Stadio Porta Elisa, Lucca
A multi-use stadium built in Lucca during the 1930s, originally designed for 12,000 spectators. Named after a gate in the city’s historic walls, it remains the home ground of A.S. Lucchese-Libertas.
Architecture
Palazzo dell’Arengario, Milan, 1936–1956
A Novecento-style palace on Milan’s Piazza del Duomo, designed by Portaluppi, Muzio, Magistretti and Griffini. Today it houses the Museo del Novecento.
Palazzo della Farnesina, Rome (1937)
Designed by Enrico Del Debbio, Arnaldo Foschini, and Vittorio Ballio Morpurgo, this building in the Foro Italico complex now houses the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
I.N.A. Garage, Venice, by Eugenio Miozzi (1931–34)
A Rationalist automotive garage designed by engineer Eugenio Miozzi for the National Insurance Institute, built at Piazzale Roma in Venice during the early 1930s.
Cinecittà Entrance by Peressutti and Roncoroni, Rome 1936–37
A photograph of the entrance to Cinecittà, Rome’s vast film studio complex, designed by architect Gino Peressutti and engineer Carlo Roncoroni and completed in 1937.
Teatro Francesco Paolo Tosti, Ortona (1929–30)
The Teatro Francesco Paolo Tosti in Ortona, Abruzzo, is the municipal theatre designed by engineer Tommaso Pincione and completed in 1929–30. Positioned on the Passeggiata Orientale overlooking the Adriatic Sea, it reflects the city’s early twentieth-century civic ambitions.
Royal School of Engineering, Pisa by Pera and Severini
The Royal School of Engineering in Pisa, designed by Luigi Pera and Federigo Severini and completed in 1937, now serves as the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Pisa.
Torre Littoria (Grattacielo Reale Mutua), Turin, 1933–34
The Torre Littoria, now known as Grattacielo Reale Mutua, is a residential tower in central Turin designed by Armando Melis de Villa and engineers Giovanni Bernocco and Giorgio Scanagatta. Completed in 1934, it was Europe’s tallest residential building for eighteen years.
Teatro Solvay, Rosignano Marittimo
A 1925 theatre built by the Solvay chemical company in Rosignano Marittimo, Tuscany, as part of a comprehensive welfare programme for factory workers and their families.