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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.
Perhaps the best example of irony in postmodern buildings is Charles Moore's Piazza d'Italia (1978). Moore quotes (architecturally) elements of Italian Renaissance and Roman Antiquity. However, he does so with a twist. The irony comes when it is noted that the pillars are covered with steel.
A piazza (Italian pronunciation:) is a city square in Italy, Malta, along the Dalmatian coast and in surrounding regions. Possibly influenced by the centrality of the Forum (Roman) to ancient Mediterranean culture, the piazze of Italy are central to most towns and cities.
This was one of the most fruitful and creative periods in Italian architecture, when several masterpieces such as the Leaning Tower of Pisa in Piazza dei Miracoli and the Basilica of Sant'Ambrogio in Milan were built. The style was called "Roman"-esque because of its usage of the Roman arches, stained glass windows, and also its curved columns ...
But a lot of churches only wanted to give the appearance of those materials, so they would paint wood to appear as a marble column, for example. Some of the dramatic design elements of this period also included, large domes, cupolas, and double-hipped roofs. Baroque Architecture continued to be popular until the 18th century.
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 ...
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.
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;