The "Telve" Building, at Cortina d'Ampezzo

Abstract

This building belongs to the telephone company, and its general distribution is as follows. The semibasement is occupied with a garage, stores, and a room where the generator and batteries are situated. The ground floor opens to a square by means of an arcade: which leads to the public telephones and the company's offices. The second floor is taken up with the amplifiers and the power station. On the second floor the automatic exchange has been located. The third storey provides space for the intercity exchange and changing rooms for the telephone operators. Finally, in the attic there is a living room for the staff, as well as bedrooms for the auxiliary personnel. The structure of the building is in reinforced concrete, and it shows externally. The spaces between the structural elements are covered in timber, in the shape of planks in their natural texture, interspersed with pine strips, painted in blue. On the ground floor there is a fringe of red Castellavazzo stone, and the pavement underneath the arcade is covered with roughly shaped porflde stone slabs.