Torre Velasca

high-rise building

B.B.P.R. (architecture)
Ernesto N. Rogers (architecture)
Enrico Peresutti (architecture)
Ludovico Barbiano di Belgiojoso (architecture)
Gian Luigi Banfi (architecture)

• Italy

  Staat

  Lombardy

  state (first-order administrative division)

  Milan MI

  province

  Milan

  city

  Piazza Velasca 5

  street

period	description
1956–1958	planning and construction period

• 27 storeys
• apartment
• cantilever
• metaphor: peel tower
• office building
• shop
• historical reference
• flat
• high-rise building
• reinforced concrete skeleton-frame structure
• living

• Casabella, 1959,232
  
• article in: Guida all'architettura italiana del Novecento
  S. Polano
  Electa; 1991
  page 142
  
• article in: Exkursionsführer Oberitalien 1995, Wahlfachseminar Architektur und Mobiliar
  Institut für Gebäudelehre und Entwerfen Prof. Jo Coenen, UNI Karlsruhe Bernd Wensch
  Eigenverlag; 1995
  page 24–27
  
• Torre Velasca [Milan, Italy], 1958
  in: A+U: extra edition, 12/1991
  page 197–206
  
• A flight from Functionalism
  in: RIBA Journal, 12/1958
  R. Gardner-Medwin
  
• Modern tower in old Milan
  in: Architectural Forum, 2/1958
  G. M. Kallmann
  
• article in: L'Archittetura, cronache e storia, 1959,40
  G. Samonà
  
• article in: Zodiac, 1957,1
  P. C. Santini
  
• article in: db: Höher als breit, 7/1993
  page 96ff
  

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