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Heating plant and main controls cabin at Santa Maria Novella railway station

Heating plant and main controls cabin at Santa Maria Novella railway station Heating plant and main controls cabin at Santa Maria Novella railway station - Credit: Wikimedia Commons

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 masterpieces of Futurist architecture.See Critical reception sectionIn 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 Read more on Wikipedia

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