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ModernarchitectureThe Fiat Tagliero service station in Asmara, Giuseppe Pettazzi's futurist aeroplane of 1938, its 15 m cantilevered concrete wings unsupported at the tips.
ModernarchitectureCinema Impero on Harnet Avenue, Asmara's grandest Art Deco cinema of 1937, its facade a grid of porthole lamps between fluted piers.
ModernarchitectureThe Catholic church of Our Lady of the Rosary on Harnet Avenue, a Lombard-Romanesque basilica of 1923 whose campanile is one of Asmara's landmarks.
ModernarchitectureThe Orthodox cathedral of Enda Mariam in Asmara, rebuilt in 1938 as a fusion of modernist massing with Aksumite monkey-head masonry motifs.
ModernarchitectureThe Great Mosque of Asmara, Guido Ferrazza's 1938 composition of rationalist symmetry, Islamic arcades and a slender minaret above the central market.
ModernarchitectureThe Asmara Opera House (Teatro Asmara) of 1920, an eclectic Renaissance-revival theatre with a loggia'd facade at the head of Harnet Avenue.
ModernarchitectureCinema Roma in Asmara, a rationalist cinema of the late 1930s with a marble-faced facade and a preserved period auditorium and cafe.
ModernarchitectureThe railway station of Asmara, the highland terminus of the Eritrean Railway from Massawa, an Italian-period station with its adjoining workshops and locomotive sheds.
ModernarchitectureThe central post office of Asmara, an Italian-period public building on the city's main avenue.
ModernarchitectureThe municipal swimming pool of Asmara, an Italian-period rationalist sports building with its stepped diving tower.
ModernarchitectureThe Commercial Bank of Eritrea building in Asmara, an Italian-period bank of the city's modernist core.
ModernarchitectureCinema Capitol in Asmara, a rationalist cinema of the Italian period with a curved streamlined front.
ModernarchitectureCinema Odeon in Asmara, an Italian-period cinema of the city's modernist fabric.
ModernarchitectureThe Albergo Italia in Asmara, the city's oldest hotel, an early colonial building of the 1890s on the edge of the market quarter.
ModernarchitectureThe Ministry of Education in Asmara, the former Casa del Fascio, a rationalist block of the Italian period with a tall blank tower.
ModernarchitectureThe Central Region (Maekel) administration building in Asmara, the Italian-period municipal palace of the colonial capital.
AncientarchitectureThree public-domain photographs dated 1909 record the old Enda Maryam church in Asmara before its demolition in 1919–20; Phillipson discusses the destroyed building on pp. 64–66.
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ModernarchitectureCatholic church in Asmara, Eritrea. Recorded on Wikidata as a cathedral dated 1969.
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