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Since the 50s several architectural and urban works have
focused on the fair district. Halls 21, 22, 25, 26, 31, 32 (19641965 architects Leonardo Benevolo, Tommaso Giuro Longo
and Carlo Melograni) make up the historic core of the Fair and
are characterised by their metal trussed structure, covering
the space to create generous, functional areas. The exterior
beams recall geometric designs inspired by Constructivism.
In the late 60s the Council of Bologna appointed Japanese
architect Kenzo Tange to carry out an ambitious plan to
develop the city towards the north, to prepare Bologna for the
most modern urban research. The Fair District is the only part
of Tange’s plan that was actually completed. The architectural
tower-like style is suited to managerial use, as it determines
the type-form balance in the relationship between space
needed and space provided. The facades entrust their entire
expressive strength to concrete, resulting in a strong contrast
with the porphyry paving of the square and with the exteriors
in crystal and glass of the connecting buildings.
The “l’Esprit Nouveau” Hall (Le Corbusier, redesign architects
Josè Oubrerie and Giuliano Gresleri) originally created by Le
Corbusier in 1925 for the Parisian exhibition, was reproduced
in Bologna’s fair district, to meet with the contemporary
architecture of the site. It is made up of two parts: an L-shaped
cell, prototype of the residential unit called “Immeubles
Villas” and a cylindrical body that can house projects and
exhibitions.
Piazza della Costituzione also houses the headquarters of
the former GAM (Gallery of Modern Art - 1975) designed by
architect and painter Leone Pancaldi, the design is rational yet
with modular and open internal spaces.
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The Manifattura di Arti, Sperimentazione e Tecnologia, or Factory of
Arts, Experimentation and Technology, is located on the outskirts of
the city in an area that has been strongly marked by industrial activity.
The MAST project was conceived as a formula for integration between
business, the local area and the surrounding community. A relationship
that places the multipurpose centre at its core - designed by Studio
Labics in Rome, with clean geometric lines that offer the complex a
light appearance, aided by remarkable elements in glass and steel –
with its rich offering of social and cultural services (exhibition space
and academy dedicated to technological innovation).
Fair District. Photo Ivano Lollo
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the same time, an expression of purity, knowledge and awareness.
Its educational functionality is guaranteed by careful division of
the interior spaces, as its floor-plan develops to accommodate
its function. Externally, the considerable size adapts to its urban
setting thanks to the primary use of horizontal lines, interrupted at
the entrance by the abrupt verticality of the red brick tower, which
is reminiscent of local tradition.
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1. The Old town center
At the very heart of the city, Via Rizzoli is dominated by several imposing
modern palazzos that sometimes mar the original appearance of the
area. Worthy of note, however, at number 16 stands Casa Commerciale
Barilli (1906-07 architect Leonida Bertolazzi) one of Bologna’s very
first department stores and an excellent example of an Art Nouveau
building with clear references to the Vienna Secession in its decor
and wrought iron railings. At number 23/d of Via Altabella, a store,
Gavina (1960 architect Carlo Scarpa) assails the ancient city with its
modernity: the exterior façade, with its linear composition, is clad with
a huge concrete slab, punctuated by large, round windows.
In the old town centre (Via Vascelli, Piazza di Porta Sant’Isaia, Viale
Gozzadini) there are several important works by Bologna’s own
architect Giuseppe Vaccaro, created for the “Cooperativa Mutilati e
Invalidi di Guerra”, an association for those mutilated and disabled
during the War.
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library. In this district history and creativity merge and act in perfect
synergy, to create an international model of urban regeneration.
3.The University District
In the 70s the centre of the city was involved in an intense programme
to restore and preserve its historic mediaeval fabric and there are
now some outstanding examples of Contemporary Architecture
linked to university life. In Porta San Donato the Institute and Museum
of Mineralogy (1903 architects Pasquale Penza and Flavio Bastiani),
with its obtuse-angled floor-plan, leads into the old city of studies
and interacts with the more recent Maths Department (1960-65
architect Giovanni Michelucci) a large building that is quite modern
yet reveals as its inspiration the characteristic wooden structure of
Bologna’s porticoes.
Piazza Scaravilli houses the complex of the new Faculty of Business
and Economics (1955 architect Luigi Vignali), a functional building
that is structured with porticoes and inserted into the traditional
historical environment with balance. The corner that connects the
square to Via Belle Arti is entirely taken up by the Library of the Faculty
of Business and Economics (1963-73 architect Enzo Zacchiroli) and
by the Institute of Statistics, two buildings that are closely linked by
the expressive language of bare concrete, combined with copper
cladding and wooden frames. Along Via Belmeloro stands the new
headquarters of the Johns Hopkins University (1956-60 architect
Enzo Zacchiroli) a building with no reference to the old, but with
a free and simple courageous interpretation that is in sharply in
contrast with harmonisation in a historical context.
4.Via Marconi
Cinema Lumière. Photo Ivano Lollo
Since 2000 an intense project of urban regeneration, entrusted to
architect Aldo Rossi, has involved the current Manifattura delle Arti, or
Factory of Arts. The works have affected all the buildings and spaces
that now make up the new Citadel of Art and Culture: the former
Manifattura Tabacchi, tobacco factory (Via Riva di Reno 72), with its
Art Nouveau façade, no longer houses industrial plants but instead
accommodates the headquarters of the prestigious Film Archives
and the digital restoration workshop. The 11 Settembre 2001 Park
is a public area that is still bordered by the old walls of the former
manufacturing plants. The Castellaccio district is used for university
and public residences. The former Mulino Tambroni mill is now the
University’s Department of Media Sciences and the old Forno del Pane,
or bakery, is currently the headquarters of MamBo, Bologna’s Modern
Art Museum. Cavaticcio park, created when the canal overlooked by
the old port was reopened and the bridge that marked the boundary
between two waterways reproduced, is enhanced by several pieces
of contemporary art. Nowadays the former Salara, or salt store, is the
headquarters of the LGBT community and cultural centre. The former
Macello, or abattoir, houses the Cinema Lumière and the Renzo Renzi
dedicated to the cycle of Gas; the so-called Palazzo Faccetta Nera (1936
architect Francesco Santini) with its very close attention to detail in the
unusual decoration of concentric diamond shapes; the imposing Palazzo
Lancia (1936-37 architect Paolo Graziani) with its interesting tower on the
corner of the crossroads with Via Riva di Reno. On the right-hand side,
at number 67/2, stands the noteworthy Casa del Contadino, or farmer’s
house, (1940 built by the National Fascist Farmers’ Guild), with original
reliefs by Farpi Vignoli, dedicated to the figure of the Farmer, and the
Meeting Hall, decorated by painter Galileo Chini, which is partially visible.
5.Via dei Mille and Via Irnerio
Zanichelli Headquarters. Photo Ivano Lollo
From the quadrilateral shape of Piazza dei Martiri, with its central
fountain, inaugurated in 1933, we proceed along Via dei Mille where,
on the left-hand side, stands the old headquarters of ENPAS, the
national welfare association for civil servants, (designed in 1956,
inaugurated in 1963, architect Saverio Muratori) which was created
from a critical and modern reworking of the Bologna’s traditional style
with portico and overhang. A slight detour along Via Capo di Lucca
makes it possible to visit the controversial former Centrale dei Telefoni
di Stato, or Telephone Exchange (1968-74 architect Enzo Zacchiroli)
a modern technological building which is seemingly isolated from
the historical fabric, yet is in complete harmony with the area’s
industrial past. Then we encounter the spectacular Headquarters of
the Zanichelli publishing house (1938 architect Luigi Veronesi) with its
square shape and marble and granite cladding.
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Palazzo Faccetta Nera. Photo Ivano Lollo
In the nineteen thirties (1932-1936) the fascist administration completed
the modern thoroughfare, initially named Via Roma, which was developed
on the left-hand side with several buildings that reflected the modernist
formalism of the time. Starting from the south and proceeding towards the
railway station we encounter: the monumental concave facade of Palazzo
del Gas on the corner of Via delle Lame (1935-36, architects Alberto
Legnani and Luciano Petrucci) with its famous bas relief sculptured frieze
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The project, by architect Giuseppe Vaccaro was approved by
Mussolini in person, who recognised its validity and compliance
with the standards of “new Italian architecture”. Inaugurated on
28 October 1935 (anniversary of the March on Rome) the new
headquarters of the School of Engineers symbolizes the desire for
renewal in the culture of construction. Vaccaro uses a mature and
up-to-date language to express the cutting-edge issues of the
Modern Movement by creating a building that is functional yet, at