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Students found beauty not only in perfection, but in an abandoned tobacco factory built by Pier Luigi Nervi in Bologna now being repurposed as a meteorological center.

Designed by Pier Luigi Nervi, an Italian engineer, it was hailed as an avant-garde piece of modernist architecture when it opened in 1963.

In the heart of the city, near the central train station, rises a monument from a different era: Giò Ponti and Pier Luigi Nervi’s Pirelli skyscraper, the symbol of Italy’s postwar economic boom.

Tom lay in the dark, away from it all, under it all, in the distant little cemetery of Nervi, where the sea that he loved shone and danced within a stone's-throw of his folded hands.

It is interesting to see the astonishment and admiration of Spagnoletti and Nervi as they watch his evolutions.