Piazza d'Italia

The Piazza d' Italia is a square near Lafayette Street in New Orleans, which was designed by architect Charles Willard Moore in the style of postmodernism, on the initiative of the Italian -born population living there. The plaza was built in 1977-1978 and connects with her style old and new.

At the center of the square is a fountain representing Italy.

According to the New York Times this area is " ... perhaps the most significant urban space that has built an American city in recent years." Interesting in this context, the reference to the painting " Piazza d' Italia " by Giorgio De Chirico, to which the court in New Orleans has striking resemblance.

The functionalist Paul Friedrich Posenenske called the Piazza d' Italia as " there gepinkelten baroque blend of the worst kind ", the top of that possess the obscenity to mock backdrop with jacking the slum dwellers.