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The Palazzo INPS, designed by Virgilio Vallot and Angelo Scattolin in the Italian Rationalist tradition, belongs to a generation of public buildings that stripped classical architecture down to its underlying geometry — columns without capitals, cornices without friezes, facades that assert institutional authority through repetition rather than ornament. Here five cantilevered balconies recede into perspective, each one faced in pale Istrian stone and fitted with teal vertical-slat railings whose paint has oxidized to the same verdigris as the city's ironwork. The balconies project far enough to throw a deep triangle of shadow on the wall beneath each one, doubling the building's visual rhythm. It is public architecture doing precisely what it was designed to do: project permanence through geometry, in a city that was already several centuries ahead of it on the subject.
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