A conservative but contemporary recovery
We are in Corso Venezia 11 and the architectural treasure includes the new Portrait Milano, a 5-star luxury hotel, and what everyone now calls the new Piazza del Quadrilatero: 2800 square meters, a new promenade that connects Corso Venezia and Via Sant'Andrea, surrounded by the historic colonnades of the former Archbishop's Palace.
It is on the latter, organized on two floors, that Michele De Lucchi with his AMDL CIRCLE has acted in a conservative perspective, closing part of the upper level with sliding glass panels and giving the city a new designer recovery: with a high philological value but designed for the real life of today's citizens.
“We are so full of history in Italy that we almost feel trapped,” says the architect. “But recovering it, updating it, transforming it into contemporary places is the greatest opportunity we have today in terms of architecture. To bring people closer to their roots but also to give space to everyday expectations".
To recover this heritage of excellence, AMDL CIRCLE had to retrace the tumultuous architectural events of the Seminary.
“The red thread of history is often interrupted and must be mended to reconstruct an aesthetic homogeneity but, above all, the authenticity of everything that architecture has gone through over the centuries”, explained the architect.