Milano Projects 11 Created 12-May-12 By yun chen, beijing, China Pirelli tower Milan, Gio Ponti office Zona K D&G Headquarters Corso Italia Housing SS Giovanni e Paolo Church 4 Gallaratese II Housing 8 Velasca Tower 9 New Trade Fair 10 Milan, Massimiliano and Doriana Fuksas canopy, commercial space, congress centre 5 Parkrand 11 Amsterdam, Netherlands MVRDV housing, kindergarten 6 Milan, Luigi Figini and Gino Pollini church, youth house Luigi Bocconi Free University Milan, BBPR housing, office Milan, Luigi Moretti housing, office 3 Milan, Piuarch meeting room, office, showroom Milan, Grafton architects education, laboratorium, university Milan, ifdesign education, exposition space, theatre 2 Cinematek 12 Brussels, Belgium Robbrecht en Daem en archive, cinema, museum 7 Milan, Aldo Rossi housing http://wwwmimoaeu/users/lilianchen89/guides/milano/ 1
Pirelli tower Piazza Duca d'aosta 3 20124 Milan http://wwwpirellicom In 1950 Alberto Pirelli, the president of the Pirelli Company, required that a skyscraper be built in the original area where the first factory was constructed in the 19th century The project was developed by architect Gio Ponti, with the assistance of Pier Luigi Nervi and Arturo Danusso At 1271 meters (417 feet), it is the tallest building in the city and was built of concrete (est 60,000 tons) Construction of the tower began in 1956 in a time that was experiencing an economic boom The tower was to be surrounded by low lying buildings on a hectagonal plot of land Upon its completion in 1958, it became one of the symbols of Milan and of the national economical recovery The building was later sold to the Lombardy region, of which is now the head office Characterized by a bold, structural skeleton, smooth refined curtain wall façades, and tapered sides like the bow of a ship, it was among the first skyscrapers to abandon the customary block form Project is not public! 1-1958 Main designer, Gio Ponti Pier Luigi Nervi the Pirelli Company Marloes_Faber Near Milan Central Station http://wwwmimoaeu/users/lilianchen89/guides/milano/ 2
photo: Marco Mazzola photo: Marco Mazzola Zona K Via Spalato 11 20124 Milan http://wwwzonakit This project is the renovation of an old work-space to settle a theatre school, but also a location for events, expositions and artistic performances It is a flexible and neutral space but with its own identifiable nature The project had to include a large free space, zenithal light and complex technological equipment These questions have their solution in the central space where large suspended cones with variable diameter (from 138 to 380 cm) guide natural and artificial light and contain the installations photo: Marco Mazzola Project is public! 2010 Main designer, ifdesign Pietro Bagnoli Zona K liutaiogitano http://wwwmimoaeu/users/lilianchen89/guides/milano/ 3
photo: Alberto Piovano photo: Ruy Teixeira D&G Headquarters Via Giuseppe Broggi 23 20129 Milan http://wwwdolcegabbanacom/corporate/en/office/office-d eghtml The headquarters for the D&G brand, right in the middle of Milan and designed by the Milan architecture studio Piuarch, combines, links and internally reorganizes two factory blocks Synergy between the classic and the contemporary is one of the core features of this design, which sets the early 20th century block with its historic frontage off against the 1960s structure, now new-built in glass This glazed façade is one of the works most characteristic features, running unbroken around three sides of the whole building so as to provide total illumination inside at any time of day and stunning visual impact The link between the two buildings, moderating their different natures with its own rigour, is provided by the new full-height connection with its staircase ramps in unpolished metal plate The ground floor opens internally onto a garden of white pebbles, animated by green islands their curvaceous shapes contrasting with the straight lines of the façade photo: Alberto Piovano Project is not public! Floor area/size 6-2006 5000 m² Structural engineer Technical engineer Piuarch FV Progetti Snc GTEC Sas Dolce&Gabbana Piuarch http://wwwmimoaeu/users/lilianchen89/guides/milano/ 4
photo: bryan boyer photo: bryan boyer Corso Italia Housing Corso Italia 13 20122 Milan A cluster of mid-rise towers containing houses and office spaces, this project looms over Corso Italia with a commanding street presence The form and façade both exhibit careful detailing in the form of subtle inflections It is located on one of the main streets in the centre of Milan It is built on a difficult to infill site; an irregular block in a dense urban context The design successfully combines the complex program of housing, ground floor commercial use, parking space and offices The 5 building parts are arranged in such a way that together they define several public and private courtyards and streets Project is not public! 1956 Luigi Moretti City of Milan bryan photo: bryan boyer Take the L3 metro to Missori and then walk 3 blocks south on Corso Italia Building will be on your left at the intersection of Via Rugabella http://wwwmimoaeu/users/lilianchen89/guides/milano/ 5
photo: Federico Curiél photo: Federico Curiél SS Giovanni e Paolo Church Via Privata Catone 10 20158 Milan This ecclesiastical complex, designed by Italian architects Luigi Figini and Gino Pollini, occupies a trapezoidal plot on the northern periphery of Milan The church and adjoining youth centre have a very irregular form, since the perimeter consists of a constant pattern of advances and regressions, making for broken sight lines and a continuous play between outside and inside (text from LombardiaBeniCulturali) photo: Federico Curiél Project is public! 1968 Luigi Figini and Gino Pollini Freddy_Curiel Tram number 3 to Piazzale Nigra Closest metro station: Maciachini http://wwwmimoaeu/users/lilianchen89/guides/milano/ 6
Gallaratese II Housing Via Enrico Falck 37 Milan Located in the city of Milan, the Gallaratese II housing complex has the capacity to house 2400 inhabitants Aldo Rossi designed the complex at the 'Gallaratese Quarter II' to be a self-contained village which was even dubbed a 'Palais social' by its tenants This coordinates with Rossi s philosophy of architecture His view that the primary sources of all architectural content lie in the school, the hospital and the prison is reflected in the use of primary forms, axial orientation and repetitive elements in the façades Gallaratese II is designed with two apparent axes: north-south and east-west These indicate the primary circulation routes of the building as well as guiding the relationships between the building and the rest of the quarter (from website University of Colorado Denver) Public access unknown! 1970 Aldo Rossi Marloes_Faber 'Bonola' is the nearest underground station The gate to the complex is not always opened http://wwwmimoaeu/users/lilianchen89/guides/milano/ 7
photo: Beatriz W Fideles photo: Beatriz W Fideles Luigi Bocconi Free University Viale Bligny 20136 Milan http://wwwunibocconiit Milan's Luigi Bocconi Free University dates back from 1902 and has grown in the past 100 years from a privately funded institution to an international university for business, economics and law Because the campus kept growing over the decades, it now comprises an entire neighbourhood within a residential and commercial district, and new facilities had to be built In this new building, new conference and lecture rooms can be found, as well as a 1000-seat aula and research offices for 1000 professors and postgraduate students photo: Beatriz W Fideles Project is public! Floor area/size 6-2005 45000 m² Technical engineer Grafton architects Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara isida http://wwwmimoaeu/users/lilianchen89/guides/milano/ 8
Velasca Tower Piazza Velasca 1 20122 Milan Close to Milan's city centre, looking up, one can notice the presence of an outstanding profile: it is the outline of Torre Velasca, whose symbolic value one is able to guess from a distance The building was designed in the 1950s by a group of Milanese architects called BBPR after their names: Banfi, Belgiojoso, Peressutti and Rogers The Velasca Tower belongs to the first generation of Italian modern architecture, nevertheless keeping itself linked to the Milanese context in which it was born, and relating itself particularly to the cathedral, the city's bell towers and above all to the Sforzesco Castle The tower, with its characteristic 'mushroom' shape and height of 99 metres, sticks out into the city centre skyline, made up of buildings, domes, towers and bell towers Its structure recalls the Lombard tradition of the massive profile of towers and medieval fortresses photo: Benjo Zwarteveen Project is not public! 1-1958 BBPR Marloes_Faber By underground: Piazza Velasca is the nearest stop http://wwwmimoaeu/users/lilianchen89/guides/milano/ 9
photo: Archivio Fuksas photo: Archivio Fuksas New Trade Fair Strada Statale 33 del Sempione 28 20017 Milan http://wwwfieramilanoit The New Trade Fair is not only a big project for the Milan region its dimensions make it one of the biggest buildings in Europe Massimiliano Fuksas conceived the site on the outskirts of the city as a new landscape with its own geography The project is structured by a central axis that connects the service centres, offices and the exhibition halls The whole complex is covered by a vast roof - an undulating lightweight structure, with a surface area exceeding 46000 square metres, over 1300 metres long and approximately 32 metres wide Made up of a reticular rhomboidal mesh structure in prefinished steel profiles, it is connected via spherical nodes and covered with laminated glass attached via plates to the profiles below It is supported by 183 steel columns 500 mm in diameter which branch into smaller supporting arms above 12 metres Fuksas derived the form from constant altimetric variations as found in the natural landscape in the form of 'craters', 'waves' and 'dunes' Project is public! 2005 Main designer, Supplier Contractor Supplier Supplier Associate architect Supplier Structural engineer Supplier Contractor Associate architect Building physics consultant Technical engineer Contractor Massimiliano and Doriana Fuksas Doriana O Fuksas Ask Romein Astaldi Spa Bemo Systems Carpentieri d'italia Giorgio Martocchia Icom Engineering Mero GmbH & Co Permasteelisa Spa Pizzarotti Spa Ralf Bock Schlaich, Bergermann und Partner Studio Marzullo Srl Vianini Spa Fondazione Fiera Milano Kirsten_Hannema photo: Archivio Fuksas Located in Rho-Pero (on the northwestern outskirts of Milan), along highway SS33 http://wwwmimoaeu/users/lilianchen89/guides/milano/ 10
photo: Bjorn Utpott photo: Bjorn Utpott Parkrand Dr Colijnstraat 260 1067 CP Amsterdam Netherlands http://wwwparkrandnl/ The neighbourhood Geuzenveld is located in the western garden cities of Amsterdam There is plenty of public space available but most of these green spaces lack grandeur The project is regarded to be a 'key-operation within the urban renewal of Geuzeveld-Slotermeer The building should provide an iconographic quality to the neighbourhood which it was lacking before The housing block is situated at the edge of a park and consists out of 5 towers, positioned on a deck, carrying a two level roof plate The positioning of the towers provides a clear view from all apartments to the park Because of the holes, or empty spaces in-between, the dwellings behind the big block also still have a view on the park The title of the project - Parkrand means park-edge photo: Bjorn Utpott Project is not public! 6-2007 Developer MVRDV Kristal Het Oosten Bjorn_Utpott The Geuzenveld neighbourhood is west of the city centre of Amsterdam Tram line 13 takes you from the Central Train Station to the neighbourhood Geuzenveld Stop at Dhr H Colijnstraat You can also take bus number 21 and 192 from the centre Stop at Dhr H Colijnstraat http://wwwmimoaeu/users/lilianchen89/guides/milano/ 11
photo: Katrien Daem photo: Tim van de Velde Cinematek Baron Hortastraat 9 1000 Brussels Belgium http://wwwcinematekbe/ Robbrecht en Daem en know how to put cultural heritage in a contemporary perspective For the renovation and refurbishment of the Film Museum, located in the Centre for Fine Arts in Brussels, the architects used new and old means The light and the visual angles in Victor Horta's building were used to let Cinematek connect with the rest of the structure With more than 50000 titles, the Film Museum has one of the most important movie collections in the world Therefore, technological enhancements and digitizing the vast collection were necessary to preserve and exhibit it photo: Tim van de Velde Project is public! Floor area/size 2-2009 950 m² Robbrecht en Daem en Koninklijk Belgisch Filmarchief MRND http://wwwmimoaeu/users/lilianchen89/guides/milano/ 12