Fondazione Prada Tower, Milan

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The new home of Fondazione Prada in Milan, inaugurated in 2015 after the renovation of seven structures of the old distillery – warehouses, laboratories, and brewing silos; and the construction of two new ones – a glazed exhibition hall and a mirror-clad cinema –, has been completed with a last and iconic volume: a white concrete tower, 60 meters tall, located in the northwest end of the complex. The new building extends the already broad repertoire of exhibition experiences that together define the architectural vision of the foundation, characterized by a huge variety of oppositions and fragments. Each one of the nine floors that compose the construction contributed to creating a radical diversity within a simple volume thanks to the specific combination of three special parameters. First, the geometry, alternating rectangular blocks with other trapezoidal ones; second, the free floor-to-ceiling height, increasing from 2.7 meters the first to 8 meters the last; and third, the variable lighting depending on the orientation of the voids (north, east, and west). The southern side of the tower presents a diagonal structure that connects it to the Deposito, with a panoramic elevator... [+]

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• Arquitectura Viva