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The building is located on an area expropriated from the city orphanage.
After several events also concerning the difficulty of finding a place appropriate to the importance of the institution, the Palazzo delle Poste e Telegrafi was designed in 1922 by the engineer Bruno Cipelli and completed in 1928.
It has a main front that extends in length, highlighting the highest central part and vertically marked by pilasters that contain windows with lintels and two or three lights separated by columns. The two side wings are much simpler and lower and rest on a smooth fake ashlar plinth that separates tripartite arched windows.
Some formal solutions are interesting, such as the vertical strips under the central windows, the slender columns that separate the openings in the middle floor, and some elements of the decorative apparatus with Medusa heads that recall recurring motifs in Art Deco.
History of studies
A review of 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
“Palazzo delle Poste di Sassari”, in Italian Architecture, 1929, 10;
[L.] Valentino, “Architecture in the Province of Sassari”, in Bulletin of the Regional Fascist Fine Arts Syndicate of Sardinia, 1932, 2, p. 13;
E. Cenami-P. Simonetti, “Architecture and City”, in Sassari between Liberty and Déco, Cinisello Balsamo, Amilcare Pizzi, 1987, p. 47;
F. Masala, Architecture from the Unification of Italy to the end of the 20th century. Nuoro, Ilisso, 2001, sheet 63.
Content type:
Civil architecture
Province: Sassari
Common: Sassari
Macro Territorial Area: Northern Sardinia
POSTAL CODE: 07100
Address: via Brigata Sassari, 11
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