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The Piazza d'Italia is an urban public plaza located behind the American Italian Cultural Center at Lafayette and Commerce Streets in downtown New Orleans, Louisiana. It is controlled by the New Orleans Building Corporation (NOBC), a public benefit corporation wholly owned by the City of New Orleans.
Located within the CBD is one of the world's most famous pieces of postmodern architecture, Charles Willard Moore's Piazza d'Italia. The district has a number of significant historicist buildings. Perhaps the most notable are the Moorish revival Immaculate Conception Church and the Egyptian revival U.S. Custom House.
'Camp' – Piazza d'Italia, New Orleans, US, by Charles Moore (1978–1979) [43] Contradiction (in this case, the mix between monumental columns, bossages and other Classical elements, and curving forms with High-Tech glazing and highly saturated colours) – Neue Staatsgalerie , Stuttgart , Germany, by James Stirling (1984) [ 44 ]
Unveiled in 1978 and designed by post-modern architect Charles Moore and Perez Architects of the city, Piazza D'Italia had a few rough years but bounced back with a restoration with results ...
Italian architects had always preferred forms that were clearly defined and structural elements that expressed their purpose. [12] Many Tuscan Romanesque buildings demonstrate these characteristics, as seen in the Florence Baptistery and Pisa Cathedral. Italy had never fully adopted the Gothic style of architecture.
Arnaldo dell'Ira, Piazza d'Italia, 1934. Other painters who adopted the style included Giorgio Morandi around 1917–1920, [7] Filippo de Pisis, and Mario Sironi. [5] In the 1920s and later, the legacy of Metaphysical painting influenced the work of Felice Casorati, Max Ernst, and others. [5]
Piazza Italia or Piazza d'Italia may refer to: Piazza Italia, Naples; Piazza Italia, Reggio Calabria; Piazza d'Italia, Sassari; Piazza d'Italia, New Orleans;
The architecture of the interior is articulated by the use of pietra serena, a dark, high quality, fine grained sandstone, though in fact the load-bearing structure of the building is its masonry, i.e. it is the walls that support the arches and domes, not the pilasters which are decorative rather than structural. Pazzi Chapel ceiling