New look for the historical “Palazzo del Fuoco” of Milan, located in Piazzale Loreto and designed in the 1960s by architects Giulio Minoletti e Giuseppe Chiodi using futuristic illuminable glazed surfaces.
After winning the architectural design competition by Kryalos, GBPA Architects studio was commissioned to renovate an office building: the project actualizes the space at ground floor with two main entrances and a covered internal double height square and reorganizes the existing floors with new vertical connections.
In addition, the remodeling of the new façades is thought to respect the original design and to be integrated with the renovated night lighting system of the building; in fact, by using high performance LEDs technology is possible to create the dialogue between internal and external spaces, night and day, as originally thinked by Minoletti.
The aim of the project is to return those characters of originality and innovation of technology now lost and restore to the building those distinctive elements that made it one of the most representative works of Milan of the early Sixties, in a renovated relationship with today’s dynamic city.
