chiesi group seeks innovative entries for healthcare creation facility

chiesi group plans healthcare innovation regeneration for parma

Chiesi Group invites concepts to reinvigorate and turn its historic via palermo site in Parma, Italy, into a driver for urban regeneration and a landmark of innovation, called Restore to Impact. The architectural competition seeks ideas from global designers to help envision the concept of this new landmark, which will see the city’s Via Palermo transformed into a lively, healthy location.

The Restore to Impact project calls for entries between 1 March and 30 April, 2023 – submit here.

Chiesi, Via Palermo, Parma, 2008

photo by Filippo Gallino

Restore to Impact strategy is based on kindness and connectivity

The Chiesi Group is a leading global pharmaceutical company with more than 80 years of experience. The company’s Restore to Impact project aims to identify innovative, evolutionary, and transversal concepts that will form the basis of the regeneration scheme. Three years after the official opening of the new headquarters, which flanks the already existing Research Centre, Chiesi continues development on the historic pharmaceutical factory, originally launched in 1955. The goal is to create a ‘business playground’ where researchers and innovators can work together while also promoting inclusivity.

Chiesi, Via Palermo, Parma, 1955-59

photo by Armando Moretti

‘Restore to Impact represents a milestone in the company’s history of openness and the permeability to external communities close to the worlds of research and innovation,‘ outlines Andrea Chiesi, Head of Special Projects and Sponsor of the Call for Ideas.

‘The rapid changes we are witnessing in all fields and disciplines today require the interconnection of increasingly specialized professionals who have evolving skills. But they also demand workplaces that are aligned with current notions of cooperation, inclusion, wellbeing, and where research and training are supported by state-of-the-art technologies. It is precisely out of these considerations that the idea of launching an international Call for Ideas took shape. I am confident that this Call for Ideas will allow us to expand our horizons and further solidify our competences.’

Chiesi, Via Palermo, Parma, 1954

photo by Armando Moretti

entries open to global designers from professionals to students

The Call for Ideas is open to professionals and under-30s graduates or those currently in education with expertise in healthcare, workplace architecture, and sustainability. Submissions should interconnect both people and the planet’s health with a strategy based on ‘kindness’ and ‘connectivity’. This on top of considering Chiesi Group’s five Regenerative Actions: Innovate to stay coherent, Restore to preserve the heritage, Take care to treat, Dare for opportunities, and Design to Impact. Three concepts in both the professional and under-30s categories will receive cash prizes of a total prize fund of €66,000 euro, as well as up to five special mentions. The winners and their designs will be announced by 31 May, 2023.

Make sure to submit your Restore to Impact regeneration ideas before 30 April, 2023 – here.