Buildings and structures in Florence at risk of demolition for the new high-speed train station AV

"The high-speed rail coming to Florence with the la new station of 'Arch. Norman Foster in the area of Ex Macelli. 1 billion and 700 million euros cost for pharaonic excavation work below that will build the new train station with tracks completely independent from the central station of S. M. News. The monuments at risk : the complex "dei Macelli", the buildings " "Squadra Rialzo", the bastion Rastaglia Strozzi and the Fortezza da Basso and the Arc of Lorena, built in 1737/39 for the arrival of Francesco Stefano in Tuscany. In addition to conduct an " intermediate stop " the connection between the stations, it was also decided to demolish a building built by the famous 'railway engineer architect' Angiolo Mazzoni in the '30s. The work of Mazzoni, important building of ' rationalism Florentine ' remains unique and pioneering in its kind, also aroused the enthusiastic appreciation of the Futurist Movement. The demolition despite the complex were placed according to the new italian Code of Cultural Heritage."

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The building's heating plant Angiolo Mazzoni, a bird's eye view of the prospectus Road 'Delle Ghiacciaie'.

"Thursday, May 6, 2010 was held at the Rome conference services to make the connection to the shuttle, about 1.3 km long, including the new high-speed train station, designed by Norman Foster, and the railway station of Santa Maria Novella in Florence. At the meeting it was decided to demolish a building, flanked to the thermal power station also built by Angiolo Mazzoni in the 30s, to conduct an "intermediate stop" the connection between the stations. The work of Mazzoni, unique, aroused the enthusiastic appreciation of Marinetti founded the Futurist movement in 2009 was celebrated for the centenary of the publication of the Manifesto. Despite all the complex Mazzoni is bound in accordance with the Code of Cultural Heritage in 2004, THE SUPERVISOR HAS REMOVED THE LINK to this building and has favored the design choice that provides its demolition "

"The substantive issue is that instead of this building Mazzoni will place the structures needed to make a stop connection with the probable realization of industrial shelters and anything else necessary to deface the image and integrity of the work of Mazzoni, one of the main buildings of the twentieth century in Florence. An "intermediate stop" in a parking lot with no possibility of problems of traffic congestion and poor pedestrian mobility and therefore a project that is a logical function and also as a possible connection to the Fortezza da Basso. The curiosity is that on the same day May 6 is handed the "KEYS OF THE CITY" Portuguese architect Alvaro Siza in the Salone de 'Two Hundred in the Palazzo Vecchio, organized by our association. On the one hand we bestow honors and the other strikes, even partially, with the pick one of the greatest buildings of the twentieth century. "

Taken from the FB pages: PETITION: SAVE THE CENTRAL THERMOELECTRIC of Angiolo Mazzoni IN FLORENCE.

Plan of layout of sub-excavation of the new tracks of high speed. The shift in the pattern matching purple buildings, from left to right: because of iceboxes, Fortezza da Basso, Viale S. Lavagnini, Piazzale della Libertą.

"About The thermal power plant artist Tommaso Filippo Marinetti in 1933 in the pages of "Futurism" he praised "the scale spiralica iron that at a given height is changed into horizontal walkway to reach the mouth of smoke before and that the other" thus forming an elegant promenade metal in a vacuum, that agilizza throughout the building and calls for its fluffiness "Atmospheric, certain volatile and elastic music of Debussy" in 1935 Giacomo Devoto on the head of the Florentine "Il Bargello" had considered the thermal power plant, "the most perfect, the most complex and comprehensive, the most beautiful that exists in Italy and perhaps in Europe. "e

Taken from: PETIZIONE- SALVIAMO IL COMPLESSO ARCHITETTONICO DI A. MAZZONI A S. M. NOVELLA in FLORENCE

The building's heating plant Angiolo Mazzoni, photos in b / w, the main faēade towards the railway with the Order of munumentale windows.

"The Central heat and central cabin apparti", which was one of the two "modern designs" (the other was the building of ancillary services along Via Alamanni) of the complex of Santa Maria Novella railway designed by Angiolo Mazzoni: the main interpreter of the modernization of 'railway architecture began precisely with the national competition for the passenger building Florentine architect able to decline the new formal repertoire in most major stations built in Italy during the Thirties."

Taken from: PETIZIONE- SALVIAMO IL COMPLESSO ARCHITETTONICO DI A. MAZZONI A S. M. NOVELLA in FLORENCE

"The high level of experimentation that characterizes the work of Mazzoni overall makes it difficult to reduce to a common denominator its language. Witness the variety of styles which are based some of his most significant works , such as the Cologne Calambrone at Pisa (1925 -1926 ) , the futurist , the post office building in Pula (1930) , rationalist , or the heat of the Central railway Station of Florence, constructivist . L' stubborn , public adherence to fascism by Mazzoni (not denied even after the war world , at the cost of a voluntary exile in Colombia after the war until 1963 ) has cost the architect and made great sacrifices problematic for many decades , as part of the Italian architectural criticism , the full recognition due to a technical and artistic author of first importance not only for the exceptional abundance of its production , but also for its outstanding quality , testified for the sake of completeness the efficiency with which many public buildings built by Angiolo Mazzoni are still in function satisfying most of the needs for which they were were originally conceived."

Txt taken from Wikipedia "Angiolo mazzoni".

Detail of the area because of iceboxes where the heating plant designed by Angelo Mazzoni (silhouettes in red).