Italian television has many “homes,” but only one stands out as true auteur architecture – and what an auteur it is! Celebrating its 70th anniversary, RAI’s historic headquarters in Milan is the masterpiece of Gio Ponti.
From Torre Velasca to CityLife, from San Siro to Porta Nuova, all the great changes that have involved the city over the last seven decades are available to the eyes of who climbs to the top of Milan’s first television antenna.
The building designed by Ponti with Fornaroli, Soncini and Bertolaia, where the history of Italian television began in 1954, is also the setting for a veritable essay on the transformation of interiors in the post-war period: Ramak Fazel’s photographs tell this story for Domus.
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What does a place where TV was born look like? Seven decades of objects and spaces conceived, rethought and embedded inside 27, Corso Sempione tell us how life in Italian national TV is a matter of design.
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