Mario Palanti

Mario Palanti (* 1885 in Milan, † 1978 ) was an Italian architect, whose main works are in Buenos Aires and Montevideo. He was the brother of the painter Giuseppe Palanti.

Palanti was a graduate of the Academy of Brera and the Politecnico di Milano. He accompanied Francisco Gianotti in 1909 as an employee for the construction of the Italian Pavilion at the Centennial Exhibition in 1910 in the Argentine capital.

The eclectic Palanti built in the sequence about 20 years magnificent buildings for the Italian -born elite on both sides of the Rio de la Plata, for example, in the Avenida de Mayo in Buenos Aires the Palacio Barolo and the Hotel Castelar and in Montevideo Palacio Salvo. He spent his future career with the conception of monumental building projects, but they were due to the change in style from Art Deco to Modernism chance and remained unrealized. His already from 1924 originating project of a 80 -story skyscraper for the center of Rome was never realized.

In the years 1924-1928 Palanti the Civic Mausoleum Palanti designed in the Central Cemetery Monumental Cemetery in Milan. He is buried in the Mausoleum Civico Palanti.

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Palazzo Barolo, entrance hall

Hotel Castelar, Avenida de Mayo, Buenos Aires

Recoleta Avenida Santa Fe y Callao esquina NE, Buenos Aires

Palacio Salvo in Montevideo