Postmodern architecture icon: Piazza d'Italia. Virtual tour in google streetview

This building is one of the many postmodern icon featured in the world of modern architecture. Using the idiom of modern architecture combined with various elements of classical architecture in eclectic style, this architecture was to bring back the memory of the past to the future, in a context that can be accepted as a filler of 'emptiness' as a result of modern architecture that is too functional. This is because, the old buildings in the immigrants settlement complex from Italy needed a touch a new life for the building does not reflect the culture of Italy. 



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In the postmodern world, sometimes a building needed to appear its identity in a way like this, because it has an identity that can not be provided by the uniformity of modern architecture. In Piazza d'Italy, elements in the architecture that grew up in Italy, appear to be part of the new refreshed piazza of the complex, such as the emergence of the doric collumns, Corinthian, and ionic and placed in an informal way, in almost a humorous way connected to the elements of the new sculpture.

Building in the Piazza is a gateway to enter the complex and residential area that the recipient has a cultural identity. Its plan form a circle, with a pool, and derivative 'flat' map of Italy in the pond that shows the close relationship between Sicilian people and sea water.



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The existence of this architecture in the Piazza, can be categorized as Sculpture, where the architecture appears as a fragment of the past that are withdrawn again in the context of modern living and located in a place far from Italy, as will reconnect fragments of memory in new clothes.