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The construction is part of a vast project of buildings built immediately before the Second World War in the military port area along the current Colombo Avenue.
The building is a small copy of the Royal School of Air War in Rome (now the Historical Office of the General Staff of the Air Force), built to a design by engineer Roberto Marino, keeping up with the best examples of rationalist architecture in the country.
The headquarters of the Royal Navy Command (1937-39) is developed according to principles of symmetry very similar to those of other barracks, widely present in Cagliari even on Viale Poetto. The central part is covered in travertine while the side wings, progressively lower, are made with an exposed brick curtain, with double courses alternately protruding, inside which are placed the openings surrounded by frames. Compared to the original design, the windows of the central body are not at full height, but divided by levels. The main front is preceded by a short staircase.
The privileged view is of course that from the sea thanks also to the open space in front, useful for parades and ceremonies, now visible from the Ichnusa pier.
Bibliography by
G. Loddo, Cagliari. Architecture from 1900 to 1945, Cagliari, Coedisar, 1999, p. 41;
F. Masala, Architecture from the Unification of Italy to the End of the 20th Century. Nuoro, Ilisso, 2001, sheet 79.
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Civil architecture
Province: Cagliari
Common: Cagliari
Macro Territorial Area: South Sardinia
POSTAL CODE: 09125
Address: piazza Marinai d'Italia, 1
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Year : 1914
Author : Alfonso, Luigi <omonimi non identificati>
Year : 2017
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