Palazzo Gardella

building in Milan

The Palazzo Gardella is a residential building designed in 1955 by Ignazio Gardrella located in Via Paolo Marchiondi 7, in the historic center of Milan inside the Quadronno District, which collects the open-air masterpieces of numerous archistars of the fifties.[1], The building is also known as the house at the "Giardini d'Ercole" and owes its name to the secret garden of Arcadia, which overlooked on the one hand towards Corso di Porta Romana and, on the other, on a private park inside which a eighteenth -century statue depicting Hercules was placed who kills the lion.

Palazzo Gardella
Map
General information
LocationMilano
Via Vigoni 13
Italy
Completed1959
Technical details
Floor count9

Features change

The Palazzo Forti has a particular architectural, artistic, historical and cultural interest.

  • Structures: reinforced concrete beams and pillars
  • Facade: Civil plaster painted pink (minor fronts); Bruno-Viola color kliner tiles (main prospect)
  • Covering: inclined aquifers
  • Windows: in iron with internal Venetian curtains (fixtures on terraces) or external (facade wire windows)

History change

• Design: 1949-1955 • Execution: 1955 • reference date: 1949 - 1955

Related pages change

References change

Bibliography change

  • Archivio Civico, Milano
  • Archivio Storico Gardella, Milano
  • Fondo Ignazio Gardella. Università degli studi di Parma. Centro studi archivio comunicazione - CSAC
  • Castelli Ferrieri A./ Gardella I./Menghi R., Casabella-Continuità, Casa in condominio a Milano, Milano 1954, n. 202
  • Viganò V., L'Architecture d'aujourd'hui, Immeuble à Milan, Boulogne-sur-Seine 1954, n. 57
  • Gio Ponti, Domus, Paesaggio moderno in Milano, Milano 1955, n. 313
  • Pica A., Architettura moderna in Milano. Guida, Milano 1964, p. 15
  • Grandi M./ Pracchi A., Milano, guida all'architettura moderna, Bologna 1980, p. 312
  • Buzzi Ceriani F. (a cura di), Ignazio Gardella, progetti e architetture 1933-1990, Venezia 1992, pp. 108-115
  • Gramigna G./ Mazza S., Milano. Un secolo di architettura milanese dal Cordusio alla Bicocca, Milano 2001, pp. 250-251
  • Guidarini S., Ignazio Gardella nell'architettura italiana: opere 1929-1999, Milano 2002, pp. 109-115
  • Biraghi M./ Lo Ricco G./ Micheli S. (a cura di), Guida all'architettura di Milano 1954-2014, Milano 2013, p. 16

Other websites change