Word: palazzetto
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...strong, light blend of mortar and steel mesh called ferrocemento and, by casting major structural pieces at construction sites, managed to mold concrete into soaring, tilted buttresses and high, swooping ceilings. His finest buildings, critics agree, are the vast Exhibition Hall in Turin, Rome's sunburst-domed Palazzetto dello Sport and the oystershell-shaped, ribbed-concrete Pope Paul VI Audience Hall in the Vatican. In the U.S., his works include San Francisco Cathedral and New York City's George Washington Bridge Bus Station. Modest and hardworking, Nervi always considered himself an engineer rather than an architect...