The Ponte Mosca Centre born from a partnership between the Provincial Administration of Turin and the Cultural Piemonte Associations Forum. It aims to build a multifunctional centre in the area of ex Institute Aldo Moro, at the junction of Lungo Dora Firenze, Via Aosta, Via Brescia e Corso Giulio Cesare, in front of the bridge built by architect Carlo Bernardo Mosca.
This project is the manifestation of a precise need of the Forum to find an appropriated home where associations can carry out their activities in a coordinated way, with the aid of suitable equipments and spaces. The Forum, set up in 1998, has been joined by around 106 Associations and Cultural Organizations operating in different sectors: visual arts, theatre, cinema, music, historical and social studies, didactics, cultural heritage conservation. The initiative is supported by the neighbourhood that hopes, in this project, for an opportunity of urban and territorial requalification, in the wider planning set up by public and private actors in the area of Porta Palazzo.
The Ponte Mosca Centre is expected to be a building of around 17.500 square metres with an underground parking for 530 cars and a public garden equipped with 8.800 square metres.
It will be able to host the seats of the 60 cultural Associations members of the Forum, rooms for permanent and temporary exhibitions, a multifunctional hall (suitable for theatre, music, cinema and conferences), the historical Library of the Provincial Administration of Turin, the Forum Library, spaces for cultural production, didactics rooms, rehearsal rooms, stores.
Each space is designed to host different activities and functions: the 520 seats hall will be used to realize theatre and cinema productions, concerts, conventions and training activities. Halls for exhibitions will be also transformed in classrooms, the garden and the viewpoint in spaces for reading and shows.
Belonging to the Centre are a guestrooms with around 100 beds, a restaurant, a bar, shops, helping in creating a complete cultural and recreational offer. The Centre will be operating 365 days, on three time bands.

July 1st, expired the term for the Project Financing call, advertised by the Provincial Administration; proposals have been examined and it's been chosen the more suitable project on the base of which it will be announced the call for bits in order to find the enterprise achieving building works.
In the meanwhile started the promotional activity in the area of the future yard (taking up in autumn 2003, and whose end is foreseen in autumn 2005).
The Committee, set up in the 24th May 2001, aims at the realization of the Ponte Mosca Centre. The Chairman is Mrs. Luisella d'Alessandro, Federico Manassero, Erik Balzaretti, Roberto Marucci, Franco Lucà, Franco Quesito, Riccardo Piacentini and Renzo Sicco are members of the board of Administration. The headquarter is at the Italian Foundation for the Photography, via Avogadro 4, Torino.
Web site: www.pontemosca.it
e-mail:centro@pontemosca.it