The design addressed the refurbishment of the whole pedestrian square at the confluence of Via Montenapoleone and Via Manzoni, historic routes that now form part of the Milan Fashion Quad. 

Modelled on a small, peaceful Lombard square, paved with small blocks of porphyry, the piazza is furrowed in the middle by a channel and edged by two rows of mulberry trees, alternated with iron streetlamps painted green and accompanied by pink Baveno granite benches. 

Once in the square, the gaze is drawn to an open cube in grey and pink Candoglia marble (the same as that of the Duomo), containing steps that climb to a podium with a long slit. On the other side, the cube is closed apart from a triangular bronze cornice through which water flows into a grating sunk in the paving.