A plain, red-rendered apartment block on the avenue that runs the length of Sant’Elena — one face of the uniform residential quarter the Torres brothers laid out for Venice’s newest island.
At a glance
Set back slightly from Viale Quattro Novembre behind a strip of garden, this three-storey block carries the deep red-ochre render typical of Sant’Elena’s 1920s housing, with round-arched windows and shallow iron balconies repeated across its long facade. It is attributed to the Torres brothers, Duilio and Giuseppe, whose Sant’Elena plan shaped nearly every building on this stretch of the island.
Key facts
- Architects (attributed): Duilio Torres and Giuseppe Torres
- Location: Viale Quattro Novembre, Sant’Elena, Venice
- Context: part of the residential quarter built through the 1920s under Duilio Torres’s 1911 masterplan for the island
- GPS: 45.42816, 12.36040 · Open in Google Maps
History
This block belongs to the residential fabric that filled in Sant’Elena’s Viale Quattro Novembre through the 1920s, once Duilio Torres’s 1911 masterplan had given the reclaimed island its layout of avenues, garden strips and campi. No individual record naming this specific building’s architect or construction year has been located; it is presented here as part of the Torres-led development on the strength of its position and its style, consistent with the neighbouring, better-documented buildings on the same avenue — not as an independently confirmed attribution.
Sources
- Duilio Torres, Wikipedia — en.wikipedia.org: the 1911 Sant’Elena masterplan commission
- Conoscere Venezia, Case dello IACP e di altri enti pubblici a Sant’Elena — conoscerevenezia.it: the general building phases and street pattern of the quarter
- Coordinates cross-checked against OpenStreetMap Nominatim for Viale Quattro Novembre
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See this place and what’s around it →Record researched and written by Carla Szathvary for Cultural Heritage Online, 2026.
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