Showing posts with label Villa Borghese. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Villa Borghese. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 20, 2017

VILLA BORGHESE CAR PARK

PARCHEGGIO DI VILLA BORGHESE
1966/72 Luigi Moretti (1907/73)
2,000 cars on two floors over 3.6 hectares (9 acres)
Shopping center and multiple exits on Viale del Muro Torto, Via Veneto and for the subway station of Piazza di Spagna
“The relationship between structure and form, that is, between 'real construction' and 'ideal structure', is variously declined by Moretti in his works, real lessons of tectonics in which between the two terms is produced an exact identification as in the structural combination flared pillars-lowered domes of the Villa Borghese car park” (Bruno Reichlin, Annalisa Viati Navone)

Thursday, April 3, 2014

MONUMENT TO IVAN VAZOV

MONUMENTO A IVAN VAZOV
2010 by the Bulgarian sculptor Minekov Velichko (1928)
Ivan Vazov (1850/1921) was a writer and is still considered the "patriarch" of the Bulgarian literature. He strove valiantly for the national cause of Bulgaria
The statue was inaugurated in the presence of both Italian and Bulgarian Presidents of the Council of Ministers

Tuesday, September 17, 2013

ROMANIAN ACADEMY

ACCADEMIA DI ROMANIA
1931/33 Petre Antonescu (1873/1965)
Home of the Academy of Romania, founded in 1922
It plays a mediating role between Romanian universities and other academic and scientific institutions in Rome and in Italy, organizing conferences, seminars and meetings with scholars. Library with about 33,200 books
In the garden "Colossal bronze head of Decebalus" the king of Dacia defeated by Trajan in 106 AD
He is a true Romanian national hero, so much so that on the banks of the Danube, near the town of Orşova, the largest sculpture made in the rock of a mountain in Europe with the face of Decebalus was completed in 2004: it is 40 m (131 feet) high and it took ten years to sculpt it with a cost of over a million dollars

Monday, September 16, 2013

BRITISH ACADEMY

ACCADEMIA BRITANNICA
1911/13 Edwin Landseer Lutyens (1869/1944) one of the greatest British architects
Sole survivor of the exhibition hall of 1911
The British School in Rome (BSR) is a centre for research on the archeology, history, and culture of Italy, and for contemporary art and architecture
It serves the needs of scholars and fine artists from the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth. The BSR is one of the research institutes sponsored by the British Academy, and is one of a group of international academies in Rome