| Architect |
B.B.P.R -
Gianluigi Banfi, Lodovico Barbiano di
Belgiojoso, Enrico Peressutti, and Ernesto
Nathan Rogers |
| Date
Built |
1956 - 1958 |
| Location |
Piazza
Velasca |
| Description |
|
This
startling tower block occupies a rather
claustrophobic location in Plazza Velasca
and in way responds to that location by
blossoming out once it rises above the
surround buildings.  The shape has been described as "mushroom-like" but is in fact a nod to medieval castle towers that are seen throughout the region, like the one below from Castello Sforzesc in Milano.  The
"turismo.milano.it" website explains
that, "The first eighteen floors
(106 metres high) house stores and
offices. The other floors, up to the
twenty-sixth, are occupied by
apartments, and are larger than the
lower floors, giving the tower its
characteristic “mushroom” shape.
There are, in total, eight hundred
apartments."
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Torre Velasca, Milano, Italy
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