Although Italian Facist architecture is a rightfully contentious subject, there’s no denying the splendour of this elaborately mosaicked swimming pool, the Palazzo delle Terme, captured here in 2014 by photographer Adam Eastman. The pool forms part of a vast sports complex in Rome, the Foro Italico, commissioned by Mussolini in the late 1920s. It was designed by Costantino Costantini, with suitably muscular mosaics by Angelo Canevari and Giulio Rosso, and was inspired by the imposing Roman forums of the imperial age.
