1956/58 Pier Luigi Nervi (1891/1979) and Annibale Vitellozzi (1902/90) for basketball and
lifting weights tournaments of the 1960 Rome Olympics
It was
built on the site of the old Rondinella Stadium of S.S. Lazio and of the
Tennis Club Parioli
The
original capacity of about 5,000 spectators was reduced to about 3,500 in 2011
after renovations
Now it
hosts the home games of the volleyball team M. Roma Volley and of the
basketball team Pallacanestro Virtus Roma
“Pier Luigi
Nervi is one of the greatest structural architects of the twentieth century.
His extraordinary success in combining the art and the science of building
produced some of contemporary architecture’s finest works. Together with other
engineers who had a natural inclination to synthesise static and spatial ideas
(above all, Eduardo Torroja), Nervi contributed, in the middle decades of the
last century, to a break with the formal concepts of rationalism. His
constructions based, like those of Torroja, on bold technical-structural
solutions achieved an extraordinary elegance and have become icons of a new kind
of architecture which enjoy world-wide admiration and esteem. His creations,
scattered across Italy, Europe, America and Australia, made those years a
glorious period for Italian architecture” (Mario Alberto Chiorino - Pier Luigi
Nervi Project Web Site - pierluiginervi.org)
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