This exposition was born from the intention to make visible the hidden part of Milan. At the “Triennale” it is told through a wide selection of unrealized projects of Milan, what the city could have been if everything had gone as it should go during the three great historical stages of its transformation: the nineteenth-century “Piano Beruto” with the axis of Via Dante, the area of “Castello Sforzesco” and new neighborhoods; the Master Plan of Cesare Albertini in the thirties with the first skyscrapers of Piazza San Babila, the axis of the station, Piazza Diaz and the first Fair, the Milan green rationalists; the great reconstruction in the years of the economic miracle with the vision of the open city, the administrative center and the conquest of the suburbs, up to large construction projects over the last twenty years.
A series of architectural sketches really fascinating:
“Concorso per il piano regolatore e di ampliamento di Milano (1926-27), Piero Portaluppi e Marco Semenza, Progetto Ciò per amor. La nuova sistemazione della città monumentale: dal Duomo a Porta Romanapiazza sulla trasversale Nuova Stazione-Porta Venezia”
“Luciano Baldessari, Progetto per San Babila, 1936-37”
“Aldo Andreani, veduta della “nuova” piazza S. Babila, metà anni Trenta”
“Luciano Baldessari, Concorso per la Fontana del Risparmio in piazza Garibaldi, 1961-62”
“Renzo Zavanella e Lucio Fontana, Progetto di concorso per il Monumento alla Vittoria d’Africa in piazzale Fiume, 1937”
“Giuseppe de Finetti, La Strada Lombarda, 1946.
“Renzo Piano e Claudio Abbado, Progetto 90.000 alberi a Milano, proposta per piazza del Duomo, 2010”
“Steven Holl, Porta Vittoria Park and Botanical Gardens, 1986”
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