Palazzetto dello Sport
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.
The venue was constructed along with the 11,500-seat Palazzo dello Sport for the 1960 Summer Olympics and inaugurated in 1957. It was designed by architect Annibale Vitellozzi its reinforced thin-shell concrete dome was engineered by Pier Luigi Nervi under the direction of Engineer Giacomo Maccagno.
At its inauguration, the facility incorporates a first-aid center, four groups of dressing-rooms along with an officials dressing room, a medical sports center, a management office and a press room with 12 telephone booths, two store rooms and basement-located Heating and air-conditioning equipment. Seating could be configured for 3,500 basketball spectators and up to 5,600 for boxing or wrestling spectators.
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.
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