Residenze Litta

Palazzo Litta is one of Milan's most important historical monuments, a prestigious example of Baroque architecture. It was commissioned by the Arese counts and designed by architect Francesco Maria Ricchino in the late 1600s. In the last century it was the headquarters of the Società Ferroviaria dell'Alta Italia, later Ferrovie dello Stato, which partly changed its typology, adapting it to a tertiary use.

Palazzo Litta is today a complex of several buildings, where the historical and monumental part is immediately recognisable and mainly faces Corso Magenta and the internal courtyards. In the innermost part of the complex are the buildings that are the subject of the intervention, transferred by the State Railways to the Valcomp Tre company, which present different architecture in terms of type and history. The redevelopment of these buildings redevelops the entire area between Corso Magenta, Via Illica, Via Brentano and the historic garden overlooked by the Edison building.

Brentano Residences

The building, composed of a series of flanking buildings very different from each other in terms of construction period and architectural typology, stretches along the Foro Bonaparte courtyard and folds to create the Brentano courtyard, a small courtyard with a "old Milan" charm. The work on the buildings was meticulous and respectful of the different typologies, and aimed at creating twenty-four residential units on different levels, often mezzanine, with private gardens and new projecting loggias. The loggias, the third significant theme of the monumental part of Palazzo Litta after the courtyards and gardens, become the element of contemporaneity and quality aimed at bringing the living quality of the context inside.