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The Heating plant and Main controls cabin is a technical facilities building in Firenze Santa Maria Novella railway station designed by architect Angiolo Mazzoni in 1929. The complex is recognized as one of the masterpiece of Futurist architecture.〔See ''Critical reception'' section〕〔In 1978, architect Léon Krier described the heating plant as ''the greatest masterpiece of Futurist-Constructivist-Modernist architecture''. Published in ''London 1978 - An architecture thesis on Angiolo Mazzoni'' by Flavio Mangione and Barbara Weiss; ''Angiolo Mazzoni e l'Architettura Futurista'' p.45〕 == History == The heating plant and main controls cabin of Firenze Santa Maria Novella railway station, like others support buildings, were planned between 1927 and 1929, before the construction of the new station (which began in 1933). At that time Mazzoni was assigned to Projects and Construction division of the Ferrovie dello Stato (''Italian State Railways''). The heating plant was part of a bigger plan that included the Post Office in via Alamanni, the recreational club for state railways workers, the ''Squadra Rialzo'' building and the overpass on viale Umberto I (today viale Fratelli Rosselli). The heating plant was designed to house four boilerplates for the new station central heating system; the main controls cabin primary purpose was to house railroad switches control tower. The heating plant was officially commissioned to Mazzoni in 1929, later he was also charged with the main controls cabin, so in a second time he worked to a solution to join the two blocks. The project was approved on 9 February 1932 with a decree by Costanzo Ciano, minister of postal and telegraph services, as a correlated work for the new station with the a 11,500,000 £ budget. In 1933, Mazzoni obtained second place〔''Angiolo Mazzoni e l'Architettua Futurista'', p. 28〕 at the competition for the Santa Maria Novella station, equally with Sot-Sass, Ferrati and Pascoletti. The competition was won by ''Gruppo Toscano'' (Tuscan Group) (Giovanni Michelucci and Italo Gamberini the notable members). The same year, on 4 July, the heating plant and main controls cabin construction was contracted to ''Bianchi Gabriello & Figli'' building firm the 1933, to be complete two years later, on 15 June, a little before the new railway station. The iron works: the four boilerplates (with vertical water tubes and three drums) and their chimneys ("Prat" type), the catwalk above them and the helix stairs was contracted to Anonima Pignone in February 1934.〔Isola, Cozzi, Nuti 1994, p. 162〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Heating plant and main controls cabin, Florence」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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