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The Italian architect Aldo Rossi has designed a number of Palazzo style buildings, including Hotel Il Palazzo in Fukuoka, Japan, (1989) which combines elements of a typical palazzo facade, including projecting cornice, with the intense red found in Japanese traditional architecture, and the green of patinated bronze. [9]
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 ...
A tower was added to the plan by a 1951 project. This was meant to be aligned with the overlooking Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II , situated on the opposite side of the Piazza del Duomo. A private contest was finally organized in 1953, which was won by the Italian architect Luigi Mattioni , who later had to reduce the original height of the ...
After clearing the space previously occupied by alleys and hovels, the city authorities proceeded by endowing the square with new buildings, [10] among which a loggia, modeled after other Italian cities, would be primary in importance. [8] A first loggia structure was erected in 1436, based on the design of the ducal architect Niccolò Lupo.
Piazza San Marco (Italian pronunciation: [ˈpjattsa san ˈmarko]; Venetian: Piasa San Marco), often known in English as St Mark's Square, is the principal public square of Venice, Italy, where it is generally known just as la Piazza ("the Square").
Nearly 40 years ago, Miami-Dade County opened a downtown cultural arts complex. It looked like Italy. Mediterranean flourishes. An open plaza. Eventually the place was home to an art museum, a ...
Floor plan of Palazzo Farnese "The most imposing Italian palace of the 16th century", according to Sir Banister Fletcher, [1] this palazzo was designed by Antonio da Sangallo the Younger, one of Bramante's assistants in the design of St. Peter's and an important Renaissance architect in his own right.
A major twist in the piazza's evolution came about after the Second Italian War of Independence (1859). In 1860, the government of the city proclaimed the intention to radically redesign the piazza and to create a new major avenue to celebrate King Victor Emmanuel II of Italy. Several architectural design competitions followed, whereby the plan ...