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Ground floor level
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Level 6 - Restaurant
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Fondazione Prada Tower
Office for Metropolitan Architecture. Milan, Italy
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Name of work in English
Fondazione Prada Tower
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Name of work in original language
Fondazione Prada Torre
Prize year
EUmies Awards 2019
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Work Location
Milan, Italy
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Studio
Office for Metropolitan Architecture
EUmies Awards 2019 Nominees
The Tower is the latest completed part of the Fondazione Prada.
Collaborators
Architect: Massimo Alvisi (Local architect); Local Executive Architect: Alvisi Kirimoto & Partners, Atelier Verticale; Structural engineering: Favero & Milan; Engineering: Prisma Engineering (Mechanical, electric and plumbing); Consulting: GAD (Cost consulting); Building physics: Level Acoustics (Acoustics); Interiors: dUCKS Scéno (Scenography); Fire consulting: GAE Engineering; Lighting: Les Eclaireurs
Program
Culture
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Labels
Art Gallery · Exhibition
Site area
12153 m²
Total gross floor
5916 m²
Completion
2018
The tower is located on the north-western corner of the Fondazione Prada and houses site specific installations as well as a restaurant, a reception space and guest facilities.
The Tower is oriented away from the complex, facing the abandoned railroad tracks and the city center in the distance. The floors are cantilevered from the vertical circulation core so that the northern facade is free to have different openings and orientations. The floors have gradually increasing heights in order to create a varied repertoire of gallery spaces.
White exposed structural concrete Gray travertine (gallery floor) White travertine (gallery floor) Prefab concrete tiles (stair floor) Cheap wood on some wall of the gallery spaces Colored and backlit pink onyx slabs for the big lift Anodized aluminum doors