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Italian architect of Barcelona stadium dies of virus at 92
ROME, March 15, 2020 (BSS/AFP) – Vittorio Gregotti, an Italian architect
who designed the 1992 Barcelona Summer Olympics stadium, died Sunday at the
age of 92 after catching the novel coronavirus, Italian media said.
Gregotti died of pneumonia after being hospitalised in Milan having
contracted COVID-19, the AGI news agency and the Corriere della Sera
newspaper reported.
He also designed the Arcimboldi Opera Theatre in Milan, a futuristic
structure built to allow the opera season to continue while the La Scala
underwent renovation in 2002-2004.
Paying tribute, fellow Italian architect Stefano Boeri called Gregotti a
“master of international architecture” who “created the story of our
culture”.
“What a great sadness,” he wrote on Facebook.
Gregotti’s wife Mariana Mazza has been hospitalised at the same Milan
hospital, Corriere della Sera said, without providing details on why.
BSS/AFP/SSS/1817 hrs