In Milan, as in most other Italian cities, it is enough to just take a look around you to discover something you’d never noticed before: it happens to me often when I step out of my gallery in via Montebello.
Although this part of the city has its fair share of older architecture, its overall character is distinctly modern. Between via Turati and via della Moscova, to take one example, you find Giovanni Muzio’s
A short walk away, in corso di Porta Nuova, you find the Angelicum, another Muzio design, all in red brick and very similar to the architect’s Palazzo della Triennale. The building’s various blocks are connected by pilasters topped by round arches, a motif typical of Italian architecture from this period, one example being EUR in Rome, and evoked in Giorgio de Chirico’s
Gio Ponti also
Sometimes, if traffic permits, it is worth looking up – you really won’t regret it!