Architektur

Via Anzani Workers’ Housing

On paper, this was a whole new district. Then the budget cuts arrived, and an entire neighbourhood shrank to two apartment blocks.

Adresse
Via Anzani 34, Como
Region
Como, Italien
Via Anzani Workers’ Housing

Warum der Umweg sich lohnt

Two apartment blocks are all that remain of an ambitious Fascist-era plan for a self-contained workers’ district at Rebbio. Budget cuts killed most of the scheme, but the buildings’ galleries and orientation preserve the planning ideas of Terragni and Sartoris.

Via Anzani Workers’ Housing consists of two apartment blocks that are remnants of an ambitious Fascist-era plan for a self-contained workers’ district. The buildings highlight the architectural ideas of Terragni and Sartoris.

Die Menschen hinter dieser Adresse

Belegte Verbindungen, keine Promi-Anekdoten.

  • Giuseppe Terragni

    Hier entstanden

    Terragni co-designed the surviving workers’ housing derived from the unrealized Rebbio satellite-town scheme.

  • Alberto Sartoris

    Hier entstanden

    Sartoris collaborated with Terragni on the housing and wider urban plan.

Was sonst in der Nähe liegt

Die nächstgelegenen Orte, über die wir geschrieben haben, mit Luftlinie von hier.

  • 300 m

    Casa Cattaneo-Alchieri

    Look up: one apartment block is doing its best impression of a pile of private villas. Pietro Lingeri built the illusion with projecting terraces—then returned in the 1950s and disrupted his own skyline.

  • 350 m

    Sant'Elia Nursery School

    Como’s textile economy is gathering speed, the workers’ district is growing, and many mothers are heading to work. One practical question follows them out the door: who looks after the children?

  • 400 m

    Como Silk Museum

    On Via Castelnuovo, the hunt comes down to one small detail: number 9. Find it, and silk gets the whole museum to itself.

  • 450 m

    Paolo Carcano Silk Institute

    Lake Como gets the postcards; this campus tells the story behind the silk. Here, fashion meant chemistry, weaving and homework long before it meant a polished shop window.

  • 550 m

    Casa Pedraglio

    Mid-construction, Casa Pedraglio lost two structural bays. The apartment house carried on anyway, leaving Terragni’s composition with architecture’s equivalent of deleted paragraphs still showing.

  • 550 m

    Where the Cosia Disappears at Via Piave

    Follow the Cosia beside the street and it pulls a neat vanishing act: one moment it is in the open, the next it is running beneath central Como toward the lake.

Mit den Geschichten ablaufen

Diese Adresse ist eine Station von vielen. Unsere Routen und Quests verbinden sie zu einem Weg, der vor Ort aufgeht.

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