Inter’s San Siro stadium was the subject of a copyright claim rejected by the Italian government this week, according to a report in today’s newspapers.
Corriere della Sera revealed that the architects behind the Giuseppe Meazza’s third tier had asked the culture ministry (MiBACT) to grant copyright protection due to its intrinsic artistic value, as per Italian design law.
Enrico Hoffer and Giancarlo Ragazzi, along with engineer Leo Finzi, submitted the request to MiBACT’s General Directorate for Contemporary Creativity, but their appeal was unsuccessful.
Ministry technicians concluded that the tier in question, with the large towers that support the roof of the stadium, was a key part of the San Siro’s structure, thereby constituting ‘a solution to a technological and functional problem’ and not ‘an authentically creative and original project’.
The third tier was said to lack the necessary architectural and qualitative characteristics to be granted the protection requested.
San Siro tenants Inter and AC Milan may not be at San Siro for much longer with the clubs in the process of working on a new stadium project worth a reported €1.2 billion.
