Galleria Vittorio Emanuel
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 | Galleria Vittorio Emanuele |
| Designer | Giuseppe Mengoni |
| Location | Milan, Italy |
| Date | 1861 designed, built 1865 to 1877 |
| Building Type | shopping mall |
| Climate | mediterranean |
| Context | urban |
| Architectural Style | Neo-Classical, approaching Baroque |
| Street Address | |
| Notes | Two intersecting streets make a cruciform plan with domed octagon at center. Glass-roofed arcade with shops and cafes - an early formal covered street. |
| At Great Buildings | http://www.GreatBuildings.com/buildings/Galleria_Vittorio_Emanuel.html |
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Commentary
"The 640-foot-long north/south axis of its cruciform plan links the secular Piazza della Scala on the north to the spiritual Piazza della Duomo on the south. In 1877, a triumphal arch was added to the southern end of this cruciform gallery, thereby formally terminating this covered urban link between the opera house and the cathedral. The iconography of the inlaid mosaic concourse and the painted pendentives of the 164-foot octagonal dome, raised over the crossing, represents the union of church and state which first came into being with the triumphant nationalist revolution of 1848."
— Kenneth Frampton and Yukio Futagawa. Modern Architecture 1851-1945. p26.
Details
The arcade is 96 feet high.
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References
Donald Corner and Jenny Young, University of Oregon. Slide from photographers' collection. PCD.2350.1012.1143.41. interior photo of galleria looking down street through central rotunda. PCD.2350.1012.1143.42. interior view, looking down the street.
Sir Banister Fletcher. A History of Architecture. London: The Butterworth Group, 1987. ISBN 0-408-01587-X. LC 86-31761. NA200.F63 1987. discussion p1192, p1219-1220, photo p1222. — The classic text of architectural history. Expanded 1996 edition available at Amazon.com
Kenneth Frampton. Modern Architecture, 1851-1945. New York: Rizzoli International Publications, 1983. ISBN 0-8478-0506-9. LC 83-61363. NA642.F7 1983. plan and section drawings, p26. — Available at Amazon.com
Johnson Architectural Images. Copyrighted slides in the Artifice Collection.
John Julius Norwich, ed. Great Architecture of the World. London: Mitchell Beazley Publishers, 1975. interior photo of arcade, p208.Reprint edition: Da Capo Press, April 1991. ISBN 0-3068-0436-0. — An accessible, inspiring and informative overview of world architecture, with lots of full-color cutaway drawings, and clear explanations. available at Amazon.com
