Olbia, Town Hall

The Town Hall is actually the reuse of a villa designed by the engineer Bruno Cipelli for the Colonna family, who also commissioned Villa Clorinda.
Built around 1932, the building has a rectangular plan that on the short side has an entrance porch surmounted by a balcony surrounded by a balustrade on which a French door with two arches opens. Above the overhanging frame supported by shelves, the date in Roman numerals is visible.
Along all the other elevations, pilasters are repeated that embrace the two floors, framing windows with round or lowered arches, partially completed with balconies that reflect the characteristics of the main one.
The rich decoration is made of industrially manufactured concrete and mixes eclectic motifs with some Liberty touches, especially in the vertical elements of the final frame.

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 by
F. Masala, Architecture from the Unification of Italy to the end of the 1900s. Nuoro, Ilisso, 2001, sheet 15.