Palazzetto dello Sport
| PalaTiziano | |
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| Location |
Piazza Apollodoro I-00199 Rome |
|---|---|
| Coordinates | 41°55′47″N 12°28′15″E / 41.929617°N 12.470732°ECoordinates: 41°55′47″N 12°28′15″E / 41.929617°N 12.470732°E |
| Owner | Municipality of Rome |
| Capacity | Basketball: 3,500 |
| Surface | Parquet |
| Construction | |
| Broke ground | 1956 |
| Built | 1957 |
| Opened | 1957 |
| Architect | Annibale Vitellozzi |
| Structural engineer | Pier Luigi Nervi |
| Services engineer | Ingg. Nervi & Bartoli |
| Tenants | |
|
M. Roma Volley (2006-Present) Pallacanestro Virtus Roma (2011-Present) | |
The Palazzetto dello Sport is an indoor arena located in Piazza Apollodoro in Rome, Italy. It has a 3,500 seating capacity for basketball games.[1]
The venue was constructed along with the 11,500-seat Palazzo dello Sport for the 1960 Summer Olympics and inaugurated in 1957. [2] It was designed by architect Annibale Vitellozzi[2] its reinforced thin-shell concrete dome was engineered by Pier Luigi Nervi under the direction of Engineer Giacomo Maccagno.[2]
During the Olympics the arena hosted basketball among other sports.[3] Presently it is the home venue of a professional basketball team and also hosts volleyball matches and other events. It is less commonly known as the PalaTiziano[1] or PalaFlaminio,[1]
Design
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At its inauguration, the facility incorporates a first-aid center, four groups of dressing-rooms along with an officials dressing room, a medical sports centre, a management office and a press room with 12 telephone booths, two store rooms and basement-located Heating and air-conditioning equipment.[2] Seating could be configured for 3,500 basketball spectators and up to 5,600 for boxing or wrestling spectators.[2]
The arena is constructed with a ribbed concrete shell dome 61m in diameter, itself constructed of 1620 prefabricated concrete pieces,[2] braced by concrete flying buttresses. As much of the structure was prefabricated, so that the dome was erected in 40 days.[4]
Home of Virtus Roma
The arena is home to Virtus Roma. The team played there from its foundation until the early 1980s, and also for a period of several years at the start of the current millennium, when its regular home venue at the Palazzo dello Sport was being renovated. The team moved back here permanently starting in 2011, as the Palazzo dello Sport (since renamed PalaLottomatica) had high management costs and Virtus Roma was out of Euroleague competition at the time.[5]
See also
Norfolk Scope, also by Nervi
References
- 1 2 3 I NUMERI DEL PALATIZIANO Archived 2011-07-22 at the Wayback Machine.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 "The XVII Olympiad Rome 1960, Volume I, The Official Report of the Organizing Committee p59" (PDF). Federal Register May 4, 07 p.25485. ;
- ↑ 1960 Summer Olympics official report. Volume 1. pp. 60, 62.
- ↑ Fletcher, Banister; Palmes, J.C. (1975). A History of Architecture. Charles Scribner's Sons. p. 1264. ISBN 0-684-14207-4.
- ↑ "Il Palazzetto dello Sport" (in Italian). Pallacanestro Virtus Roma. Retrieved 4 October 2017.
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| Preceded by Real Madrid Pavilion Madrid |
FIBA Intercontinental Cup Final Venue 1967 |
Succeeded by The Spectrum Philadelphia |
