Milano, Italy, 2000-2009
The history of this place, the piazza, and the void around it is manifested in the construction of this new civil building. It is deprived of the rhetoric and instead forms a strong connection to the transformation of the city center.
The formal image is already lost due to numerous fortuitous and in fortuitous tampering of its urban morphology. Yet the place remains a memorable image and has been recomposed through the restoration of its surviving monuments and its "Milanesità" characteristics, or those qualities typical to Milan, that emanate from its building fabric and its relationship with the materials. The materiality of the architecture in general is particularly Milanese. The permanent character is testimony not only to fashion [...]
