Palazzo delle Poste di Angiolo Mazzoni

A curved brick post office building with columns and a driveway filled with parked cars — Mazzoni’s curved brick post office with its canopy and columns, seen across a parking area with several cars. Photo: Stefano Vigolo, 2010.

Roma · Ostiense · Razionalist post office

A post office building by Angiolo Mazzoni in Rome, photographed in 2010. Its curved brick form and portico mark it as a distinctive example of the architect’s work for the Ministry of Communications.

At a glance

The building stands in Rome, where the contributor’s map link places it in the Ostiense area. The photographs show a post office with a curved brick façade, a projecting roof and a colonnade. Published documents confirm that Angiolo Mazzoni designed post and telegraph offices in Italy, but the precise identity of this Roman example is not established in the sources found.

Key facts

Where: Area of Ostiense, Roma
What: Palace
When: not documented in the sources found
GPS: 41.7321, 12.2777 · Open in Google Maps

History

The photographs carry the inscription UFFICIO POSTALE TELEGRAFI. According to Stefano Vigolo’s notes, the building was designed in 1933 by Angiolo Mazzoni for the Ministry of Communications and inaugurated in 1934. The published documents consulted do not mention this specific Roman building, so those dates remain the contributor’s belief. The documents do record that Angiolo Mazzoni worked as an official architect for the Ministry of Communication and that he designed post offices in several Italian cities.

What you see

The photograph shows a building with a curved brick exterior. A low portico of columns runs along the front, below a wide projecting canopy. Cars are parked in the foreground, and palm trees stand near the building. The inscription UFFICIO POSTALE TELEGRAFI is visible above the entrance area.

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Nearby

Palazzo delle Poste, Ostiense — Adalberto Libera & Mario De Renzi — another Roman post office, also in the Ostiense area
Palazzo delle Poste, Piazza Bologna — Mario Ridolfi — a 1932 rationalist post office in the Nomentano quarter

Gallery

Another view of the curved brick post office with cars parked in front — Frontal view of the post office complex with its projecting curved roof and portico of columns Photo: Stefano Vigolo, 2010.

Wide view of the rounded post office building with palm trees — The rounded brick post office with palm trees, a delivery van and a crosswalk in the foreground Photo: Stefano Vigolo, 2010.

Sources

Edilportale, Palazzi delle Poste, un viaggio tra le cattedrali della ‘comunicazione’: general context on Angiolo Mazzoni as a designer of post office buildings in Italy.
The University of Manchester, Angiolo Mazzoni, Palazzo delle Poste in La Spezia (1930-1933): contextual information on Mazzoni’s role as official architect of the Ministry of Communication.
Stefano Vigolo, photographs and notes to the editorial staff (2026): identification of the subject and the dates 1933 and 1934. Not a published source

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