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Description : The building occupies a large block with wide gardens used as an outdoor gym. It has a large, quadrangular plan whose fourth side, which runs parallel to the road and is opposite the entrance side, is a kind of large stone conservatory for indoor recreation. The building was the first important project entrusted to the design engineer Arnaldo Fuzzi who opted for a language that conformed to local eclectic stereotypes and was based on consolidated layouts designed to ensure the good functionality of this type of building. Heavily influenced by the research in materials carried out by F. Di Fausto in Predappio, the overall colour effect contrasts the high concrete base, modulated by repeated ornaments, with the warm yellow-pinkish tones of the bricks fired in the local Hoffmann kilns.
The decoration of the entrance arches, which are all connected to their impost by cornices that line the entire perimeter, is characterized by the alternation of header bricks and concrete fascias.
The entire school area is enclosed by a typical brick and terracotta wall that replaced the original iron railings
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Description : The new railway station was built by the engineer Ezio Bianchi, head of the technical office of the Bologna division of the State Railways; it was built a short distance from the previous one which was smaller and dated from 1861.
The station building was inspired by the examples of the central stations in Milan and Verona and has an eclectic-style façade with an accentuated horizontal development on three levels. The central part of the building, which corresponds to the double-height main entrance and hall, is slightly projecting and marked by two small symmetrical towers that frame the three large entrance arches.
A fountain was built at the centre of the square in front of the station, based on a design by the architect Cesare Bazzani. It has a circular tub and sculpted Imperial eagles; its jets of water sprang from a set of fasces that have since been removed
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Description : The intervention encompasses the completion of the missing left side of Palazzo Paulucci-Piazza, which was symmetrically designed to the pre-existing portion. The façade was crowned by an imposing entablature. Especially interesting is the building interior, which was constructed with relatively fewer constraints, thus resulting more modern. Despite the strong historicism of the time, modern architecture characterized by the forms of the “Fascist style”, entered the renovated building, the penthouse floor, the Prefect apartment, announced by a massive shaped-jamb door featuring impressive bird’s beak mouldings and crowned by three fasces. The new sumptuous pieces of furniture by Italo Mancini witness of the historicist and art deco taste, are still visible today.
The frescoes by Francesco Olivucci are not visible any longer, as they had been hidden because of their political meaning.
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Description : The construction of the new building housing the post office was part of the overall project of redesign of Piazza Saffi, to adapt it to its new role of social and political centre of the city. The task was entrusted to the Roman engineer Cesare Bazzani, protégé of the then Minister of Posts and Telecommunications Costanzo Ciano. The engineer proposed to position the post office on the north side of the square, by demolishing some existing buildings, among which the largest one was Palazzo Pantoli. The main façade overlooking the square was moved back with respect to the outline of the lot occupied by existing buildings, in order to space it out from the Basilica of San Mercuriale and Palazzo Paulucci Di Calboli and make it more visible. The building has a rectangular-shaped plan featuring an internal courtyard, in the middle, which provides light to the rooms of the upper floors. On the ground floor, the large semicircular entrance hall is covered by a reinforced concrete skylight. The rooms of the four wings are arranged on three levels and connected by long corridors and two stairs. The main front of the building is characterized by classical and neo-renaissance elements, as well as the contrast between bricks and travertine elements. The perfectly symmetric façade is framed by two towers to the sides and features two tiers of arches. Niches and oculi make the arcade on the ground floor more dynamic, whereas the upper arches framing two tiers of windows are separated by pilaster strips. The corner element is different in that it features a diamond-pointed rustication at the base and double pilaster strips in the upper tier.
The project envisaged the construction of a fountain in front of the building, which was actually used to embellish the railway station square. The flagpoles topped by imperial eagles are still in place in the pedestrian area before the palace.
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