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The building was erected at the base of the slope occupied by the historic district of Stampace.
The palace was built in 1893-95 on commission by the brothers Antonio and Filippo Vivanet in a crucial area, overlooking the railway station.
The project by the architect Cesare Picchi applies neo-Gothic stylistic elements to the type of multi-storey building that embraces an entire block. The sequence of pointed arcades is the first application of the building regulations of the city of Cagliari, which provided for the sequence of porches along the front of Via Roma on which the building overlooks.
Neo-Gothic architecture thus made its official appearance in Cagliari. The building, with a U-shaped plan spread over three floors, occupied a prominent position along the station-city center axis, and inaugurated the porch structure that Via Roma will assume in the early twentieth century, followed by the new Town Hall. The exposed terracotta coating, used decoratively in the corners of the bodies and in the rings of the pointed arches of the single-light windows and mullioned windows, still shows on the main façade the signs of the stitching with new bricks that occurred after World War II, following the destruction of its central part in the bombing of 1943.
Formerly home to a cinema-theater and a hotel, today the building houses the headquarters of the Student House.
History of studies
A review of the studies can be found in the bibliography relating to the fact sheet in the volume of the “History of Art in Sardinia” on nineteenth-century architecture (2001).
Bibliography by
F. Masala, Architecture from the Unification of Italy to the End of the 20th Century. Nuoro, Ilisso, 2001, sheet 16.
Content type:
Civil architecture
Province: Cagliari
Common: Cagliari
Macro Territorial Area: South Sardinia
POSTAL CODE: 09123
Address: via Roma, 401
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Author : Vivanet, Filippo
Year : 1880
Author : Zorco, Alessandro
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