Roma Termini stands beside the Baths of Diocletian in central Rome, the city's principal railway station, whose current building resulted from a design competition held in 1947 and won jointly by the architects Leo Calini and Eugenio Montuori together with a second team of Massimo Castellazzi, Vasco Fadigati, Achille Pintonello and Annibale Vitellozzi. Construction had begun a decade earlier as part of preparations for a 1942 world's fair that never took place because of the Second World War, and the rebuilt station finally opened in 1950. Its defining feature is a vast glass-walled entrance hall roofed by an undulating, cantilevered concrete canopy, a modernist reinterpretation of the great vaulted halls of ancient Roman baths, decorated inside with aluminum relief panels by the sculptor Amerigo Tot depicting the rhythm and speed of trains. With 32 platforms it ranks, together with Paris's Gare du Nord and Munich's Hauptbahnhof, among the largest railway stations in Europe.
Facts
Building Type LocationPiazzale dei Cinquecento, Rome, Italy 1 Completed Year Classification
Standing Status Building Type
Building Type (category) Connections
Has Building Type
Entity-backed identity for the building-type enum value this building already carries, resolved to an architecture concept by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The building-type fact itself stays on the building unchanged.
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Sources
1. Roma Termini railway station, Wikipedia
Lead paragraph
the main railway station of Rome, Italy
Infobox, Address
Piazzale dei Cinquecento, 00185 Rome, Italy
History section
It was inaugurated in 1950.
Entity description and the lead/infobox of the Wikipedia article
Roma Termini stands beside the Baths of Diocletian in central Rome, the city's principal railway station, whose current building resulted from a design competition held in 1947 and won jointly by the architects Leo Calini and Eugenio Montuori together with a second team of Massimo Castellazzi, Vasco Fadigati, Achille Pintonello and Annibale Vitellozzi. Construction had begun a decade earlier as part of preparations for a 1942 world's fair that never took place because of the Second World War, and the rebuilt station finally opened in 1950. Its defining feature is a vast glass-walled entrance hall roofed by an undulating, cantilevered concrete canopy, a modernist reinterpretation of the great vaulted halls of ancient Roman baths, decorated inside with aluminum relief panels by the sculptor Amerigo Tot depicting the rhythm and speed of trains. With 32 platforms it ranks, together with Paris's Gare du Nord and Munich's Hauptbahnhof, among the largest railway stations in Europe.
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