VIADUCT OF CORSO FRANCIA

VIADOTTO DI CORSO FRANCIA
Corso Francia

1958/60 Vittorio Cafiero (1901/81), Adalberto Libera (1903/63), Amedeo Luccichenti (1907/63), Vincenzo Monaco (1911/69) and Luigi Moretti (1907/73)

Structures by Pier Luigi Nervi (1891/1979) and his son Antonio Nervi

“The international area in which attention for Nervi’s work grew faster was the United States of America. If the image of Nervi emerging from American journalism was that of a great architect-builder heir to a centuries-old tradition, whose method of work seemed to owe much to intuition and to artisan-like skills, in those same years, in Italy, two major events - the Olympics in Rome in 1960 and the celebration of the hundredth anniversary of national unity in Turin in 1961 - led to the contrary the name of Nervi in the foreground as a synonym for a constructive and technological modernization worth of representing the rapid transformation of the country” (Filippo De Pieri - Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani Treccani)

FLYOVER OF CORSO FRANCIA
1958/59 by Luigi Moretti

TOWERS OF FINANCE

TORRI DELLE FINANZE
Viale Europa - Demolite

1957/62 Cesare Ligini (1913/88), who designed as well the also demolished Velodrome of EUR, with the collaboration of Vittorio Cafiero (1901/81), Robert Venturi and Guido Marinucci for the Ministry of Finance

Also known as TORRI LIGINI. Three 60-storey towers and two low-rise buildings
They were demolished in 2010 to make way for the project by Renzo Piano that will provides housing and services for 1,600 people

DECIMA DISTRICT

QUARTIERE DECIMA

Via di Decima/Via Cristoforo Colombo/G.R.A./Via del Mare

1960/66 Luigi Moretti (1907/73) coordinated the project for the Istituto Nazionale per le Case degli Impiegati dello Stato (INICIS) (National Institute for the Houses of State Employees) 

It was built to meet the growing demand for housing on the part of civil servants who gravitated around the EUR district, still expanding at the time

Buildings by Vittorio Cafiero (1901/81), Ignazio Guidi (1904/78), Adalberto Libera (1903/63) and Luigi Moretti

Other architects who worked on the project: Agrelli, Di Tullio, La Valle, Quadarella, Reggiani, Rinaldi, Rulli, Sebasti, Valle e Veroi

808 apartments for a population of about 7,500 people

Reorganization of the central square in 1999 by Aldo Aymonino (1953)

“So it was partly put together again the team a few years before had given a good performance in the realization of the Olympic Village; and the new district evokes some of the main characters of the Olympic Village: the prevalence of row houses with 4-5 floors on stilts, greenery as connective tissue, unification of coating materials (brick facing) and architectural solutions. Only the plan of the buildings is driven by a separate will, to determine complex visual perspectives, enveloping spaces and constantly changing. Hence the use of sinuous lines and open polygonal schemes, typical of those years in the formal research of Luigi Moretti” (Saverio- www.urbanistica.unipr.it)

FAO PALACE

PALAZZO DELLA FAO

Viale delle Terme di Caracalla

1938 Vittorio Cafiero (1901/81) e Mario Ridolfi (1904/84) con Ettore Rossi (1894/1968), Giulio Rinaldi, Wolfgang Frankl (1907/94), Alberto Legnani e Armando Sabatini

Designed as the Ministry of Italian Africa but completed and extended for the new use only in the years 1950/52 by Vittorio Cafiero himself

Headquarters of the FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS

The building is leased to the UN by the Italian government for the symbolic price of $ 1 per year

Near Piazza di Porta Capena, in front of the building, in 1937 the stele of Axum was placed, an obelisk of the fourth century AD moved here from Ethiopia by the order office Mussolini. In 2005 the obelisk was removed from the square and returned to the Government of Ethiopia

CARABINIERI'S HEADQUARTERS

COMANDO DEI CARABINIERI

Via Slataper/angolo Viale Romania

1936 Vittorio Cafiero (1901/81)

Former "Comando della Milizia Volontaria Sicurezza Nazionale" (Headquarters of the Voluntary Militia for National Security) during the fascist regime

In the big CORNER TOWER IN RUSTICATED MASONRY there is the "Monument to the Dead Soldiers"

Mosaics "Four Evangelists" and "Fascist virtues" by Angelo Canevari (1901/55)