In contrast to the colorful, yet bare highways side of Brembo's
Bergamo facility, the office buildings are transparent and integrated
with trees and other landscape to create an oasis apart from
the speeding cars. Reminiscent of Nouvel's earlier Foundation
Cartier in Paris, landscape is treated as a zone between the
building and the greater urban condition. In the former the condition
was the streets of Paris, in the latter the condition is the
roads connecting cities. So in turn the landscape plays a greater
role in the building's design, a commendable offset to the image-oriented
facade of the trademark Brembo-red wall.
