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Edificio per uffici di Piazza Meda
Piazza Filipo MedaAbout
In 1958 after the construction of the Torre Velasca the BBPR group (Banfi, Belgojoso, Peressutti and Rogers)planned an office building between Via Hoepli and Via Catena which look over Piazza Meda. Finished in 1968, with the collaboration of Luigi Caccia Dominioni, who planned the structure facing the church of San Fidele, the building continues the high porticos of Via Hoepli and by way of a large circular structure (from which it gets the name 'panettone', a link is formed with the neighbouring renaissance apse. The clear contrast in scale between the portico and the openings above, and the circular structure, which has reinforced concrete on the inside and metal and glass on the outside is in dialogue with the surrounding architecture, giving rise to the term architectural 'contextualism' which has made the Torre Velasca such a famous and controversial work of architecture.
