I have dedicated the last three posts to the Trieste-based ITS#TEN competition, so let's wrap up the thread today with an architectural posts that briefly looks at two inspiring buildings in Trieste.
The first one is Palazzo Aedes, a building with a very interesting history. Plans to build a new palazzo on this site were indeed refused four times between 1924 and 1925. In 1926 a new project launched by the Aedes company signed by architect Arduino Berlam but designed by Carlo Polli was submitted. The main project was based on a very ambitious idea, creating an “American building”, that is a sort of skyscraper, on this site.
The technical office of the Trieste city hall refused the project since the building was apparently too tall for this location. A commission asked to modify the plans, changing the top of the building, reinforcing the pillars on the ground floor and submitting ideas for the polychrome decoration indicating also which materials should have been employed.
A building licence was released in 1927, works on the palazzo were briefly stopped once again in the same year, but the municipality issued a certificate stating the building was habitable in 1928. Dubbed the “red skyscraper”, the building - a sort of mix of Art Deco aesthetics and Italian rationalist architecture - features very inspiring features also from a fashion point of view, in particular the facade, complex rooftop and decorative motifs.
Other very inspiring decorations can be found on the facade of Palazzo Gopcevich (built in 1850 and designed by architect Giovanni Andrea Berlam for the Serbian shipowner Spiridione Gopcevich) where the Civico Museo Teatrale Carlo Schmidl is currently based. While the Theatre Museum is worth visiting for its mementos, musical instruments (among them also mechanical instruments) and costumes documenting the history of theatre and opera in Trieste, the external part of the building features inspiring zigzag patterns, statues and friezes.
Knitwear and knitting patterns came to my mind while looking at the decorative elements of these buildings, but also at some of their details and features, in particular the metal railings on the rooftops of Palazzo Aedes.
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Posted by: seo melbourne | August 05, 2011 at 11:17 AM