Italian architect Vittorio Gregotti dies of coronavirus at 92
Vittorio Gregotti, the Italian urban planner, writer, and architect behind the Barcelona Olympic Stadium on Sunday, March 15, of the novel coronavirus COVID-19. As the local sources reported, he had developed pneumonia and passed aged 92 away in the San Giuseppe hospital in Milan, where his wife Marina Mazza is also being treated.
The Guardian reports, that Gregotti designed the Marassi stadium in Genoa for the 1990 World Cup in Italy, and the Arcimboldi opera theatre in Milan, a futuristic structure built to allow the season to continue while La Scala was renovated from 2002 to 2004.