Milan has a relevant heritage of swimming facilities, true architectural landmarks of the 20th century, still it struggles to valorize it: it is part of a bigger problem, the city’s relationship with water.
Italian television has many “homes,” but only one stands out as true auteur architecture – and what an auteur it is! Celebrating its 70th anniversary, RAI’s historic headquarters in Milan is the masterpiece of Gio Ponti.
From Torre Velasca to CityLife, from San Siro to Porta Nuova, all the great changes that have involved the city over the last seven decades are available to the eyes of who climbs to the top of Milan’s first television antenna.
The building designed by Ponti with Fornaroli, Soncini and Bertolaia, where the history of Italian television began in 1954, is also the setting for a veritable essay on the transformation of interiors in the post-war period: Ramak Fazel’s photographs tell this story for Domus.
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What does a place where TV was born look like? Seven decades of objects and spaces conceived, rethought and embedded inside 27, Corso Sempione tell us how life in Italian national TV is a matter of design.
Renzo Piano Building Workshop returns to the building he renovated as the headquarters of the financial newspaper Il Sole 24 Ore, now an urban oasis that is being revived with the works of three contemporary artists.
The portfolio created by Marco Menghi for Domus explores the interiors of architectures best known for their street facades, such as the famous Torre Rasini, and returns a precise and fascinating interpretation.
By integrating public and private green, this new building near Zona Tortona will use plants to fight climate change.
Part of the masterplan for the redevelopment of southern Milan will be dedicated to the construction of the Olympic village. A project by the american architecture studio Skidmore Owings & Merrill.
Connecting a system of three squares, there will be a new big public park, an art installation, urban vegetable gardens, recreational areas and sports fields.
“Carlo Aymonino. Loyalty to Betrayal” at the Triennale di Milano offers a passionate and accurate portrait of a master of Italian architecture, one that deserves to be rediscovered. The interview with curator Manuel Orazi.
The project for the renovation of one of Milan’s major squares is a dangerous precedent of alienation of a collective asset, the outcome of a negotiation between public and private actors based on controversial criteria.
The square is currently one of the city's most important, crowded and chaotic traffic hubs. The competition for the redevelopment was won by a team led by Ceetrus Nhood. The goal is to create an “open-air green plaza”.
The team, which includes Diller Scofidio + Renfro and Carlo Ratti Associati, will design the masterplan of the former railway area. The initiative led by Coima, Covivio and Prada Holding will revitalise an area that is focal in the sustainable transformation of Milan.
A4A architects designed the interiors of a brewery in the Barona neighborhood in Milan with materials that are simple but carefully combined: a tribute to Achille and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni.
The modern architecture of post-war Milan was able to combine regulations, technological innovations and formal quality with a cultured approach, grounded in concreteness and technical knowledge, as the example of Gigi Gho’ teaches us.
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