Uaddan Hotel and Casino, Tripoli
Florestano Di Fausto’s 1935 hotel-casino on the Tripoli waterfront, with its 500-seat theatre and white domes: the “Waldorf Astoria of Tripoli”, restored…
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Luigi De Marchi, architect, is the editor and publisher of Cultural Heritage Online. He founded the archive in 1998 as beniculturalionline.it and has published it without interruption since.
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Published on beniculturalionline.it, the Italian archive of this publication, online since 1998. They are being brought into Cultural Heritage Online.
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Tripoli International Fair (Fiera di Tripoli)
Created by the Italian government in 1927 as the showcase of colonial Libya, the Tripoli International Fair is the oldest trade fair in Africa, still running on its walled grounds on Omar al-Mukhtar Road.
Gondar: the Italian-Era New Centre (1936–1941)
The modernist piazza district Italian planners built at Gondar in 1936–41 to Gherardo Bosio’s plan, beside the castles of Fasil Ghebbi. The last Italian stronghold in East Africa fell here in November 1941.
Kallithea Springs (Terme di Calitea), Rhodes
Pietro Lombardi’s 1929 thermal complex at Kallithea Bay, Rhodes: Moorish arches, pebble-mosaic floors and a domed rotunda over springs used since…
The Former Italian Concession of Tianjin (Tientsin)
Italy’s only possession in Asia: a 46-hectare quarter of Liberty villas on the Hai river, held 1901-1947. Restored by the Tianjin municipality in 2005-2008, it is today the Italian Style Town — the largest ensemble of Italian architecture in Asia.
An Italian Quarter in China: the Tianjin Concession, 1901-1947
The least known of Italy’s territories was in northern China: the Tianjin concession, 458,000 square metres of Liberty villas on the Hai river, held from the Boxer Protocol of 1901 to 1947 — and restored by the Chinese city in 2005-2008 as the Italian Style Town. Final piece in the overseas territories series.
Italian-Era Albania: the Tirana Axis, from Brasini’s Plan to Bosio’s Square
Never formally a colony, Albania holds the rare case of an Italian interwar plan still serving as a capital’s heart: the Tirana axis drawn by Brasini in 1925, built by Di Fausto at Skanderbeg Square and completed by Bosio in 1939-41 — adopted, not erased, by every regime since. Sixth in the overseas territories series.
Mother Teresa Square and the former Casa del Fascio, Tirana
The monumental square Gherardo Bosio built in 1939-41 at the head of Tirana’s boulevard as Piazza del Littorio: its Casa del Fascio is today the Polytechnic University, its companions the Rectorate and the Academy of Arts — the civic heart of the Albanian capital on an Italian plan.
Mogadishu Cathedral (1928) — in ruins
The Norman-Gothic cathedral of Italian Mogadishu, designed by Antonio Vandone on the model of Cefalu and inaugurated on 1 March 1928 — once the largest cathedral in East Africa. Heavily damaged in the Somali civil war, it stands today as a ruin.
Italian Somalia: Mogadishu, the Shebelle Company Towns and a Vanishing Record
The most Italian-built capital of Africa and the least legible today: Mogadishu’s 1928 cathedral now in ruins, the Duke of the Abruzzi’s SAIS company town on the Shebelle, the Genale plantations and their documented labour coercion. Fifth in the overseas territories series.