Il Girasole apartment building, Rome

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Il Girasole apartment building in Rome is a landmark mid-20th-century residential complex celebrated for its innovative modernist design by Italian architect Luigi Moretti.

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instanceOf 20th-century architecture
apartment building
architectural work
approximateCompletion 1950s
architect Luigi Moretti NERFINISHED
architecturalStyle Italian modernism
Modernism
associatedArchitect Luigi Moretti NERFINISHED
associatedWith postwar Italian modernism
buildingType apartment block
category Buildings and structures in Rome
Modernist architecture in Italy
country Italy
designer Luigi Moretti NERFINISHED
discipline architecture
hasAlternativeName Il Girasole NERFINISHED
hasFeature careful orientation to sunlight
complex volumetric composition
deep loggias
projecting balconies
sculptural façade articulation
hasFunction housing
hasMaterial glass
plaster finishes
reinforced concrete
hasNameMeaning “Il Girasole” means “The Sunflower” in Italian NERFINISHED
heritage landmark of Italian modern architecture
influencedBy European modernist architecture
rationalist tendencies in Italian architecture
languageOfName Italian
locatedIn Lungotevere Flaminio area of Rome NERFINISHED
Rome
locatedInNeighborhood Flaminio district of Rome NERFINISHED
notableFor asymmetrical façade
dynamic façade composition
experimentation with light and shadow
innovative modernist design
integration of structure and form
use of projecting balconies
partOf postwar reconstruction era in Rome
significance important reference in studies of postwar Italian architecture
key work in Luigi Moretti’s career
timePeriod mid-20th century
use residential

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