Called La Pista 500, it will offer another activity you don’t normally associate with a park or gallery: test-driving electric cars.
This juxtaposition of art, nature and manufacturing may seem unlikely, but the garden is not located on just any post-industrial site. In a city synonymous with Fiat, the project is a makeover of the specially constructed 4.2 acre rooftop track that caps what was once Europe’s largest car factory.
The Lingotto stopped producing cars in the 1980s, after which its lower floors were converted into an auditorium, conference center and mall by Renzo Piano.
The Pinacoteca Agnelli gallery, which manages the roof garden and has populated it with art installations, took over the factory’s top floor (but not its roof) in 2002. The palazzina in front of the factory that once housed Fiat’s management was sold earlier this year by Stellantis NV, the conglomerate that now owns the car brand.
(source:Bloomberg)
