MEET Milan Design, Porta Venezia Architecture, Italian Palazzo Building Images
MEET Milan, Porta Venezia
28 Oct 2020
MEET Milan Digital Arts Center Building
Design: CRA-Carlo Ratti Associati and Italo Rota
Location: Milan, Italy

Photos by Michele Nastasi
CRA-designed MEET Digital Arts Center Opens in Milan
CRA-Carlo Ratti Associati and Italo Rota unveil MEET ? Milan?s center for digital culture and creative technology. Occupying a newly renovated historic palazzo, the building revolves around a 15-meter-high vertical plaza. The design investigates how physical space can foster serendipity and unexpected connections between people in a digital world. MEET will open to the public on October 31st, 2020.
October 28, 2020 – CRA-Carlo Ratti Associati and Italo Rota have designed MEET ? Milan?s center for digital culture and creative technology, which will open to the public on October 31st, 2020. The project occupies a historic palazzo, known for decades as one of the great symbols of cultural life in the city, which has been fully renovated in the last two years with the support of Fondazione Cariplo. At its core, there is a wide vertical public space illuminated by Artemide- including a 15-meter-high habitable stairwell – which can seamlessly turn from theater to workspace to meeting area, and serves as the focal point for all the center?s daily activities and events.
With the MEET project, CRA aims to investigate the meaning of physical space in an increasingly d...