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18 Apartment building

Marcello Nizzoli and Gian Mario Olivieri (1956)

This complex completes the residential building cycle of the Castellamonte district. The building consists of three blocks with different heights and a single façade on the West side. On the other hand, elevations are highly articulated for the diagonal cuts of the balconies and for the supremacy of vertical and horizontal components.

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2018 Ivrea Industrial City of the XXth century

The Industrial City of Ivrea was built in the years between 1930 and 1960, out of the desire of Adriano Olivetti and according to a design that was meant to be an alternative to national and international experiences carried out during the XXthcentury.The site is composed by a group of architectures associatedwith the industrial and socio-cultural project of Adriano Olivetti. It consists of an array of buildings designed by the most important Italian architects and …

Factory Canteen and Entertainment Centre

Ignazio Gardella (1953 to 1961) with Roberto Guiducci and UPECC.

Located in the backsideof the Officine Complex and close to the former Convent of San Bernardino, the hexagonal building is the outcome of the experimentation of the late production of F.L.Wright.

It has become an architectural icon thanks to its symbolic and social value, but also due to its concept of industrial city.

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Former Carpentry

Ottavio Cascio (1955)

The interest of this building resides in the colored brise-soleil (sun breaker) of the façade, designed by the chief of the Technical Department of Olivetti, who used the blades of the sun breaker in various architectural proposals for factories.

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Former Sertec building

Ezio Sgrelli (1968 - 2007)

Designed as the center for the engineering of civil and industrial building services led by Antonio Migliasso, the building is particularly significant forhaving been one of the very few Brutalist-origin projects in Italy.

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Four apartment houses

Marcello Nizzoli e Gian Mario Olivieri (1950)

These houses close the residential area at the West sideand are anexample of the continuous study on housing promoted in the City, which led to a great variety of accommodations, turning the city into a laboratory for ideas and proposals.

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Houses for directors

Marcello Nizzoli and Gian Mario Olivieri (1948 - 1952)

Six single-family rectangular dwellings, apparently simple in their composition with peculiar elements that characterize them in a special and modern way.

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Houses for large families

Luigi Figini and Gino Pollini (1940)

These houses resulted from a long study process on the typology of houses for workers. They were promoted bytwo architects from Milan in various projects and studies since 1934 with the aim of shaping Ivrea, as the industrial city. These buildings, like the ICO Officine, are considerably well-known among professionals and intellectuals, that debate about modern architecture before and after War.

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New Olivetti Office Building

Gino Valle (1985 - 1988)

The building comprisesfive square-base buildings, with six floors, covered with visible bricks. Each component is rotated with respect to the previous one, thus

creating a curvilinear path. This building is the last one of this area, and it represents the evolution of Ivrea intoa city of services to the industry in the 1960s and 1980s, characterized by a strong corporate identity policy promoted by the Company.

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Nursery

Luigi Figini and Gino Pollini (1939 - 1941)

The Nursery was built during the War, and limitations regarding the use of iron during that period were decisive in determining choices of building materials and the embracement of a single-storey masonry bearing structure with diorite pillars. Classrooms overlooked an interior patio. Furnishingsare still visible, and they were designed by the TechnicalDepartment of the factory,orchestrated, at the time, by Gian Antonio …