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27 march 2012
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"THE CULTURE FACTORY" project, for which the Ivrea town council is inviting international submissions for the development of the centre, is online.
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Ivrea 26-11-2010
Mission accomplished! announcing "The Culture Factory" |
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Ivrea 26-11-2010
The speech of the mayor of Ivrea. |
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Ivrea 7-6-2010
Open letter to
Ivrea city council |
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The coordinator of the Promoter Committee, Giorgio Panattoni, writes to the Mayor of Ivrea, Carlo Della Pepa. |
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Turin 8-3-2010
Regione Piemonte supports the project
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The Olivetti Museum included in the programme of the chairman of the Regional Authority of Piedmont, Mercedes Bresso. |
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Ivrea 13-12-2009
Further details from the Promoter Committee |
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Indications and criteria for implementation in Ivrea.
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Ivrea 8-11-2009
Olivetti Museum: initial guidelines
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Giorgio Panattoni, coordinator of the Promoter Committee, illustrates the initial project ideas. |
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The Olivetti Factory in Ivrea |
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… close-up on the Ivrea buildings (2) |
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The EDP Centre
The EDP Centre was planned as a separate building from Palazzo Uffici, but linked to it via an overhead walkway. Work began in 1961 and was completed in 1962. The rectangular plan covers a surface area of 2500 m2 with two storeys, one of which below ground. The main feature is the lenticular roof: it rests on recessed side walls and therefore appears to be suspended.
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West Residence
The 82-unit complex was built to provide temporary housing for graduates and new employees. Designed in 1969 by Gabetti and Isola, the residence is jokingly referred to as “Talponia” – the mole burrow – because it is built into a small hill, with a partly paved and partly sod roof. The hill separating the building from the company factories was remodelled to accommodate the crescent-shaped residence, whose units all look on to the grassy hilltop. Small perspex domes illuminate the corridor of garages, which forms an external concentric semi-circle with respect to the housing units. The garage corridor gives access to the units, which together present a glass curtain wall, through which access is not possible.
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External areas
The landscaping of the area on which the buildings are located has never been considered a decorative operation, but part of a structured project, assigned to Piero Porcinai, who paid particular attention to the choice of plants and use of pools.
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Aerial view of the Olivetti buildings in Ivrea. To the left of the ICO buildings, the company canteen (with a polygonal layout) designed by architect Ignazio Gardella and the Olivetti Centro Studi ed Esperienze (the building with a four-wing layout) designed by architect Eduardo Vittoria; in the top left-hand corner, Palazzo Uffici with its three-wing layout.
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Rome, 25-11-2010 |
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Study conference on Adriano Olivetti |
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The Adriano Olivetti Foundation and the "Federico Caffè" Faculty of Economics at the Roma Tre University organises a study conference on Adriano Olivetti. |
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Ivrea, 17-11-2010 |
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One hundred years of Olivetti, the industrial project |
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As part of the IX Corporate Culture Week, an exhibition and cycle of meetings on the Olivetti culture. |
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DOCUMENTS |
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Olivetti video playlist on YouTube |
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Collection of historic videos, commercials, interviews and eye-witness accounts on the history of the Olivetti company and the worldwide Olivetti myth. |
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The Olivetti factory in Ivrea |
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The exhibition "One hundred years of Olivetti, the industrial project"
and a season of historic films |
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LINKS |
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Olivettiani |
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Online community of Olivettiani in Italy and around the world. |
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