Cover of Casabella, N. 516, September 1985, 20th Century, graphic, 31 x 28 cm

Whole artwork view. Red headline over a detail from a drawing by English architect John Soane, representing a worker on the wooden scaffolds of the construction site of the Bank of England; the man is handling a massive tool, nearly as tall as him, balancing on a wooden board of the scaffolding made up for the construction of the vaults of the Old Colonial Building (or Five Per Cent Office), in 1818; on the left foreground is a section of a barrel vault roof made in masonry, which is to be replicated in the adjacent side of the main vault, where the earthenware elements are set just for the main arch; on the background, the pre-existing buildings of the Bank, among them the façade designed by George Sampson around the 1730's. Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, Milan, Italy