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((Infobox building
|name               = Torre Velasca
|image              = Milano Italy Torre-Velasca-from-Duomo-01.jpg
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|caption            = Torre Velasca seen from the roof of Duomo
|location           = [[Milan]], [[Italy]] 
|coordinates        = ((coord|45|27|36|N|9|11|26|E|region:IT|display=inline,title))
|start_date         = 1956<ref name="Stella2011">((cite news|last1=Stella|first1=Armando|title=La soprintendenza mette il «vincolo» sulla Torre Velasca|url=http://milano.corriere.it/milano/notizie/cronaca/11_novembre_18/soprintendenza-vincolo-torre-velasca-1902215878299.shtml?refresh_ce-cp|accessdate=1 October 2017|work=[[Corriere della Sera]]|date=18 November 2011 |language=it |trans-title=Superintendent protects the Velasca Tower))</ref>
|completion_date    = 1958<ref name=Stella2011/>
|status             = Complete
|antenna_spire      = ((convert|98|m|ft|0|abbr=on))
|roof               = 
|top_floor          = ((convert|75|m|ft|0|abbr=on))
|floor_count        = 26<ref name=hp-org>((cite web|title=Torre Velasca|url=http://housingprototypes.org/project?File_No=ITA022|publisher=Housing Prototypes|accessdate=13 November 2011))</ref> 
|opening            = 
|floor_area         = 
|architect          = [[BBPR]]
|developer          = 
|main_contractor    = [[Società Generale Immobiliare]]
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The '''Torre Velasca''' (''Velasca Tower'', in [[English language|English]]) is a [[skyscraper]] built in the 1950s by the [[BBPR]] architectural partnership, in [[Milan]], [[Italy]].
The tower is part of the first generation of Italian modern architecture, while still being part of the Milanese context in which it was born, to which also belongs the [[Milan Cathedral]] and the [[Sforza Castle]].<ref>In 1957, ''LIFE'' magazine said, "Pointing to the eight-story overhang, reminiscent of Lombardy castles, [one of its architects] described the building as 'a sort of medieval nostalgia.'" - ''LIFE'', [https://books.google.com/books?id=j1YEAAAAMBAJ&dq=life+magazine+1957&pg=PA120 "Skyscraper in Milan"] 2 December 1957, p. 120</ref>

The tower, ((convert|98|m|ft)) tall antenna spire 23 m the heightroof is 75 metres, 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 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 Italian [[medieval]] [[castle]].<ref name=archdaily>((cite web|title=AD Classics: Torre Velasca / BBPR|url=http://www.archdaily.com/155121/ad-classics-torre-velasca-bbpr/|publisher=ArchDaily|accessdate=13 November 2011))</ref> 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 being the mixed functions of residential and commercial use.

The tower is located in the city centre of Milan, Italy, 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 (Milan Metro)|Missori]] [[Line M3 - Milan Subway (Metropolitana di Milano)|metro]] station is located right in front of it.

In 2011, the tower was placed under protection as a historic building.<ref name="Stella2011" />

==Gallery==
<gallery mode=packed>
Paolo Monti - Servizio fotografico (Milano, 1956) - BEIC 6365505.jpg|Details of the [[scaffold]]s 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
</gallery>

==See also==
*[[List of buildings in Milan]]

==References==
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[[Category:Office buildings completed in 1958]]
[[Category:Residential buildings completed in 1958]]
[[Category:Skyscrapers in Milan]]
[[Category:Brutalist architecture in Italy]]
[[Category:Modernist architecture in Italy]]
[[Category:Residential buildings in Italy]]
[[Category:Skyscraper office buildings in Milan]]

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