(Kent Wang– flickr/creative commons license) Boeri Studio designed the Vertical Forest in Milano, Italy, completed in 2014. Two residential towers rise 80m and 112m. Shrubberies fill platforms of a variety of size to give the image of a forest. This …
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(WordRidden– flickr/creative commons license) The Stefano Rotondo was built in 470 A.D. in Rome Italy, and consecrated under Pope Simplicius to St. Stephen the martyr. It is Rome’s most characteristic example of central type cathedrals. The Rotunda is 80m long …
John Guerrini, Mario Ramanoas and Ernesto Padula designed the Palace of Italian Civilization in Rome, completed in 1953. It was fascist Mussilini’s centerpiece for the EUR complex for business and residential development in a modernized Rome, though it was completed …
Ancient Rome pushed engineering to great heights with the innovations of new technologies. They introduced unprecedented cities, culture, and design. These innovations were lost from the world for over a thousand years when Rome fell. But they were rediscovered, and …
Austrian architect Carl Junker designed an estate for Austrian Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian at the Gulf of Trieste in northern Italy. The Archduke had chosen the rocky outcropping after taking shelter there from a storm. The castle was designed in 1856 …
Founded: 126 AD Architect: Unknown Patron: Marcus Aggripa, Emperor Hadrian Style: Roman (Hadrian era) Location: Campus Martius, Rome The Pantheon united all the gods in one location, and elevated Rome to a heavenly world. Sunlight and proportion were carefully crafted …
(star5112– flickr/creative commons license) The Gruppo Toscano (Tuscan Group), including Giovanni Michelucci and Italo Gamberini, designed the Florence train station. Though these architects were Futurists, the railway station is decidedly Fascist, with a floor-plan inspired by a bundle of sticks, …
Giuseppe Mengoni designed the Vittorio Emanuele II Galleria in Milano, Italy, completed in 1877. Two glass arcades intersect in a crucifix form, with a spectacular glazed dome at the intersection. The galleria stretches 640 feet from The Duomo to the …
(Antonella Profeta– flickr/creative commons license) Zaha Hadid Architects designed the MAXXI Museo Nazionale delle Arti del XXI Secolo in Rome, Italy, completed in 2009. Intertwining streams of lines flow through horizontal and vertical spaces, bringing together a variety of buildings. …
(teldridge+keldridge– flickr/creative commons license) Richard Meier designed the Museo dell’Ara Pacis Augustae at the Piazza Augusto Imperatore in Rome, completed in 2006. It replaces Mussolini’s 1938 protective structure designed by Vittorio Ballio Morpurgo for the sacrificial altar built in the …