group Board of Directors approved the redevelopment project of the Moto Guzzi museum and the entire production area of Mandello. It will be a famous architect to take care of it. Even if there is no other news for now, fans rejoice.
Hello everyone! At the end of September, when I anticipated that Moto Guzzi's 100th birthday would be celebrated in 2021 (read the article), many of you raised the theme of the Mandello museum. It is too neglected, several comments criticized, "it's a shame!" some directly accused. Well, I want to give you some good news: even the president and top management of the Piaggio Group realize that the museum is not up to par. And now the board of directors has approved the redevelopment project.
There are no precise figures or times, but the resolution is a fact: it was decided that the works will begin next year and will cover the entire area of the Mandello Lario plant, from production to the offices and halls of the museum. It is also known that the project was entrusted to Greg Lynn, American architect and designer, member of the United States Artists, awarded the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale in
2008 and many other international awards; and who is also CEO of Piaggio Fast Forward, the team of innovators “which aims to build lightweight mobility platforms that offer innovative solutions for the movement of people and goods”. In short, a beautiful head already involved in the group.
What matters is that, although times are not exactly ideal, those who have the fate of Guzzi in their hands seem determined to invest millions of euros in the prestige of the brand. Even the mayor of Mandello Riccardo Fasoli, on the pages of Corriere della Sera, is delighted with the good news, rumors have been circulating for months and the ratification of the board of directors is the expected turning point. For Mandello it is a panacea, the museum has always attracted Italian and foreign enthusiasts, but above all we understand that such an investment means that the company will remain here, on the lake where it was born a century ago and where the history of motorcycles was made.
I believe, and I am certainly not the only one, that no museum in the world could come close to that of the Moto Guzzi, once it has been rethought and recreated. There are other even older houses - Gilera is from 1919, the first Harley is even from 1903 - but the eagle house has an absolutely unique history. It is enough to mention a symbol such as the famous wind tunnel: here in Mandello technical innovation and creativity have been breathed, the most extraordinary successes in international races have been built before world-wide. Men of enormous talent met on the shore of the Lario, names like Omobono Tenni, Bruno Ruffo or Giulio Cesare Carcano with his incredible Otto cylinders: no other brand has reached this high.
I don't know this Greg Lynn, one of the ten most influential architects in the world for Forbes magazine. But I already envy him. If he has a bit of passion for motorcycles, imagining and designing the Moto Guzzi museum will be a magnificent adventure for him.
Story on the ground improvements HERE -- words below.
To note, Greg Lynn is a friend and customer of GuzziTech/GTM.
November 2, 2020 - The Piaggio Group Board of Directors approved the redevelopment project of the Moto Guzzi museum and the entire production area of Mandello. It will be a famous architect to take care of it. Even if there is no other news for now, fans rejoice.
Hello everyone! At the end of September, when I anticipated that Moto Guzzi's 100th birthday would be celebrated in 2021 (read the article), many of you raised the theme of the Mandello museum. It is too neglected, several comments criticized, "it's a shame!" some directly accused. Well, I want to give you some good news: even the president and top management of the Piaggio Group realize that the museum is not up to par. And now the board of directors has approved the redevelopment project.
There are no precise figures or times, but the resolution is a fact: it was decided that the works will begin next year and will cover the entire area of the Mandello Lario plant, from production to the offices and halls of the museum. It is also known that the project was entrusted to Greg Lynn, American architect and designer, member of the United States Artists, awarded the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale in
2008 and many other international awards; and who is also CEO of Piaggio Fast Forward, the team of innovators “which aims to build lightweight mobility platforms that offer innovative solutions for the movement of people and goods”. In short, a beautiful head already involved in the group.
What matters is that, although times are not exactly ideal, those who have the fate of Guzzi in their hands seem determined to invest millions of euros in the prestige of the brand. Even the mayor of Mandello Riccardo Fasoli, on the pages of Corriere della Sera, is delighted with the good news, rumors have been circulating for months and the ratification of the board of directors is the expected turning point. For Mandello it is a panacea, the museum has always attracted Italian and foreign enthusiasts, but above all we understand that such an investment means that the company will remain here, on the lake where it was born a century ago and where the history of motorcycles was made.
I believe, and I am certainly not the only one, that no museum in the world could come close to that of the Moto Guzzi, once it has been rethought and recreated. There are other even older houses - Gilera is from 1919, the first Harley is even from 1903 - but the eagle house has an absolutely unique history. It is enough to mention a symbol such as the famous wind tunnel: here in Mandello technical innovation and creativity have been breathed, the most extraordinary successes in international races have been built before world-wide. Men of enormous talent met on the shore of the Lario, names like Omobono Tenni, Bruno Ruffo or Giulio Cesare Carcano with his incredible Otto cylinders: no other brand has reached this high.
I don't know this Greg Lynn, one of the ten most influential architects in the world for Forbes magazine. But I already envy him. If he has a bit of passion for motorcycles, imagining and designing the Moto Guzzi museum will be a magnificent adventure for him.