| Architect |
Armando Melis de Villa in collaboration with the engineer Giovanni Bernocco |
| Date
Built |
1933 |
| Location |
Via Viotti |
| Description |
|
| A
sign at the top of this tower on Via Viotti
announces that it is associated with Reale
Mutua and today it is known as the Torre
Reale Mutua but, when it was built in the
1930s, it was called the Torre
Littoria. The building is composed of
a nine-storey block along Via Giambattista
Viotti to the corner with Via Cesare
Battisti. Rising above this lower
block is the tower that reaches 19
storeys. The building was the first
in Italy to be constructed with a welded
steel skeleton. The tower is a
residential building. |
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Lictorian Tower, Torino, Italy
      ************************ Beyond Via
Cesare Battisti is a building that looks as if it is
a twin for its neighbour minus the tower. It
also features the rounded corners, bands of render
framing windows and brick and terraced upper
floors. Old postcards seem to suggest that
these two buildings on Via Viotti may be
contemporaries.
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