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    Pier Luigi Nervi (21 June 1891 – 9 January 1979) was an Italian engineer and architect. He studied at the University of Bologna graduating in 1913. Nervi...
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  • of 6,300, designed in reinforced concrete by the Italian architect Pier Luigi Nervi and completed in 1971. It was constructed on land donated by the Knights...
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    Stadio Flaminio (category Pier Luigi Nervi buildings)
    weightlifting, boxing and gymnastics. Pier Luigi Nervi designed the Flaminio Stadium with his son, the architect Antonio Nervi, between 1957 and 1958. The structure...
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    Pirelli Tower (category Pier Luigi Nervi buildings)
    project was developed by architect Gio Ponti, with the assistance of Pier Luigi Nervi and Arturo Danusso. Construction of the tower began in 1956, when Italy...
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  • also refer to: Mauro Nervi, an Italian poet in the Esperanto language Pier Luigi Nervi, an Italian engineer and architect. Nerva (disambiguation) Nervii,...
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    Torino Esposizioni (category Pier Luigi Nervi buildings)
    in Turin, Italy which was primarily completed in 1948, designed by Pier Luigi Nervi. The building is made with primarily ferrocemento and glass. Ferrocemento...
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    UNESCO Headquarters (category Pier Luigi Nervi buildings)
    architects: Bernard Zehrfuss (France), Marcel Breuer (Hungary), and Pier Luigi Nervi (Italy). Plans were also validated by an international committee of...
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    Stadio Artemio Franchi (category Pier Luigi Nervi buildings)
    completely finished and currently holds 47,282. The architect is Pier Luigi Nervi (known for the Nervi Hall in the Vatican) and it is one of the most relevant...
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    Palazzetto dello Sport (category Pier Luigi Nervi buildings)
    Vitellozzi. Its reinforced thin-shell concrete dome was engineered by Pier Luigi Nervi under the direction of Engineer Giacomo Maccagno. During the Olympics...
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    Good Hope Centre (category Pier Luigi Nervi buildings)
    The Good Hope Centre in Cape Town, South Africa (1976) by Pier Luigi Nervi, is an exhibition hall and conference centre, with the exhibition hall comprising...
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    Force in Orvieto, Italy, by Italian architect and structural engineer Pier Luigi Nervi, designed in 1935 and built in 1938. They were also destroyed during...
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  • wrestler Pier Luigi Nervi (1891–1979), Italian engineer Pier Carlo Padoan (born 1950), Italian economist and Minister of Economy and Finances Pier Pander...
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    who worked often with the structural engineer Pier Luigi Nervi, a specialist in reinforced concrete. Nervi created concrete beams of exceptional length...
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    Norfolk Scope (category Pier Luigi Nervi buildings)
    architect/engineer Pier Luigi Nervi in conjunction with the (now defunct) local firm Williams and Tazewell, which designed the entire complex. Nervi's design for...
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    Tour de la Bourse (category Pier Luigi Nervi buildings)
    building in the country. The Tour de la Bourse was designed by Luigi Moretti and Pier Luigi Nervi and is considered to be of the International Style. It is...
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  • Italian engineer Pier Luigi Nervi, and others. Pirelli Tower in Milan, Italy, designed by architect Gio Ponti, with Pier Luigi Nervi and Arturo Danusso...
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    monumental entrance with a large full height porch, a main hall designed by Pier Luigi Nervi in reinforced concrete, and the Teatro Nuovo, a theatre mostly focused...
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    Chrysler Hall (category Pier Luigi Nervi buildings)
    Norfolk owns and operates the venue. It was originally designed by Pier Luigi Nervi and local architects. Parramore, Thomas C.; Stewart, Peter C.; Bogger...
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    his document he described 13 different crack typologies. In 1934, Pier Luigi Nervi, who was head of a special commission established by the Opera del...
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    building of UNESCO in Paris (which was designed by Marcel Breuer, Pier Luigi Nervi and Bernard Zehrfuss). The technical design was ground-breaking at...
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    Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Assumption (San Francisco) (category Pier Luigi Nervi buildings)
    Angus McSweeney, collaborating with internationally known architects Pier Luigi Nervi and Pietro Belluschi, then the Dean of the School of Architecture at...
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  • building, a biconcave rectangular block designed by Eugène Beaudoin, Pier Luigi Nervi and Alberto Camenzind, was purpose-built between 1969–1974 in a severe...
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    station was designed in 1954 by Pier Luigi Nervi, Carlo Cocchia, Massimo Battaglini, Bruno Zevi, Giulio De Luca, Luigi Piccinato and Giuseppe Vaccaro on...
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    undulating form has been applied by architects like Le Corbusier, Pier Luigi Nervi, Félix Candela, and Santiago Calatrava. The building was designed on...
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    wood) concrete. In the first half of the twentieth century Italian Pier Luigi Nervi was noted for his use of ferro-cement, in Italian called ferro-cemento...
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    Pantelleria Airport (category Pier Luigi Nervi buildings)
    Pantelleria Airport (IATA: PNL, ICAO: LICG) is a regional airport on the Italian island of Pantelleria. It is located 5 km from the town centre and features...
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  • Rome, Italy Built for the 1960 Summer Olympics. Consulting engineer Pier Luigi Nervi. 1963 – 1971 Assembly Hall (details above) 1971 – 1976 134.1 440 Norfolk...
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    and used to be home to a tobacco factory. It was built in 1952 by Pier Luigi Nervi, who was famous for his innovative use of reinforced concrete. In addition...
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    the Unification of Italy. It was designed by the well-known engineer Pier Luigi Nervi, who designed a structure with a continuous beam of variable section...
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    biomorphic modernism of Italian, Mexican and South American modernists like Pier Luigi Nervi, Felix Candela and Oscar Niemeyer, who saw the opportunity to leave...
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