Civic tower of Gibellina
Giuseppe Scandura
The Civic Tower of Gibellina, also known as the Clock Tower, is the centerpiece of the Town Hall Square. It is a work in concrete and iron designed in 1987 by Alessandro Mendini, a famous Milanese architect and designer.
The tower, about twenty meters high, has an irregular truncated cone shape, cut vertically into two parts spaced apart with a visible crack. A large free-form metal wing, polychrome lacquered, crosses and joins the two parts at the top.
The structure was conceived as a musical instrument, like a large sound box, which marks the time five times a day, at 6.00, 8.00, 12.00, 17.00, 20.00. The musical project foresees that for a hundred years the sounds emitted by the tower, which were created from Sicilian folk songs elaborated on the computer, will always be different.
