Torre Velasca
title: "Torre Velasca" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["office-buildings-completed-in-1958", "residential-buildings-completed-in-1958", "skyscrapers-in-milan", "brutalist-architecture-in-italy", "modernist-architecture-in-italy", "residential-buildings-in-italy", "skyscraper-office-buildings-in-milan"] topic_path: "arts" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torre_Velasca" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | Torre Velasca |
| image | Milano Italy Torre-Velasca-from-Duomo-01.jpg |
| caption | Torre Velasca seen from the roof of Duomo |
| location | Milan, Italy |
| coordinates | |
| start_date | 1956 |
| completion_date | 1958 |
| status | Complete |
| antenna_spire | 98 m |
| top_floor | 75 m |
| floor_count | 26 |
| architect | BBPR |
| main_contractor | Società Generale Immobiliare |
| :: |
|name = Torre Velasca |image = Milano Italy Torre-Velasca-from-Duomo-01.jpg |image_size = |caption = Torre Velasca seen from the roof of Duomo |location = Milan, Italy |coordinates = |start_date = 1956 |completion_date = 1958 |status = Complete |antenna_spire = 98 m |roof = |top_floor = 75 m |floor_count = 26 |opening = |floor_area = |architect = BBPR |developer = |main_contractor = Società Generale Immobiliare The **** ("Velasca Tower") is a skyscraper built in the 1950s by the BBPR architectural partnership, in Milan, Italy. The tower has 26 stories.
The tower, measuring 75 m in height to the roof with an additional 23 m antenna spire (total 98 m), 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 were propped up by wood or stone beams. As a consequence, the shape of this building is the result of a modern interpretation of the typical medieval Italian 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 were the mixed functions of residential and commercial use.
The tower is located in the city centre of Milan, 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, on line 3, is located right in front of it.
In 2011, the tower was placed under protection as a historic building.
Gallery
Paolo Monti - Servizio fotografico (Milano, 1956) - BEIC 6365505.jpg|Details of the scaffolds and armor of the concrete during construction in 1956 Paolo Monti - Servizio fotografico - BEIC 6365460.jpg|The tower during construction, seen from the Duomo of Milan Paolo Monti - Servizio fotografico - BEIC 6338773.jpg|The tower during construction, seen from the Duomo of Milan Paolo Monti - Servizio fotografico - BEIC 6338771.jpg|The tower seen from below Paolo Monti - Servizio fotografico - BEIC 6338812.jpg|Upper floors Paolo Monti - Servizio fotografico - BEIC 6338828.jpg Paolo Monti - Servizio fotografico - BEIC 6338756.jpg|The Torre Velasca photographed by Paolo Monti in 1973
References
References
- (18 November 2011). "La soprintendenza mette il «vincolo» sulla Torre Velasca". [[Corriere della Sera]].
- "Torre Velasca". Housing Prototypes.
- (2 December 1957). "Skyscraper in Milan".
- (14 August 2011). "AD Classics: Torre Velasca / BBPR". ArchDaily.
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