Fondazione Giangiacomo Feltrinelli

It took ten years – from conception, design and development to execution – to achieve this transferred volume that accompanies the complexity of the beholders’ gaze, challenges the perspective and forces them to a shift in perception. Nothing round in the long transparent blade, unitary but separated – an intake of breath in the sequence, and then again spurs, jolts, edges. Ideal place for knowledge, relations and citizenship, and the architecture could really not have been more in tune with the spirit of the age, with the history and vocation of the Feltrinelli publishing house and the role that the Foundation is called upon to interpret in the common ground of cultures, in this most international of Italian cities, among the finest and most dynamic on the European continent. A manifesto in architecture, a sign, an antenna that intercepts and emits into the landscape of innovation and meanings, radiating over Milan. Icon of that intelligent landscape that has given rise to an infrastructure of multicultural knowledge, like a driver of development, to a network of dynamic and proactive public and private institutions, and to an ideal promenade architecturale that wends its way among the urban regeneration projects. These involve Milano Garibaldi and Porta Nuova, the tertiary buildings and the residential towers of the archistars and they stretch into the Largo Isarco area, at the heart of a map that redesigns the pedestrian routes through the public space even before redesigning its skyline.