Cinema Impero is an Art Deco cinema in Asmara, Eritrea, built in 1937 by architect Mario Messina. The largest movie theater constructed in Asmara during Italian colonial rule, it remains structurally sound and operational.
The Palazzo dell’Arte in Milan’s Parco Sempione, designed by Giovanni Muzio between 1931 and 1933, houses the Triennale di Milano museum and its integrated theatre.
A command pavilion designed by Raffaello Fagnoni for the Royal School of Aeronautics in Florence, built 1937–1938. The structure exemplifies Italian Rationalist architecture of the interwar period.
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.
A Novecento-style palace on Milan’s Piazza del Duomo, designed by Portaluppi, Muzio, Magistretti and Griffini. Today it houses the Museo del Novecento.
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.
A Rationalist automotive garage designed by engineer Eugenio Miozzi for the National Insurance Institute, built at Piazzale Roma in Venice during the early 1930s.
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.
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.
