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Close to Milan's city centre, looking up, one can notice the presence of an outstanding profile: it is the outline of Torre Velasca, whose symbolic value one is able to guess from a distance. The building was designed in the 1950s by a group of Milanese architects called BBPR after their names: Banfi, Belgiojoso, Peressutti and Rogers. The Velasca Tower belongs to the first generation of Italian modern architecture, nevertheless keeping itself linked to the Milanese context in which it was born, and relating itself particularly to the cathedral, the city's bell towers and above all to the Sforzesco Castle. The tower, with its characteristic 'mushroom' shape and height of 106 metres, sticks out into the city centre skyline, made up of buildings, domes, towers and bell towers. Its structure recalls the Lombard tradition of the massive profile of towers and medieval fortresses.
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