Young and hip outside L'ex GIL on opening night of art exhibition We lovers of 20 th Century Italian architecture again found ourselves ...
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Showing posts with label Rome architecture. Show all posts
A Failed Underpass in EUR: a Brief History of Over and Under
This underground passageway is shuttered now, and probably has been for years, useful only for collecting trash and attracting graffiti. Th...
Il Fungo: Rome's Mid-Century Modern Architecture
Il Fungo, in the distance, center, from Via Cavalcanti It's always a pleasure to find something new and unexpected in a city we've v...
Ponte Ostiense: Under Construction
Through a hole in the fence. In October, we pulled the scooter off Via Ostiense for a quick look at another of Rome's new bridges. We c...
Fascism and the Reconstruction of Rome
What was the Via dell'Impero, from Piazza Venezia, looking toward the Coliseum. Vehicles were prohibited that day. Via dell'Impero H...
Gio Ponti's Rome Building: the Scuola di Matematica
Ponti's La Pavoni espresso machine, 1948 Architect and designer Gio (pronounced "Joe," as in Gio vanni) Ponti is little known ...
Fuksas' "Cloud": An Architect's Fantasy, Under Construction
A couple of years ago we headed out to EUR, the community south of Rome that was created in the late 1930s and early 1940s (before the war i...
Fire Escapes to Heaven: The Stairs of EUR
You'll have to cut us some slack here, dear reader. We know that all except the most far-out architectural buffs will wonder if we'v...
RST Top 40. #34: a Fascist Era Post Office
Two of Rome's masterpieces of architectural geometry are located within a stone's throw, across the street from each other in via Ma...
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