General Information
Project Type
| Function / usage: |
Apartment building Office building |
|---|---|
| Material: |
Reinforced concrete structure |
Location
| Location: |
Milan, Milano, Lombardy, Italy |
|---|---|
| Address: | Piazza Velasca 5 |
| Coordinates: | 45° 27' 36" N 9° 11' 27" E |
Technical Information
Dimensions
| height | 106 m | |
| number of floors (above ground) | 26 |
Materials
| building structure |
reinforced concrete
|
|---|
Excerpt from Wikipedia
The Torre Velasca (Velasca Tower, in English) is a skyscraper built in the 1950s by the BBPR architectural partnership, in Milan, Italy.
Architects
BBPR is an acronym from the name of its designers: Gian Luigi Banfi, Lodovico Barbiano di Belgiojoso, Enrico Peressutti and Ernesto Nathan Rogers. At the time of the construction of the Torre Velasca, Banfi was already dead (in 1945 in an Internment camp in Gusen).
Description
Details of the scaffolds and armor of the concrete during construction, photographed by Paolo Monti in 1956. The Torre Velasca photographed by Paolo Monti in 1973
The Velasca Tower is part of the first generation of Italian modern architecture, while still being part of the Milanese context in which it was born, to which also belongs the Milan Cathedral and the Sforza Castle.
The tower, approximately 100 metres tall, has a peculiar and characteristic mushroom-like shape.
It stands out in the city skyline, made of domes, buildings and other towers. Its structure recalls the Lombard tradition, made of medieval fortresses and towers, each having a massive profile. In such fortresses, the lower parts were always narrower, while the higher parts propped up by wooden boards or stone beams.
As a consequence, the shape of this building is the result of a modern interpretation of the typical Italian medieval castle. At the same time, BBPR in this building satisfied the functional needs of space: narrower surfaces on the ground, wider and more spacious ones on the top floors.
The town planning laws, then, imposed specific volumes (depending on the buildings' purpose); in this tower, the latter being the mixed functions of residential and commercial use.
In 2011, the tower was placed under protection as a historic building.
Urban context
The tower is located in the city centre of Milan, Italy, near the Duomo (Milan Cathedral) and the headquarters of the University of Milan, between the streets "corso di Porta Romana" and "via Larga". One of the exits of the Missori metro station is located right in front of it.
Text imported from Wikipedia article "Torre Velasca" and modified on July 23, 2019 according to the CC-BY-SA 4.0 International license.
Participants
- Banfi, Belgiojoso, Peressutti, Rogers
- Lodovico Barbiano di Belgiojoso (architect)
- Enrico Peressutti (architect)
- Ernesto Nathan Rogers (architect)
- Arturo Danusso (structural engineer)
Relevant Web Sites
Relevant Publications
- (2016): Corrosion assessment of reinforced concrete elements of Torre Velasca in Milan. In: Case Studies in Construction Materials, v. 4 (June 2016), pp. 55-61.
- About this
data sheet - Structure-ID
20011661 - Published on:
23/03/2004 - Last updated on:
29/07/2014
