Cannariato's Italy Mission: All kinds of buildings

Of course, Italy is know for its famous buildings, many of them churches, castles or monuments. Here are a few other types of structures we found interesting.

This VERY Venetian office building in downtown Bari. Its a lot newer than it looks.

Here is a nice looking modern office building, also in Bari. Look closely (sixth floor) and you'll see one of its tenants is the international accounting firm Deloitte.

A mix of old and new along Corso Vittorio Emanuele II in Bari.

Same street in Bari. It's hard to look at this pattern for very long!

Just outside Foggia (the city of grain) a very large and very yellow granary.

Also in Foggia...I guess the design review committee was feeling a little festive when they gave their approval for this rainbow regalia!

While you're waiting for your project to get approved, don't let the two buildings on either side collapse!

We call this church Skateboarder's Heaven!

View from Piazza Aldo Moro directly in front of the Bari train station.

Opposite view looking towards the train station Bari Centrale.

Teatro Petruzzelli, a beautiful opera house where we saw Verdi's Aida for our anniversary.

Here's a new tilt up concrete industrial building outside Foggia.

Hotel Romanazzi Carducci here in Bari

An unusual office building in downtown Bari

I think Italy had "mixed use" long before it was popular in the US. Here's just one of thousands of examples. Retail shops on the bottom floor and apartments above.

Here's an interesting way to build a clear span warehouse.

For us real estate types, here's a familiar sign in downtown Bari.

This is a mixed use project in Polignano a Mare. Businesses on the ground floor with apartments above.

While the majority of Italians live in multi-family dwellings, most do not look as institutional as this one just outside Brindisi. Perhaps it is nice on the inside?

As print journalism declines, so does the maintenance of their headquarters, I suppose.

A new building's foundation not too far from our apartment. I want to have the rebar contract!

The poured in place reinforced concrete is contrasted by the baked ceramic brick fillers.

Speaking of unique construction, the city of Alberobello is famous for its conical "trulli" They are magical.

I'd love to live in an apartment complex with this modern, attractive entry.

If you've ever seen the teeny tiny elevators in Italian apartment buildings, you know why exterior contraptions like these are needed to move stuff in and out. Necessity is the mother of invention.