The British American Tobacco is the second largest cigarette company in the world.

Il viaggio di Roland Ultra (“The Travels of Roland Ultra”) began with the desire to encounter new people and places, and experience a fresh start.

Images from the former tobacco factory of Bologna. A photo documentation by Giovanni Hänninen commissioned by Istituto Beni Culturali – Regione Emilia Romagna.

Images from the building site of Trilogia Navile, a project for residential buildings located inside the former fruit and vegetable market of Bologna.

In 2017 Giovanni Hänninen was called by Giovanna Calvenzi of Studio Basilico to continue Gabriele Basilico’s work on the three European cities with a circular structure: Moscow, Milan, Madrid.

Designed in the 1970s by Kenzo Tange and Urtec, this neighbourhood should have been a new model of city surrounded by greenery.

Spaces of metamorphosis that with ease “jump” from the new to the old, from the historical to the added.

Images form the Spina 3 neighbourhood, built in Turin on the area once occupied by the Fiat ironworks and the plants of Michelin, Savigliano and Paracchi.

In San Donato, as elsewhere, the continuity of collective space is an interructed project.

MOSE, acronym for Modulo sperimentale elettromeccanico (applied electromechanical module), is a system of mobile barriers meant to protect the city of Venice and its lagoon from the “acqua alta” phenomenon.

Bicocca in Milan, Island Brygge in Copenhagen, Hafen City in Hamburg: three major urban transformation projects.