The Palazzo della Civiltà Italiana in Rome's EUR district was designed in 1938 by Giovanni Guerrini, Ernesto Lapadula and Mario Romano, with Marcello Piacentini revising the final plans. Construction ran from 1938 to 1943, and it was inaugurated unfinished on November 30, 1940. It was built for the canceled 1942 world's fair, and the article names no client.
The text calls the style Italian Rationalism with a neoclassical design. A concrete skeleton is clad in travertine. The base is 169 feet (51.6 m) square and the building is 223 feet (68 m) high, with six rows of nine arches on each facade. Twenty-eight statues stand around the base, and Dioscuri groups mark the podium corners.
The article dates the statues to 1942, before the 1943 completion, and also to ten years after completion. The building stood empty for over a decade after World War II and was restored from 2003 to 2008. It has been the Fendi headquarters since 2015.
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