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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. Piazza Italia - Wikipedia

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    Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Piazza Italia or Piazza d'Italia may refer to: Piazza Italia, Naples; Piazza Italia, Reggio Calabria ...

  4. Buildings and architecture of New Orleans - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. 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.

  6. 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.

  7. Italian architecture - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  8. 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 ...

  9. Piazza d'Italia, Sassari - Wikipedia

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    Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikimedia Commons; ... Piazza d'Italia is a city square in Sassari, Italy. [1] Buildings around the square