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| Essential Architecture- Turin Palazzo del Lavoro | |
architect | Pier Luigi Nervi |
location | Turin, Italy |
date | 1959 to 1961 |
style | International Style |
construction | concrete, steel, reinforced curtain wall |
type | Exhibition hall |
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| "The Palace of Labour designed and built by Nervi and his son Antonio for the Turin exhibition of 1961 was the result of a competition held in 1959. The building—containing 85,000 square feet of exhibition space—had to be capable of conversion to a technical school at the end of the exhibition. It was erected in less than eighteen months. Like Mies van der Rohe's buildings, there is a subtle fusion of structure and space in Nervi's buildings. But whereas Mies searched for free internal space, Nervi's aesthetic is dependent on an energetic exhibition of the structural parts of a building. The Palace of Labour was no exception... the simple 525 feet square shape was divided into sixteen structurally separate steel roofed compartments each supported on 65-foot-high concrete stems. The external walls, entirely clad in glass, wrapped round the perimeter of the building and incorporated large 70-foot-high vertical mullions." —Dennis Sharp. Twentieth Century Architecture: a Visual History. p245. | |
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