Apartment and Shop Building

Facing west on a tree-lined avenue, the main facade rises up eight storeys, plus one level set back, and features cantilevered terraces projecting two or three metres. 

The terraces create a sort of intermediary zone between indoors and outdoors. Each floor has two placed beside each other, five and seven metres long. All the living-room spaces and bedrooms open onto the terraces through folding French windows. 

The bedroom windows are rotated south to improve both the aspect and preserve privacy between the two terraces. 

The 2.5-metre-high metal structure for the windows of the 4 shops is inserted independently on the lower portion of the building. 

A vibrantly coloured design, no longer present, was devised and achieved by using bright-red shop shutters, polenta-yellow and turquoise-blue sunshades on the balconies, and dark-brown awnings for the shops.

Other significant buildings by Vittoriano Viganò:  ‘Marchiondi Spagliardi’ United Institutes, 1953-1957, Via Noale 1, on the corner of Via Antonino Mosca
Cinema Cavour, 1963 (recently restored), Piazza Cavour 3
Milan Polytechnic School of Architecture extension, 1970-1985, Via Andrea Maria Ampère, on the corner of Via Edoardo Bonardi