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Essential Architecture- Turin Palazzo del Lavoro |
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architect |
Pier Luigi Nervi |
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location |
Turin, Italy |
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date |
1959 to 1961 |
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style |
International Style |
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construction |
concrete, steel, reinforced curtain wall |
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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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| www.essential-architecture.com | |