Relief on Palazzo Carige on Via Leonida Bissolat in Rome, Italy. December 3, 2024
The large frieze about a third of the way above the ground, shows very significant details for the combination of industrial intentions, so to speak, between the capital and the Piedmontese city headquarters of Fiat (in fact the building had this name, while now it belongs to the Carige Group). In fact, there are the she-wolf and the bull (the animal symbols of the two localities), mixed with wheels, propellers, tracks, various gears typical of mechanical industrial activity. The structure, schematically covered with travertine, is a huge parallelepiped which, apart from the decoration mentioned above, is very rational. The architect is Marcello Piacentini, archistar between the twenties and sixties of the last century, and he built it between 1947 and 1948, when the area was considered 'peripheral'.
Relief on Palazzo Carige on Via Leonida Bissolat in Rome, Italy. December 3, 2024
The large frieze about a third of the way above the ground, shows very significant details for the combination of industrial intentions, so to speak, between the capital and the Piedmontese city headquarters of Fiat (in fact the building had this name, while now it belongs to the Carige Group). In fact, there are the she-wolf and the bull (the animal symbols of the two localities), mixed with wheels, propellers, tracks, various gears typical of mechanical industrial activity. The structure, schematically covered with travertine, is a huge parallelepiped which, apart from the decoration mentioned above, is very rational. The architect is Marcello Piacentini, archistar between the twenties and sixties of the last century, and he built it between 1947 and 1948, when the area was considered 'peripheral'.