Torre Velasca, Milano, Italy
The 98 m high edifice was raised between 1956 and 1958, on the designs of the BBPR architectural partnership (the four letters cover four leading architects of the era who founded the studio back in 1932, with the initial letters of their family names, namely Gian Luigi Banfi, Lodovico Barbiano di Belgiojoso, Enrico Peressutti, and Ernesto Nathan Rogers). It is located in the centre of Milano, even the taller buildings in its surroundings are halves of its height. The picture was taken from the roof of the "duomo". Torre Velasca houses offices and apartments at the same time, and has been selected as a listed building, as an important example of 20th mid-century modernism since 2011. However, the shape of the building reflects the Lombard traditions of architecture.
Torre Velasca, Milano, Italy
The 98 m high edifice was raised between 1956 and 1958, on the designs of the BBPR architectural partnership (the four letters cover four leading architects of the era who founded the studio back in 1932, with the initial letters of their family names, namely Gian Luigi Banfi, Lodovico Barbiano di Belgiojoso, Enrico Peressutti, and Ernesto Nathan Rogers). It is located in the centre of Milano, even the taller buildings in its surroundings are halves of its height. The picture was taken from the roof of the "duomo". Torre Velasca houses offices and apartments at the same time, and has been selected as a listed building, as an important example of 20th mid-century modernism since 2011. However, the shape of the building reflects the Lombard traditions of architecture.