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Description
Designed by the world famous architect Cesare Bazzani, who registered the final design in 1913, the building was constructed in only two years by the cooperative of Ravenna.
The building is an example of the Art Nouveau style. It has a central courtyard and an 80 meters façade that leads into piazza Unità d’Italia. The architect was able to solve the problem of the damage done to S. Giovanni di Malta church; on the rear side, the building has been perfectly blended architecturally with the ruins of the church, with the addition of a new building, which has a central courtyard that leads into via Placida.
The external decorations, uniform and well–structured, are made of different plasters (as used by the majority of the architectures of that time); in the eastern and southern fronts, on the top of the high base, there is a strip of embossed plaster and another one of simple plaster. Vivacity is given by two different octagonal bodies behind the façades.
The building is an example of the Art Nouveau style. It has a central courtyard and an 80 meters façade that leads into piazza Unità d’Italia. The architect was able to solve the problem of the damage done to S. Giovanni di Malta church; on the rear side, the building has been perfectly blended architecturally with the ruins of the church, with the addition of a new building, which has a central courtyard that leads into via Placida.
The external decorations, uniform and well–structured, are made of different plasters (as used by the majority of the architectures of that time); in the eastern and southern fronts, on the top of the high base, there is a strip of embossed plaster and another one of simple plaster. Vivacity is given by two different octagonal bodies behind the façades.