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The Breda Tower () is a 30-
Torre Breda was the highest building in Italy when constructed, until 1960 when the
storey
A storey (English in the Commonwealth of Nations, Commonwealth English) or story (American English), is any level part of a building with a floor that could be used by people (for living, work, storage, recreation, etc.). Plurals for the wor ...
, skyscraper
A skyscraper is a tall continuously habitable building having multiple floors. Most modern sources define skyscrapers as being at least or in height, though there is no universally accepted definition, other than being very tall high-rise bui ...
in Milan
Milan ( , , ; ) is a city in northern Italy, regional capital of Lombardy, the largest city in Italy by urban area and the List of cities in Italy, second-most-populous city proper in Italy after Rome. The city proper has a population of nea ...
, Italy
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. The tower was built in 1954 on a design by architects Eugenio
Eugenio is an Italian and Spanish masculine given name deriving from the Greek language, Greek 'wiktionary:Eugene, Eugene'. The name is Eugénio in Portuguese and Eugênio in Brazilian Portuguese.
The name's translated literal meaning is well born ...
and Ermenegildo Soncini, with Luigi Mattioni.The tower was designed by Eugenio and Ermenegildo Soncini with Luigi Mattioni. The architects are mentioned in this order in the paper written by Mattioni (''Il grattacielo di Milano'') in ''Edilizia Moderna'', n. 56. Unfortunately, thereafter many publications erroneously placed them in alphabetical order or attributed the work to Mattioni alone. The eight floors of the lower body are devoted exclusively to offices, while the rest of the building houses residential apartments. The building is currently under restyling.
Torre Breda was the highest building in Italy when constructed, until 1960 when the Pirelli Tower
Pirelli Tower (Italian: ''Grattacielo Pirelli'' – also called "''Pirellone''", literally "Big Pirelli") is a 32-storey, skyscraper in Milan, Italy. The base of the building is , with a length of and a width of . The construction used approxima ...
was completed. It is now the fifth tallest building in Milan and the 13th in Italy.
See also
*List of buildings in Milan
This is a list of buildings in Milan.
Churches
Paleochristian, Romanesque
* Basilica of Sant'Ambrogio
* Basilica of San Calimero
* Basilica of Sant'Eustorgio
* Basilica of San Lorenzo
* Basilica of San Nazaro in Brolo
* Basilica ...
*List of tallest buildings in Italy
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References
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