Architecture nominee

The Stadtcasino Basel dates to 1824, when it first opened, but its current facilities come from later: the 1876 Musiksaal, the Hans Huber Hall from 1905 and the Casino completed in 1939.
In 2012 the famous archistars duo Herzog & de Meuron were commissioned to restore and extend the two pieces in the same neo-Baroque architectural tradition of the 19th-century original designed by Johann Jakob Stehlin.
The new Musiksaal, home to the Basel Symphony Orchestra and a Swiss landmark, reopened in 2020 but it was closed due to the Covid pandemic immediately after. From that moment, it has become one of the artistic icon closed off to the public delight because of the Covid.
The restored building and the concerts have come back to a regular activities in the Summer 2021 basically still unknown in its beauty by the public.

Francesca Pompei, graduated with honour in Philosophy, is a photographer focused on arts and architectural images, member of the board of National Association of Professional Photographers-TAU Visual from 2014 to 2020, artist of the Giornata del Contemporaneo- Italian Contemporary Art 2021 and included among the Exceptional Women In Architecture Photography.
Her work is in the permanent collection of the Fondazione Dario Mellone in Milan and it is online on LensCulture, blink, Dodho, Fondo Malerba per la Fotografia, L’Oeil de la photographie, Saatchi Art, Aesthetica Magazine, All About Photo, OpenEye, Glamour Affair, Artribune, Il Giornale dell’Architettura, Exibart, Marika Magazine, Iconic Artist Magazine, Aesthetics of Photography, Perimetro, Artdoc Photography Magazine, Better Photography, Designboom, CNN Arabic, The Times and The Guardian. Among the artists selected to celebrate Italy’s Republic Day 2020 and 2021, she is winner of prestigious competitions such as The Art of Building and the Architecture MasterPrize 2022 and 2023. Her work is included in the Annuario d'Arte Italiana 2022 promoted by Quadriennale di Roma and published by Treccani. She is a member of PhotoVogue and she is Photography Tutor and Photography Subject Expert at the faculty of Architecture of Sapienza University in Rome.