Casa del Mutilato - Florence, Italy - Wikipedia Entries on Waymarking.com

"Failed a first hypothesis of the location of the house of the Mutilated Pratoni of the Mint, in the early thirties the city authorities decided to place the building in a downtown area that requires its redevelopment, the choice fell in the area between the via degli Alfani and Castellaccio (the Castellaccio was never completed the ruin of the Round Brunelleschi ), then occupied by ' hospital of Santa Maria Nuova , and the intervention was included in the New university center Florentine proposed by Raffaello Brizzi .
The task was entrusted to Rodolfo Sabatini in 1931 , a project on time in the house of mutilated with adjoining restructuring of the Rotunda of the Angels was already established in April of the following year it was expected that the building has a rectangular plan with a 'appendix that stylistically re-proposed the porch of' Ammannati , aligning herself with the west front of the Rotunda, forming with it two squares. While the works were about to start, the municipal committee for the study of the PRG suggested to form at the way Castellaccio a new square, the present Piazza Brunelleschi, which was bounded on the east by the aforementioned porch, north from the house of Mutilated and from the roundabout and on the south by the new headquarters of the Savings Bank . This change involved the postponement of the building to the east, although the formal and typological character was not changed, the project underwent a substantial change to go to wedge inside the buildings situated in the courtyard of the north, as well as important changes in the system.
The work was started in September 1934 and concluded in July 1st 1936 , the test was performed on 25th of the same month. Work in progress you make some changes: it is transformed and magnified the scale of honor and made ??a panoramic loggia above the roof.
On 4 November 1937 the building was "formally" opened in the presence of the King .
After the war, due to the progressive decrease of veterans and invalids, the building was oversized compared to the real needs: in addition to the use of the Rotunda for completely different purposes (for the University), were given to the USL the offices located in the west wing of the ground floor and private boardroom (site of an architectural firm) and the former caretaker's apartment."
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