TORRE VELSCA Print

113-TORRE VELASCA. 50X36. Acquerello su carta. A. I was lucky to be invited on the roof of a colleague and friend’s home to portrait the TORRE VELASCA by a very unique angle! So that’s what I did… and I get sun tanned too without going on the beach. ;-) What could you ask more from life? Two words on the tower. This particular building it is not due to the mistake of the builders who got the wrong side and built it upside down. In fact it is a very clever and brave project by BBPR who were appointed to build a tower in the void spot left by the angloamerican bombing of 1943 during world war II . Since the homonym square was narrow, they decided to start occupying the minimum space and to enlarge the last floors augmenting the plans’ surface. They said that it was a modern re-interpretation of the Filarete tower in Castello Sforzesco. The strange building thogh has divided critics in two: the ones who consider it an architectural masterpiece and the ones who just hate it. I do not know what to think by myself, but looking at it closely I find very powerful and elegantly solved the static problem of enlarging the top to the sky. The inclination of the pillar to the exterior of the building is very well designed and I like the diagonal support of the beams which creates static triangles with the volume of the building. Also the imposts where the sloping pillars lean against are very knit and almost delicate. So what it strikes me is the contrast we can find frome the powerful image of this strange, brutalist and bad proportioned concrete machine and the sophisticated design of its static solution which make me think about the braveness and the creative insight of their architects who succeeded in doing something which represents Milano’s spirit of innovation.

Print:Giclee on Fine Art Paper

Size:9 W x 12 H x 0.1 D in

Size with Frame:14.25 W x 17.25 H x 1.2 D in

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