LarsToday's Piazza Caduti per la Liberta in <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/Ravenna?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Ravenna</a> was not designed in the spirit of freedom in the 1920s, but as a project of Italian fascism, as a new urban center and forum. The photograph shows the Nuova Casa del Littorio, the headquarters of the fascist party. Or rather, what is left of it. The building by architect Emiliano Mongioví originally included a large tower, which was blown up by the German Wehrmacht in 1944 so as not to give the advancing Allies a strategic vantage point.<br>
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As is so often the case in fascist architecture, this building also combines white natural stone with brick. An arcade of pillars connects the dynamically curved façade with a cubic block. Where the curve meets the block, the narrow tower originally rose into the sky.<br>
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On the right is the building of the INA, the Istituto Nazionale delle Assicurazioni. A project by architect Alessandro Forlati and engineer Giuseppe Machin from 1938, the monumental façade is less rationalistic than the Nuova Casa del Littorio and is structured by organizing symmetries and classic round arches.<br>
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