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Heating plant and Main controls cabin at Santa Maria Novella railway station
Centrale termica e Cabina apparati centrali della Stazione Santa Maria Novella
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General information
Architectural styleFuturist architecture
Town or cityFlorence
CountryItaly Italy
Coordinates43°46′53.96″N 11°14′41.77″E / 43.7816556°N 11.2449361°E / 43.7816556; 11.2449361
Construction started1933
Completed1935
Design and construction
Architect(s)Angiolo Mazzoni

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[1][2].

  1. ^ See Critical reception section
  2. ^ 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