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It was designed in 1934 by Giuseppe Boni, San Luca academic and vice secretary of the National Fascist Architects Trade Union. Benito Mussolini strongly wanted this building: he was present at the first stone ceremony and at the inauguration of the building (on November 4th 1936). The Naval College was originally built to give a [...]
The O.N.B. (Opera Nazionale Balilla) was designed in 1936 by Paolo Benadusi. It has a perimeter scheme and is composed by three sectors joined together: this solution allows to leave a central area for open air activities. The complex has large dormitories able to accommodate up to 300 children. The architecture design shows a rational approach, [...]
The building is in the Civic Center, the area that the designers of the City Plan of the 1916, wanted to look like a Roman Forum. It was built between 1924 and 1926 and is composed of three sectors organized around a quadrangular courtyard with a well. In this work the author, Vincenzo Fasolo, combines medieval [...]
Ostia has always been considered by the experts the perfect place for heliotherapy and in particular for child tuberculosis treatment, thanks to the extraordinary qualities of the air and sea. For all these reasons the first building which was built was a Summer child health colony: designed by Marcello Piacentini on the western part of [...]
This building has a peculiar shape because it is a linking element between two corner lots between the urban sector of Via del Mare and Corso Duca di Genova, that is the road parallel to the seafront street and arrives right to the ancient seaplane base. The post office was designed in 1934 by the [...]
