Thursday, 18 July 2019
Wednesday, 17 July 2019
il lingotto - a track on the roof in 1923
Lingotto is a district of Turin, Italy, and the location of the Lingotto building in Via Nizza. This building once housed an automobile factory built by Fiat.
the track for cars on the roof of the lingotto
Construction started in 1916 and the building opened in 1923.
The design (by young architect Matté Trucco) was unusual
in that it had five floors, with raw materials going in at
the ground floor, and cars built on a line that went up
through the building. Finished cars emerged at rooftop
at that time.
For its time, the Lingotto building was avant-garde,
influential and impressive - Le Corbusier called it "one of the most impressive
sights in industry", and "a guideline for town planning".
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