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More than three years after the L'Aquila earthquake levelled the city's auditorium, Renzo Piano has built a new flat-pack-style venue.
The building, donated by another Italian city, Trento, and inaugurated in October, is made entirely out of wood (1,165 cubic metres in total) and is prefabricated: its components arrived already cut to specifications and were easily assembled (so to speak) on site.
The firm in charge of construction, Log Engineering, assembled it using 800,000 nails, 100,000 screws and 10,000 brackets. That's a few more than you'd use to build an IKEA bookcase, but the principle remains the same: unpack the wood and bolt it together.
We're pretty sure they followed all the instructions.
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