The Saint John XXIII church in Bergamo was awarded during the Surface Design Show, that took place in London at the Business Design Centre on 10th-12th February 2015. The Surface Design Awards is an annual contest that awards the most innovative and interesting architectural surfaces both in the United Kingdom and worldwide.
The church won in its category Public Building Surface and it was also rewarded with the Supreme Award, the most prestigious recognition of the contest. It was specifically awarded the building interior, designed by Studio Traversi+Traversi (Italy) in collaboration with the French architect Aymeric Zublena. This space contains the art work Giardino mediterraneo / Mediterranean garden by the Italian artist Stefano Arienti: he used the graphic-concrete® technique to “engrave” on the white concrete walls a thick vegetation made of bushes, shrubs and trees. “I have immediately proposed a garden, the vegetation – said Arienti – because church is a place of meditation and the garden helps, it offers a sensation of serenity, of intimacy”.
For further details here is the link of the contest.