I was walking along in Rome last week and came across a car repair garage (“Autorimessa”) with a pretty cool script sign above the garage door:
Then I saw that the same business had a second interesting type treatment of the word “Autorimessa” a couple doors down:
But when I was reviewing this photo back at home, I started to think I had come along a hidden Brutalist building near Campo di Fiori. The beveled forms for the window wells and the bi-level balcony ledge are very nice details.
But, alas, a check of Google Street View shows that this is just a single floor of poured concrete built beneath a typical mid-block Roman apartment building to allow for cars to drive down into the garage basement.
All hail