Danteum

Giuseppe Terragni with P. Lingeri, Rome Italy, 1938-1940 (not built)

The Danteum is an undeveloped building, designed by the architect Giuseppe Terragni and Pietro Lingeri, which was to be built in Rome at the intersection of via Cavour and via dell'Impero. The remains of the project make us Terragni's unfulfilled dream for a monument to Dante, in which the Divine Comedy was projected in an architectural scheme. (Source Wikipedia)

"an architectural organism that through the balanced proportions of its walls, its rooms, its ramps, its stairs, its ceilings, the changing play of light and sun, which penetrates from above, can give the feeling of isolation contemplative, abstraction from the external world ".
Giuseppe Terragni