Adriana Flores Sketchbook Travel Notes Milan

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Places to Visit: O O tori O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O

Mondadori Editorial Banca Popolare di Lodi y AudiBarrio Gallaratesse Bosco Verticale Castelo Sforzesco City life Milano Duomo di Milano Bergognone 53 Il sole 24 ore Feltrinelli Porta Volta Feria di Milano Fondazione Prada Galleria Vittorio Enmanuele Giorgio Armani Store Metropol BMW offices HQ Dolce Gabbana central offices Pirelli Real State HQ Santa Maria Presso San Satiro Santa Maria delle Grazie Giorgio Armani Theatre Arcimboldi Theatre Della Scala Theatre Pirelli Tower Luigi Bocconi University

Google street view has become my best travel partner this year.....

Also I found the Nomada app, that’s an architectural travel guide who helped me a lot to discover buildings from amazing architects I listed in my travel plan.

Mondadori Editorial’s Headquarters

Architect: Oscar Niemeyer Location: Milano, Lombardía, It alia

Year of construction: 1968-1975

I can’t deny the similarity with the Justice Palace in Brasilia, also from Niemeyer in Brasilia.

I visited it in 2011 and the atmospheric feeling the water creates is amazing.

Also how he makes the buildings “f loat in the water”.

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Next to a lake of 20,000 square mete rs, the main building of the editorial headquarte rs stands out, a prism atic body that hang s from the porticoed stru cture with arches of different lights that cr eate an irregular rhythm on the facades.

Inside, two vertica l circulation nect the four open -plan levels building surface is divided, plus and the roof. The use of colors gives identity to ea ch area.

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In the lowest volum e, at one end, the re is the dining room, the bar and the shops , and at the other the wr iting room, with a fre er shape is divided int o two fflloors that suggest the emptyness of an Italian “piazza ”.

Banco BPM Bipielle City and Auditorium

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Architect: Renzo Piano

Location: Via Polenghi Lombardo, 13, Lodi Year of construction: 1991 - 2001

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Architect: Aldo Rossi and Carlo Aymonino

Location: Via Cilea y via Enrico Falck Year of construction: 1967 - 1974

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Bosco Verticale

Architect: Boeri Studio

Location: 20124 Milano MI Year of construction: 2014

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The Vertical Forest is the prototype building for a new format of arc hitectural biodiversity which focuses not only on human beings but als o on the relationship be tween humans and oth er living species. The f irs t example, built in Mil an in the Porta Nuova are a, consists of two tower s that are respectively 80 and 112 metres hig h, housing a total of 800 trees (480fif irst and second stage trees, 30 0 smaller ones, 15,000 perennials and/or gro und covering plants an d 5,000 shrubs, providing an amount of vegetat ion equivalent to 30,000 squ are metres of woodland and undergrowth, conce ntrated on 3,000 square metres of urban surfac e.

Castelo Sforzesco

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The original construction was ordered by local lord Galeazzo II Vis conti in 1358–c. 1370; this castle was known as Ca stello di Porta Giova (or Porta Zubia), from the name of a gate in wa lls located nearby. His suc cessors Gian Galeazz o, Giovanni Maria and Fili ppo Maria Visconti en lar ged it, until it became a square-plan castle wit h 200 m-long sides, four tower s at the corners and up to 7-metre-thick walls.

The castle was the ma in residence in the city of its Visconti lords, an d was destroyed by the short-lived Golden Am brosian Republic which hou sted them in 1447.

Builder: Francesco Sforza, Du ke of

Milan

Location: Piazza Castello Year of construction: 1368 General Ticket: 10 â‚Ź

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In 1450, Francesco Sf orza, once he shattere d the republicans, began reconstruction of the castle to turn it into his princely residence . In 1452 he hired sculptor and architect Filarete to design and decorate the central tower, whi ch is still known as Torre de l Filarete.

Duomo di Milano

Builder: Antonio da Saluzzo Location: Piazza del Duomo

Year of construction: 1386 General Ticket: 8 €

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1. The Duomo is the lar gest Gothic Church in the world and the largest church in Italy 2. What makes the Du omo not only a church but also a cathedral, is the fact that it is home to the archbishop of Milan, currently Ar chbishop Mario Delpini.

3. Besides being the official home to the arc hdiocese of Milan, the Duomo hosts an astonishing number of statues and gargoyles. The offi cial Duomo website sta tes that 3,400 statues, plus ove r 700 marble figures, sta nd all over the cathedral.

4. Among the thousand s of statues, some are naturally images of saints and figu res from the history of Christianity, but some others are rather peculiar: sire ns with double-ended fishtails, the portrait of boxer ath let e Primo Carnera, and the face of Benito Mussolini are just a few worth search ing around.

5. But among all 3,400 statues, the Duomo’s and arguably the city’s - mo st revered figure is the golden representation of Ma ry, endearingly called the Madonnina (Little Madonna) .

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Il Sole 24 ore HQ

Architect: Renzo Piano

Location: Via Monte Rosa, 91 Year of construction: 2004

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A pre-existing industria l building was restored and converted to be the new headquarters of the Italian ffiinancial daily newspaper “Il So le 24 Ore�.

By demolishing the str eet facade of the ori ginal square building, a south-facing opening wa s created. The new build ing is U-shaped, with a vast central garden, a green hill hiding sub terranean parking under neath.

Bright-green sun-shading blinds on the outside of the glass facade an imate the exterior.

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Feltrinelli porta volta

Architect: Herzog & de Meuron

Year of construction: 2016

5 years ago I visited this building to acreditate

myself to Expo Milano 2015, and I had no clue

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Architect: OMA Location: Largo Isarco, 2 Year of construction: 2015 Ticket: 10 €

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Metropol

Carlos Cruz-Diez 1991 Fisicromía double faced for Madrid used as a reference in the facade.

French-Venezuelan artist Carlos Cruz-Diez (Caracas, 1923 - Paris,

2019) lived and worked in Paris since 1960. A major protagonist in the ffiield of Kinetic and Optical Art, a

movement that encourages “an awareness of the instability of reality”*,

his body of work established him as one of the key 20th century thinkers

in the realm of color.

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Architect: Piuarch Location: Viale Piave, 22 Year of construction: 2005

Palestro

Dolce&Gabbana’s multifunctional space in the heart of Milan occupies the former Metropol movie theatre. The ori ginal building, which da tes from the 1940s, has be en completely restructured and expanded by about 1,000 square metres in order to ac commodate an event hall and several confe rence rooms which, tog ether with the existing building, cover an are a of 3.500 square metres.

The large illuminated sign of the Metropol cinema has been conse rved, while the façcade itself was substantially rebuilt, endowing the new building with a pa rticularly striking aspec t.

The facing, realized wit h steel strips that twi st along the vertical axis, gives a kinetic effect to the building, in that the façcbvade change s appearance depending on the viewer’s position

BMW Italia Headquarters Building

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Architect: Kengo Tange

Location: San Donato Milanese Year of construction: 1996 - 1998

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It is an excellent ex ample of symbiotic re lationship between gla ss technology and research and developme nt demonstrated in the construction where the stringent specification required the building to reflect the company ’s corporate characteris tics, state of the art technology and aesthetic appeal.

This meant that no sup port structure could be visible below a height of 3.5 m, with the glass unimpaired by tinting to allow uninterrupted and clear views of the cars inside.

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Pirelli Real Estate Headquarters

My favorite discovery!!!

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It’s really amazing!!!

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Architect: Gregotti Associati In ternational Location: Via Bicocca degli Arcim boldi, 3 Year of construction: 2007

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Giorgio Armani Theatre

Architect: Tadao Ando

Location: Via Bergognone, 59 Year of construction: 2001 Ticket: Free!!!!! :D As seen on the world wide web

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Pirelli Tower

Gio Ponti, the creator of “made in Italy”

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Ponti’s slim, 33-story structure appears to shoot up from the gro und like a missile, towering over its low-rise context. Centrally locate d on the project site, the tower is pushed away from the streets. He consid ered this to be advantageous from an urban planning perspective: a high de nsity building with a small footprint provid ed additional space for traffic and par king while bringing more ventilation, dayligh t, and space to the surrounding streets.

Architect: Gio Ponti, Pier Luigi Ne rvi

Location: Via Fabio Filzi, 22

Year of construction: 1958

He has a couple of projects in my hometown (Caracas), two houses very impressive with amazing views of the main mountain, and with an impressive design.

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UNIVERSITY LUIGI BOCCONI I feel very impressed by this project, how the archite cts played with forms and ligh ts and the concrete in every detail.

It reminds me a litt le bit what used to be my “Alma mater�, the Central University of Venezuela.

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Architect: GRAFTON ARCHITEC TS

Location: Via Roberto Sarfatti, 25

Year of construction: 2008

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The idea was to make two worlds, one hovering over the other, wit h the space of the city flowing between.

We took the public space of the through the building bringing with it the stone floor of Milan.This opens the university to the life of the city. The building feels like a cit y in miniature.

At the most public cor ner we made a ‘window’ to Mila. The aula magna occupies this corner asserting a sym bolic presence and a register of the pre stigious status of the University. The widened pavement forms a new urban space, whic h reaches out to the city and beckons the visitor into the heart

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With the present work, I’m pretending to elaborate a digital sketchbook of what would ideally be my trip to Milan.

Exactly 5 years ago it was my first and last visit to the city, coinciding with the EXPO Milan 2015, but I really didn’t have the time to visit all the spaces I wanted in the city since the Expo consumed me every day of the week.

As I always do every time I organize a trip (which I really enjoy), I did a little research in tourist guides of the interesting buildings and spaces to visit, and after that I made the selection of buildings that I found most interesting.

I was really surprised a lot by the number of buildings of highly recognized architects that exist in Milan and that I had no idea that they existed. So this little trip through google street view has opened my eyes a lot.

Doing a little research on each building and its architects, I discovered construction details, spatial solutions, or finishes that have been very interesting to me. Coincidentally

I found an app within my research, which is like a “tourist” guide for architects, which has really come in handy for discovering buildings that are not normally listed in online tourist guides.

Definitely, my favorite project is the Pirelli Real State HQ. The way the architect resolved to adapt the old factory as a key element of the project and incorporate it in an architectural way has seemed extraordinary to me, especially from what I’ve been able to see in photos, how he incorporates it, and is visible 24 hours a day it’s really beautiful and amazing.

Hopefully, soon I will be able to visit the city and live the experience of viewing in person all these great works unknown to me so far.

I hope i’ll be there very soon...