1931/37 Mario De Renzi (1897/1967) for the Federici firm
It is the largest building for homes of the 1930s with a vertiginous staircase in the courtyard, ducted in glass
442 apartments, 70 shops, a garage and a cinema that has now become a supermarket. About 1,600 people live in this building
The Italian movie director Ettore Scola chose it as a set for his 1977 film "A Special Day" with Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni
"The particularly big dimension of the project is solved with an architecture that in some cases refers (...) to the 'off-scale' theme, thereby repeating a line of research with a vaguely futuristic flavor, already present in the building on Via Andrea Doria" (Piero Ostilio Rossi)
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