+Matteo Valerio Falessi I actually did. It's a bit of a strange place. Everything is gigantic and (in the weekend) the place is empty. Sadly they are fixing the colloseum so you cannot enter, would have love to go inside that building. How about you?
+Sander Timmer It is an amazing place in my opinion. Sometimes they open these buildings to visitors just for 2 days. You need to be very lucky in order to visit them from inside!
+Randall Lee Reetz it's the area of Rome built for the World Expo by Mussolini, hence in fascists styling. Wiki writes about this building:
"The Palazzo della Civiltà Italiana was constructed as part of the program of the Esposizione Universale Roma, a large business center and suburban complex, initiated in 1935 by Benito Mussolini for the planned 1942 world exhibition and as a symbol of fascism for the world."
Ok. Yet I really like the building. I doubt very much that the arch facade illicites fascist ideals in people looking at it or working within it. What I like is how it so effortlessly evokes the old while honoring the present. It compresses an evocation of the Roman viaduct supports… is instantly familiar. I wonder how the decreasing size of the arches articulates with the height of each successive floor/ceiling height?
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+Matteo Valerio Falessi I actually did. It's a bit of a strange place. Everything is gigantic and (in the weekend) the place is empty. Sadly they are fixing the colloseum so you cannot enter, would have love to go inside that building. How about you?
+Sander Timmer It is an amazing place in my opinion. Sometimes they open these buildings to visitors just for 2 days. You need to be very lucky in order to visit them from inside!
That's a beautiful building. I don't know what makes it fascist.
+Randall Lee Reetz it's the area of Rome built for the World Expo by Mussolini, hence in fascists styling. Wiki writes about this building:
"The Palazzo della Civiltà Italiana was constructed as part of the program of the Esposizione Universale Roma, a large business center and suburban complex, initiated in 1935 by Benito Mussolini for the planned 1942 world exhibition and as a symbol of fascism for the world."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palazzo_della_Civilt%C3%A0_Italiana
Ok. Yet I really like the building. I doubt very much that the arch facade illicites fascist ideals in people looking at it or working within it. What I like is how it so effortlessly evokes the old while honoring the present. It compresses an evocation of the Roman viaduct supports… is instantly familiar. I wonder how the decreasing size of the arches articulates with the height of each successive floor/ceiling height?