FLAMINIUM STADIUM

STADIO FLAMINIO
Viale Maresciallo Pilsudski/Viale Tiziano/Via Dorando Petri

 1957/59 Pier Luigi Nervi (1891/1979) and his son Antonio Nervi (1925/79) on the area of the destroyed Stadio Nazionale (National Stadium), later known as Stadio del Partito Nazionale Fascista (Stadium of the National Fascist Party) and finally Stadio Torino (Turin Stadium), which had been designed by Piacentini, Pardo and Guazzaroni in 1911

24,000 places of which 8,000 are covered

The shelter of the grandstand juts of about 14 m (46 feet)
Here were held many pop and rock concerts including those of Michael Jackson (two dates in 1988 and one in 1992) and U2 in 1987

St. GASPAR DEL BUFALO

S. GASPARE DEL BUFALO

Via Rocca di Papa 137 - Quartiere Appio

1975/79 Pier Luigi Nervi (1891/1979) and his son Antonio Nervi (1925/79) with Mario Desideri and Francesco Vacchini

Nervi wanted to create a spectacular, huge tent in masonry

The church was consecrated in 1981

Decorative stained-glass windows by Luciano Vinardi

“Towards the end of his career, Pier Luigi Nervi could appear almost as a tutelary deity of Italian architecture, the interpreter of a way of building that evoked a comparison with an ancient, almost timeless tradition” (Filippo De Pieri - Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani Treccani)