The fascist architecture still hosting Italy's sporting events

Edit New Statesman 12 Apr 2016
After two days in the Eternal City, the imprint of my footsteps would have drawn a map of Fascist Rome, sidestepping the obligatory classical tour ... The Foro Italico, formerly the Foro Mussolini, was one of the regime’s central architectural projects ... The entanglement of athletic and martial glory was central to fascist ideology....

The top 10 women's watches from Baselworld 2016

Edit The National 11 Apr 2016
The watch world received something of a shock last year. the Swiss reported their first downturn since the blackness that was 2009 ... And sure enough, the watchword at Baselworld (if you'll excuse the pun) was undoubtedly "caution" ... newslide ... Delettrez was apparently inspired by the play of light and shadow in the Palazzo, which was commissioned by Mussolini and is considered one of the most representative examples of Fascist architecture....

7 of the most colossal Nazi structures from Hitler's top architect

Edit Business Insider 21 Mar 2016
Albert Speer's work has come to define fascist architecture ... The style is instantly recognizable. big, imposing, concrete ... ....

Fendi's pair of palazzos indicate grand designs on 21st-century luxury

Edit The Independent 17 Mar 2016
Fashion houses are all keen to see themselves as more than that, these days. Fashion is ephemeral, fickle. How about luxury? Sounds much more impressive ... On the outskirts of Rome, it's also known as the square colosseum, a key piece of Fascist architecture which now houses every facet of Fendi ... Tourists flock there to take pictures ... ....

'Zoolander 2': Film review

Edit CNN 10 Feb 2016
The goodwill of original fans and the fun of playing spot the star (especially in a Hansel orgy) should give the Paramount release an initial boost ... The Hollywood Reporter ... The movie boasts lots of eye-catching locations in the Italian capital — Bieber gets mowed down by the Pantheon; Alexanya's HQ is the Fascist architectural landmark, Palazzo della Civilta; and her hot-ticket Incredi-Ball takes place at the Baths of Caracalla ... ....

Icon of fascist era: Fendi rejects criticism over new HQ in Mussolini propaganda building

Edit South China Morning Post 25 Oct 2015
Paolo Nicoloso, an architectural historian, said the building, which was designed in 1937 and opened in 1940, is undoubtedly linked to Italy’s fascist past ...Fascist architecture, fashion, Fendi, all part of a history of amoral, elite good taste, something which appears to be becoming ever more inescapable as the lifestyle of the rich flies off into places ever more distant from that of the majority."....

Inside Fendi’s New Headquarters in Rome, an Icon of Fascist Architecture

Edit Bloomberg 22 Oct 2015
Fendi Roma. Owned by French luxury conglomerate LVMH, Fendi rakes in around $1 billion in annual sales. In recent years, it has worked to modernize under chief executive Pietro Beccari, adding e-commerce. “Learning about the client and integrating the client experience is fundamental for us and for the future of the company,” Beccari said earlier this year. “Fendi has good potential.” ....

Fendi rejects criticism over new HQ in Mussolini propaganda building

Edit The Guardian 22 Oct 2015
Paolo Nicoloso, an architectural historian, said the building, which was designed in 1937 and opened in 1940, is undoubtedly linked to Italy’s fascist past ...Fascist architecture, fashion, Fendi, all part of a history of amoral, elite good taste, something which appears to be becoming ever more inescapable as the lifestyle of the rich flies off into places ever more distant from that of the majority.”....

The truth is that Stormont is no more than a sideshow now

Edit The Guardian 11 Sep 2015
Related ... Malachi O’Doherty ... For Northern Ireland’s Protestants, even the buildings of Stormont, with its proto-fascist architectural grandeur, its sweeping grand vistas, are the very embodiment of their exceptionalism within the United Kingdom; a hubristic monument to the rightness of the Protestant cause and the decades of unbridled rule from the 1920s to the 1970s, in defiance of Dublin and Westminster ... Robinson has a point ... ....

BNL participates in the 23° edition of FAI Spring Days (BNP Paribas SA - Filiale Italiana)

Edit noodls 15 Apr 2015
Accompanied by art historians, the guests were able to explore the corridors and representative chambers of the institution's headquarters, known to be one of the most important examples of fascist architecture by the renowned Architect Marcello Piacentini, and ......

More useful to redefine, not destroy, the Rhodes statue

Edit Mail Guardian South Africa 31 Mar 2015
Am I the only one who feels ambivalent over the demand that the Cecil John Rhodes statue be taken down at the University of Cape Town? ... We re-work it ...       ... When one is there one cannot but compare the forbidding, domineering, fascist architecture of one monument with the gentle, welcoming design of the other, and the exclusionary way in which one story is told alongside the inclusive nature of the other.” ... Twitter....

Fendi's dolly vita

Edit The Daily Telegraph 14 Mar 2015
Architecture Claire Wrathall ... Property The Diary Pictures Topics Art Collectables Design Drinking & Dining Jewellery Men's Style Motoring Property & Architecture Technology Travel Watches Women's Style Video Events My Notebook ... Set in the EUR district of Rome, the palazzo, also known as “the square colosseum”, was built in the 1930s as a beacon of fascist architecture and Italian design....

BNL BNP Paribas Group will open its Headquarters in Rome in occasion of FAI Spring Days 21 and 22 March (BNP Paribas SA - Filiale Italiana)

Edit noodls 13 Mar 2015
Situated in the heart of Rome, between piazza Barberini and the Villa Borghese Gardens, the building of the BNL headquarters is one of the most important examples of monumental fascist architecture of the 1930's....
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