Top 12 Must-See Architectural Projects in Milan

Milan is known as the world’s fashion city, and it serves as Italy’s economic center thanks to several major events and fairs, including Milan Fashion Week and the Milan Furniture Fair, which are currently among the largest in terms of revenue and visitors. This Italian city is not only a fashion icon, but it also boasts architectural projects in Milan that even the most casual visitor may admire.

During the twentieth century, in the early decades, and after World War II, architectural projects in Milan played an important role in Italian and international architecture thanks to the work of Giuseppe Terragni, Gio Ponti, BBPR, Caccia Dominioniand, and Aldo Rossi, who identified a specific “style Milano”.

Architectural projects in Milan has undergone incredible development during the last decade, aided by the 2015 World Expo. The best-known Italian and international architects have worked on two large urban regeneration projects, Porta Nuova and City Life, as well as particular interventions like the Vertical Forest, Fondazione Prada, Feltrinelli, Bocconi University, and Mudec.

 

Top 12 Must-See Architectural Projects in Milan

Here is a list of the top 12 must-see architectural projects in Milan you must know about in 2025:

 

1. Gallaratese Quarter

• Architects: Aldo Rossi + Carlo Aymonino

As the dust cleared after World War II, much of Europe faced a chronic housing shortage. In response to the issue, a series of plans were developed in Milan, planning out satellite cities for the northern Italian city with populations ranging from 50,000 to 130,000. Construction on the first of these communities began in 1946, one year after the conclusion of the war; ten years later, in 1956, the acceptance of Il Piano Regolatore Generale—a new master plan—paved the way for the development of the second, known as ‘Gallaratese’.

The new community’s site was divided into portions 1 and 2, with the latter owned by the Monte Amiata Società Mineraria for Azioni. When the plan permitted for the private development of Gallaratese 2 in late 1967, Studio Ayde and, in particular, its partner Carlo Aymonino received the project commission. Two months later, Aymonino invited Aldo Rossi to design a building for the complex, and the two Italians began to realize their ideals for the ideal microcosmic community.

By the time they began work on the new development, Aymonino and Rossi had established themselves as experts in urban studies and morphology. Their focus was not on individual architecture, but on metropolitan communities that included all of the elements necessary for a functioning society: dwellings, commerce, industry, and so on. Gallaratese, then, would be their opportunity to blend these components and build a new community from the start.

Aymonino and Rossi’s design, officially named Monte Amiata Housing after its landowners, sparked immediate controversy and debate when it was completed in 1972. Under pressure from Communist League groups, the complex was converted into homeless housing, but the consequences were so disastrous that all of the inhabitants had left by 1974. This architectural project in Milan, on the other hand, has risen from the ashes and is flourishing under its current occupancy. The ideas of urban planning have changed dramatically since Aymonino and Rossi began work in 1967; nonetheless, despite the passage of time, this architectural project in Milan remains the vibrant village that its architects so excitedly envisioned.

 

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2. Bosco Verticale

• Architects: Boeri Studio
• Year: 2014

The first ‘Vertical Forest’ (el Bosco Verticale) was opened in October 2014 in Milan’s Porta Nuova Isola neighborhood as part of a larger renovation project coordinated by Hines Italia. Milan’s Vertical Forest consists of two 80- and 112-meter-tall towers that house 480 large and medium trees, 300 small trees, 11,000 perennial and covering plants, and 5,000 shrubs. The equivalent of 20,000 m2 of forest and undergrowth spread on a 1,500 m2 urban surface.

The Vertical Forest is an architectural concept that substitutes standard materials on urban surfaces with the changing polychromy of leaves as walls. The biological architect relies on a vegetation screen to generate a suitable microclimate and filter sunlight, while rejecting the narrow technological and mechanical approaches to environmental sustainability. This architectural project in Milan promotes biodiversity. It encourages the development of an urban ecosystem in which various plant kinds produce a distinct vertical environment that fits within the existing network and can be inhabited by birds and insects (with an early estimate of 1,600 birds and butterflies). In this sense, it serves as a natural component for repopulating the city’s vegetation and fauna.

This architectural project in Milan serves to create a microclimate and filter tiny particles in the urban environment. The diversity of plants contributes to the formation of the microclimate, which produces humidity, absorbs CO2 and particles, produces oxygen, and defends against radiation and noise pollution. The Vertical Forest is an anti-sprawl strategy that aims to manage and limit urban expansion. In terms of urban density, each tower is equivalent to a 50,000-square-meter surrounding region of single-family homes and structures.

Three years of research, in collaboration with a group of botanists and ethologists, resulted in the selection of species and their distribution based on façade orientation and height. The plants utilized on the building were pre-cultivated at a nursery to become used to the circumstances that they will encounter on the balconies. This architectural project in Milan is a constantly changing city landmark, with colors changing depending on the season and the many plant species used. This gives Milan’s residents an ever-changing vision of the city.

 

3. Residence Carlo Erba

• Architects: AZstudio, Degli Esposti Architetti, Eisenman Architects
• Area: 14000 m²
• Year: 2019

For a triangular site bounded by nondescript buildings, this architectural project in Milan attempts to create a symbolic contemporary apartment building with the number of units required for commercial viability while responding to the context, particularly the adjacent public garden, by extending the garden onto the site. We created a series of horizontal bands piled with modest offsets to form four separate strata in the nine-story building, limited only by the height limit imposed by municipal rules.

The first three storeys form a foundation course akin to medieval urban palazzi, with travertine veneer and comparable-sized punched window apertures with inset balconies. The fourth level, or second layer, resembles a classic piano nobile in that it is set back from both the travertine foundation and the marble face above, and its glazing contrasts with the stone surfaces. The final layer, floors five and six, is articulated by enameled metal frames that form a horizontal strip along the façade.

These frames are located forward of the building’s real west face. On the east facade, they excavate the building’s mass using a carving lattice. The fourth and uppermost layer, floors seven through nine, is not a horizontal layer in the traditional sense, but rather a sequence of “urban villas” with enormous planting terraces, as evidenced by their stepped contour and volumetric mass. The entire ensemble of various layers slightly displaced off-center creates a dynamic look that, when combined with traditional materials and window apertures, distinguishes the project as being of Milan today.

This architectural project in Milan’s S-form was developed by a series of studies, as shown in schematics, which illustrate how it fits both program and zoning criteria while also incorporating an early twentieth-century classicist building on the site. This architectural project in Milan becomes a part of the condominium, as does its official entry. The public garden to the west now “ends” with the curve of the condominium’s west elevation.

 

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4. Fondazione Luigi Rovati

• Architects: Mario Cucinella Architects
• Area: 4000 m²
• Year: 2022

Mario Cucinella Architects finished a seven-year rehabilitation and reconstruction of Milan’s 19th-century Palazzo Bocconi-Rizzoli-Carraro for Fondazione Luigi Rovati. The Foundation’s Etruscan collection’s fully new underground galleries are the centerpiece of this magnificent contribution to the city’s cultural and civic life at 52 Corso Venezia. In addition to the Etruscan galleries, the Fondazione Luigi Rovati’s art museum features two floors of exhibition space, conservation facilities, an archive, a study room linked to the Luigi Rovati Foundation Library in Monza, event rooms, a bookshop, a café, and a restaurant on the top floor.

Two hundred highlights from the Foundation’s collection of ancient Etruscan artifacts are shown in bespoke cases designed by Mario Cucinella Architects among the limestone-lined passageways of the otherworldly rooms on the “Hypogeum Floor” directly beneath the palace. This architectural project in Milan includes cinerary urns, vases, jewelry, and bronzes, as well as the Cernuschi Warrior, a votive warrior god who lived in the late sixth to early fifth centuries BC. Works by contemporary artists such as Alberto Giacometti, Pablo Picasso, Arturo Martini, Lucio Fontana, and William Kentridge are displayed among antiques from two to three thousand years ago.

The form and materiality of the Hypogeum Floor, which consists of three circular and one elliptical domed “caverns,” are rooted in those of the Etruscan tombs of Cerveteri (in modern-day Lazio) and shaped by the physical characteristics of the quarries of Firenzuola, the Tuscan source of the blue-grey pietra forte fiorentina limestone inset with sparkling mica flakes that arranged in overlapping strata defines the architecture of Etruscan tombs and the 21st-century galleries.

The Foundation’s street-level entrance hall connects to the Hypogeum Floor via a strange stone stairway. This area features a ticket office, café bistro, and bookshop, as well as access to a courtyard garden designed by Greencure Marilena Baggio Studio (Milan) to highlight this architectural project in Milan’s dome silhouette. The Luigi Rovati Foundation’s offices are located on the mezzanine level.

 

5. Bibilioteca degli Alberi Park

• Landscape Architects: Inside Outside Architecture
• Year: 2018

Since World War II, the park has been an uncultivated brownfield, used for the storage of building materials, temporary events, and the yearly circus – essentially in disarray. The soil at Garibaldi Station, surrounded by bustling traffic, became significantly polluted over time.

The City of Milan held four competitions to bring this area back to life, but no proposal was ever completed. Until the Inside Outside Team appeared in 2003 and, starting in 2009, insisted on building the winning park design this time! The Comunne di Milano became our commissioner, followed by developer Manfredi Catella.

This architectural project in Milan the “Biblioteca degli Alberi” (Library of Trees) is a new type of public park that serves as an urban link, cultural campus, sports field, botanical garden, and a permeable layer over critical underground infrastructure nodes all in one. The park was created in conjunction with Michael Maltzan, Mirko Zardini, Piet Oudolf, Irma Boom, and Studio Giorgetta.

This architectural project in Milan contains a collection of 23 different tree species, each arranged in circular patterns – known as Circular Forests – and dispersed around the area. Each tree is explained and labeled in text embedded in the path that leads to it.

Tree circles will mature and develop foliage roofs to form’vegetal pavilions’ with a range of sports, recreation, and relaxation equipment; spatial constructions that provide shaded and sheltering rooms for a number of purposes. Straight paths are traced around the park to connect points of interest and adjacent areas, resulting in a polycentric, grid-like network.

This ‘network of walkways’ forms a patchwork of irregular fields, resulting in a variety of garden typologies. The planting in the various fields is carefully chosen to create a dynamic and biodiverse habitat that changes with the seasons, in addition to the biological pond and trees. We developed a unique, curtain-like fence for the park area surrounding Fondazione Catella, allowing the park’s structure to remain intact. Because the park is mostly a ‘roof garden’, trees and garden typologies are purposefully positioned to ensure their longevity.

This architectural project in Milan is intended to serve as an important interface and connector between the various neighboring districts, including municipal offices, critical public transportation hubs, commercial areas, and bustling streets, as well as peaceful residential sections like the ‘Quartiere Isola’. Its redevelopment has included critical infrastructural linkages that allow for smoother traffic flow and effective pedestrian connectivity. One of the main roads that was previously next to the park now passes beneath it, resulting in greatly reduced traffic noise.

The park’s preparation and realization took a decade; because of the design’s strategic quality – using simple ingredients with a clear spatial definition – it proved resilient and able to adjust to the various demands and adjustments without losing strength, retaining the essence of the original concept throughout.

 

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6. San Raffaele Hospital

• Architects: Mario Cucinella Architects
• Area: 40000 m²
• Year: 2021

An intrinsically humanistic approach to creating an energy-efficient healthcare environment. San Raffaele Hospital is a world-renowned model for combining scientific research, teaching, and clinical activities to produce a highly specialized emergency room (ER) in Milan and a pioneering 284-bed inpatient care facility of national significance in Italy.

The new 10-story structure for the university hospital was built by Mario Cucinella Architects and is part of a medical complex on the outskirts of Milan. Existing buildings come from the 1970s and 1980s and vary widely in architecture. There was also a need to construct a more cohesive urban world for this densely populated area.

Mario Cucinella Architects chose a building that exudes peace with its white curtain-walled ethereal appearance. It plays with daylight and shines magnificently at night thanks to its harmonious glazed elevations accented rhythmically with ceramic fins spanning 5 storeys.

This architectural project in Milan’s base is made of earthen-colored tiles, which form a pedestal that serves as a foundation for the layers that rise above. This single-story base has the largest ER in the country, as well as a surgical block with 20 operating theatres below ground level, including two of the most advanced neurosurgery units.

The louvered façade of this architectural project in Milan play an important role in decreasing heat gain by diluting the impact of direct sunshine. The ceramic louvers fluctuate in depth according on the sun’s path. The ceramic has also been designed to destroy smog particles while retaining heat, reducing energy use by 60%.

 

7. New Urban Campus for Bocconi University

• Architects: SANAA
• Area: 350000 m²
• Year: 2019

Bocconi campus’s new Urban Campus is built on a huge plot near Milan’s city center, adjacent to the existing campus. The proposal consists of many structures, each with their own program: the classroom and administration building (a series of interconnected cells), dormitories, and a recreation center. These buildings are located in a new park that is accessible to both university students and the general public.

The volumes that make up the classroom and administration building softly contact each other, allowing students and instructors to go from one cell to the next. Every floor has balconies around the periphery, which are shielded by an undulating metal mesh, creating a porous relationship with the city.

Each volume features an interior courtyard, as is customary in Milanese architecture, and is intended to have its own individual character while remaining part of a broader system. These are lined by porticos at ground level, providing quiet settings for mingling, studying, and gathering in the open air.

Once inside, this architectural project in Milan is porous and defined by a series of columns, transparent chambers, and trees. The park features its own courtyards, formed by a series of porticos that protect the garden walks from the heat and rain.

 

8. Mondadori Office Playground

• Architects: Carlo Ratti Associati, Italo Rota, Maestro Technologies
• Year: 2024

CRA, in cooperation with Generali Real Estate and publisher Mondadori Group, has transformed Oscar Niemeyer’s Palazzo Mondadori in Italy into a Playground Workspace. The idea of this architectural project in Milan proposes a dramatic remodeling of modern furniture with the goal of creating a fully changeable work space. CRA-Carlo Ratti Associati, an international design and innovation firm, has collaborated with the late Italo Rota (1953-2024) and Maestro Technologies on a refurbishment project for the Generali Real Estate-owned Palazzo Mondadori in Milan.

This architectural project in Milan is regarded as one of Oscar Niemeyer’s masterpieces, and it houses the headquarters of the Mondadori Group, the biggest Italian book publisher. CRA’s design honors the original design while integrating creative workplace ideas for the future. The initial phase of this architectural project in Milan involves more than 20,000 square meters, with a larger repair program for Niemeyer’s key European monument planned to follow.

The idea proposes a novel approach to reimagining modern furniture. CRA collaborated with Maestro Technology, the group’s most recent startup, to repair over 1300 units of the building’s original modular furniture. This classic postwar furniture from Swiss manufacturer USM has been carefully disassembled and reconstructed, using wood and generating new reconfigurable components.

These interventions include creating space for plants and smoothly integrating nature into the office environment. “To get us out of the comfort of our pajama Zoom calls, office spaces need to become more like playgrounds,” says Carlo Ratti, founder of CRA-Carlo Ratti Associati and curator of the Biennale Architettura 2025. “Forget the outdated cubicles that stifle innovation and interactions, as depicted in French director Jacques Tati’s ‘Playtime’ film. Exchanges in physical space are critical and benefit from a constantly changing environment. The area has been reinvented, with desks that enable casual encounters on all five floors of this architectural project in Milan.

 

9. PAN Bakery Milano

• Architects: studio wok
• Year: 2023

Japan and Milan met at a local pub. Pan’s architectural idea stems from the goal to create a physical and material representation of the location’s revolutionary format. This architectural project in Milan, a bakery, kitchen, and wine bar in the region, was founded by Japanese chef Yoji Tokuyoshi and Alice Yamada to democratize Japanese culture.

The primary purpose of this architectural project in Milan was to generate a close engagement with the region; broad chestnut wood windows with external jambs of galvanized sheets give the city a new, rugged, and valuable face. The massive windows extend the venue’s interiors outward, creating a hybrid “threshold space” between the home and the city.

Inside, the cladding is neutral and friendly, a container in which a few objects with strong personalities take center stage, such as the two counters that designate the bakery and bar. These two personalities are clearly delineated but still coexist in a fluid and natural way in the space: a long wooden bench extends internally down the wall towards the street, almost as if to unite the venue’s two rooms.

As soon as you walk in, the bread counter takes center stage, with its material anticipation visible on the outside seat. It is a little piece of architecture composed of green fiberglass grid panels that occupies the area and responds to natural light. Its color complements the delicate tone of the Noren, and the ceiling curtains create a suspended three-dimensional environment that is both continuous and ephemeral.

The bar area takes on more austere tones, with the counter’s black-stained chestnut wood and stainless steel inserts serving as the focal points. A cleft boulder in natural stone restores the material palette’s equilibrium, creating an almost spiritual mood while appreciating imperfect beauty and emphasizing the water-filling ritual.

 

10. Torre Velasca

• Architects: BBPR
• Year: 1958

This architectural project in Milan, which was intended to tower over its surroundings at approximately 1,000 meters, was a significant addition to Milan’s skyline. For this reason, it was critical that the architects, BBPR, find ways to integrate the design of the Torre Velasca, completed in 1958, with the classic architectural glories of old Milan.

The upper third of the structure, which protrudes from the lower levels, was intended to imitate medieval watchtowers. These defense towers were employed during wartime to safeguard Italian castles against invasion. By incorporating elements from old architecture into this architectural project in Milan, BBPR was able to relate the modern building to its historic past while also preventing the new addition from feeling out of place.

This architectural project in Milan’s stone material and supporting struts, which offer stability to the projecting section, accentuate its resemblance to Italy’s medieval defense towers while also mimicking some of the Gothic aspects of its surroundings.

This architectural project in Milan’s small bottom not only allowed for the creation of such a plaza area, but also complemented the building’s multifunctional purpose. The tight areas on the lower levels housed shops, offices, and exhibitions, while the more expansive higher stories housed apartments with breathtaking views of the city.

In several places of the city, the construction of office buildings was known to drive away residential constructions. However, this architectural project in Milan’s mix of business and residential uses was intended to prevent the deterioration of city centers that sometimes occurs when office buildings replace residential ones.

 

11. IULM_Milan

• Architects: 5+1AAAlfonsoFemiaGianlucaPeluffo
• Area: 23261 m²
• Year: 2014

The three buildings that divide the building space provide unique but complementary tasks. A tower, above all, should convey a strong presence and genuine willingness. The archives, consulting areas, and digital library are placed in the tower, which is centered around a spiral staircase space: a record of IULM’s projects and activities in the fields of fashion, film, and communication, as well as training and study center. IULM’s communicative heart.

The South building of this architectural project in Milan, a linear low-rise building, houses areas that are flexible enough to be used for academic facilities such as offices, laboratories, halls, and classrooms, as well as venues for company events and activities. The essential issue of communication for this complex is to strengthen operational osmosis between knowledge, creation, and production. The KTC can accommodate spin-offs that, in partnership with the university, represent an essential possibility for specialization and growth: governmental institutions and private firms in the disciplines of journalism, television, business, fashion, and style.

The north structure, which is directly connected to the IULM headquarters, is also low and linear (two stories) to allow for permeability with IULM itself, and it houses the library and more traditional archives than the digital ones housed in the tower. This architectural project in Milan, together with the entrance spaces, is open to the public, serving as a direct connection to the city.

The auditorium of this architectural project in Milan is another important component of the complex: the communication university/territory takes on its most expansive and continuous dimension in a building of great architectural renown, suited for movie projections, congresses, and cultural and artistic events. IULM may thus strengthen its function as a multi-cultural center for the most active Italian city life in the arts, while still providing room for international events to take place, particularly in the film. The auditorium and tower reflect, down and up, the two implicit phases of these types of events: immediate public usage and memory preservation as a source of long-term knowledge.

There are two underground levels for archives and plants, as well as parking, totaling 8200 square meters, with entry from Via Russoli and departure from the old underground entrance, which will be connected to the new basement. There are safety driveways at the same position, in front of Via Carlo Bo, and from the green space on Via Russoli.

 

12. Apple Piazza Liberty

• Architects: Foster + Partners
• Year: 2018

This architectural project in Milan consists of two essential elements: a tiered plaza and a fountain. Located immediately off the Corso Vittorio Emanuele, one of Milan’s most prominent pedestrian routes, people are drawn to the piazza by the sight of the stunning new fountain. This architectural project in Milan is another example of close collaboration between Apple’s design team, led by Chief Design Officer Sir Jonathan Ive, and Angela Ahrendts, senior vice president of Retail and Online Stores, as well as Foster + Partners.

The trademark water feature is an interactive, multisensory experience that celebrates the delights of city life while also capturing its dynamic character. Visitors enter the fountain through a glass-covered entryway, surrounded by the sight and sound of vertical jets of water splashing against the 26-foot-high glass walls. An immersive recreation of the childhood game of running through fountains, the experience changes throughout the day as sunlight filters through the water, while at night the glass ceiling creates a kaleidoscopic effect, with water falling down the walls and reflecting infinitely up the sky.

Stefan Behling, Head of Studio at Foster + Partners, said, “There can be no greater honor and duty than to design a new public plaza in Italy, where piazzas and urban spaces have long inspired us. The fountain expresses childlike excitement and talks to each of us. This architectural project in Milan’s simplicity evokes the sense of going into a large fountain without getting wet, as well as the delight of being alive.

The fountain runs into the Amphitheatre, which serves as a new social hub and outdoor extension of ‘Today at Apple’. The Amphitheater is marked by broad, sun-soaked stone steps that fall below street level and open up to a stage backed by a second fountain’s wall of water. The entire plaza is new and paved with Beola Grigia, a local stone from Lombardy, and is encircled by 21 new Gleditsia Sunburst trees.

The inside of this architectural project in Milan is a brilliant, monolithic room, symbolically carved from the same stone as the plaza above. The roof follows the amphitheater’s stepped design, with skylights and backlit ceiling panels that creatively blend artificial and natural light. Warm shafts of sunlight enter the underground store through the roof and stairs, connecting it to the light and rhythm of Milan and giving it the sensation of a huge daylight-filled art gallery. The steps leading into the store are made of polished stainless-steel encased cantilevering treads that also function as a sculptural light installation, providing a theatrical and stimulating experience.

 

FAQs 

What role did architectural projects in Milan play in Italian and international architecture during the 20th century?

• Answer: Architectural projects in Milan played an important role in Italian and international architecture during the twentieth century, in the early decades, and after World War II, thanks to the work of Giuseppe Terragni, Gio Ponti, BBPR, Caccia Dominioniand, and Aldo Rossi, who identified a specific “style Milano.”

What is the significance of the Bosco Verticale as an architectural project in Milan?

• Answer: The Vertical Forest is an architectural concept that replaces conventional materials on urban surfaces with the changing polychromy of leaves as walls. This architectural project in Milan aims to produce a microclimate and filter microscopic particles in the urban environment while also boosting biodiversity by stimulating the development of an urban ecosystem capable of supporting birds and insects.

What makes the Fondazione Luigi Rovati a unique architectural project in Milan?

• Answer: The form and materiality of the Hypogeum Floor, which comprises of three circular and one elliptical domed “caverns,” was inspired by the Etruscan tombs of Cerveteri and sculpted by the physical qualities of Firenzuola’s quarries. This architectural project in Milan features a collection of ancient Etruscan antiquities as well as pieces by contemporary artists Alberto Giacometti, Pablo Picasso, Arturo Martini, Lucio Fontana, and William Kentridge.

How does the San Raffaele Hospital’s architectural design contribute to energy efficiency?

• Answer: The louvered façade of this architectural project in Milan plays an important role in decreasing heat gain by diluting the impact of direct sunshine. The ceramic louvers’ depth varies according to the sun’s path. The ceramic has also been engineered to dissolve smog particles while storing heat, lowering energy use by 60%.

How does the Mondadori Office Playground redefine workplace design?

• Answer: This architectural project in Milan proposal offers a major redesign of modern furniture with the goal of providing a fully customizable workspace. CRA worked with Maestro Technology to repair nearly 1300 units of the building’s original modular furniture, utilizing wood and creating new reconfigurable components.
  

What makes Torre Velasca a unique architectural project in Milan?

• Answer: Torre Velasca’s upper third, which extends from the lower levels, was designed to resemble medieval watchtowers. These defense towers were used during wars to protect Italian castles against invasion. By combining aspects from old buildings into this architectural project in Milan, BBPR was able to connect the modern structure to its historic past while also preventing the new addition from feeling out of place.

 

Conclusion

Milan, a captivating blend of old and new, probably better recognized for its cutting-edge fashion and design scenes than for historic architectural projects in Milan is a city that encourages exploration.

Its attractiveness “is not necessarily the facades, such as in Paris, or the ancient ruins, as in Rome,” noted Italian architect and designer Hannes Peer. “It isn’t a clear beauty. It’s more of a hidden beauty that you have to discover.”

Naturally, Milan has architectural marvels, such as the immaculate white marble of the Duomo, the city’s majestic Gothic cathedral. But those willing to look deeper will discover that Milan’s true charm lies in its eclecticism and hidden details—a quirky lobby decorated with cheerful yellow diamond shapes and glowing round wall sconces designed by iconic Milanese architects and designers Geo Ponti and Alberto Rosselli, or a lush secret garden tucked away behind an unremarkable facade.

 

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