Torre Velasca [SEP] architect
Torre Velasca
The Torre Velasca ("Velasca Tower", in English) is a skyscraper built in the 1950s by the BBPR architectural partnership, in Milan, Italy.
Architects.
"BBPR" is an acronym from the name of its designers: Gian Luigi Banfi, Lodovico Barbiano di Belgiojoso, Enrico Peressutti and Ernesto Nathan Rogers. At the time of the construction of the Torre Velasca, Banfi was already dead (in 1945 in an Internment camp in Gusen).
Description.
The "Velasca Tower
1938: E42 Post Office
- 1946: Monument to victims in German concentration camps, Milan
- 1951: American Pavilion, Milan Triennale
- 1958: Torre Velasca, Milan
References.
- Fiori Leonardo, Pizzon Massimo (a cura di): "B.B.P.R. La Torre Velasca", Abitare Segesta, 1982.
- Piva Antonio (a cura di): "B.B.P.R. a Milano", Electa, 1982.
- Società generale immobiliare: "Torre Velasca, 26 piani, 800 locali",