Formerly FACTORY
OF PERONI BEER with an attached ice factory built in the years 1908/22 by Gustavo Giovannoni (1873/1947) and Alfredo Palopoli
It is one
of the few examples of Roman industrial architecture of the beginning of 1900s,
in activity until 1971
“Gustavo
Giovannoni was able to achieve a difficult volumetric and linguistic balance
between the architecture of the surrounding residential building and the
industrial buildings that, it should not be forgotten, didn't have yet, at that
time, well-defined and expressive typological characteristics” (Piero Ostilio
Rossi)
It was
built on three blocks of the area of Villa Capizucchi:
FIRST BLOCK (Via Mantova, off Via Bergamo)
There is
now a shopping center and private offices
SECOND BLOCK (Via Mantova, off Via Alessandria)
There are
now offices and a parking lot
THIRD BLOCK (Via Nizza, Via Cagliari, Via Reggio Emilia)
It was
renovated in 1999 by Antonio Simbolotti, Mauro Panunti and Francesco Stefanori and enlarged by the prestigious French architect Odile Decq (1955) to turn it into the main building of
MACRO, an acronym for MUSEO DI ARTE CONTEMPORANEA DEL COMUNE DI ROMA, the
Museum of Contemporary Art of the City of Rome
Works were
completed in 2010 and the exhibition area is now 4,350 square meters (47,000
square feet)
The museum
also includes a large terrace of 2,500 square meters (27,000 square feet)
The works
of art in MACRO are cyclically exhibited according to themes that make it a
vital and unique museum
The
secondary branch, MACRO
FUTURE, is in the former slaughterhouse in the Testaccio district
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