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  2. Piazza d'Italia (New Orleans) - Wikipedia

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    Piazza d'Italia by Charles Moore (with Perez Architects), New Orleans. 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 ...

  3. Charles Moore (architect) - Wikipedia

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    Piazza d'Italia, New Orleans. While at Yale Moore wrote a useful residential design book: The Place of Houses. [12] Clients and designers loved its easy going style and beautiful drawings, but especially its commitment to "placemaking." With Donlyn Lyndon, Moore also founded the journal Places in Berkeley to expound ideas about the genius loci.

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    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 ...

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  7. Palazzo Donini - Wikipedia

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    The architecture with a sober compositional order is scanned by two orders of ledges and three of windows. On the noble floor curved gables alternate with triangular ones in travertine. The palace is adorned with 2 large portals, one opens on Corso Vannucci, the other on Piazza Italia. Both present 2 columns in travertine surmounted by a balcony.

  8. Italian architecture - Wikipedia

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    Italy is known for its considerable architectural achievements, [3] such as the construction of aqueducts, temples and similar structures during ancient Rome, the founding of the Renaissance architectural movement in the late-14th to 16th century, and being the homeland of Palladianism, a style of construction which inspired movements such as ...

  9. Palazzo style architecture - Wikipedia

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    Italian palazzi, as against villas which were set in the countryside, were part of the architecture of cities, being built as town houses, the ground floor often serving as commercial premises. Early palazzi exist from the Romanesque and Gothic periods, but the definitive style dates from a period beginning in the 15th century, when many noble ...