The Corner, Milan Design, Mies van der Rohe Award 2022 Nominee, Architecture, Italian Building Images
The Corner, Mies van der Rohe Award 2022 Nominee,
10 Feb 2021
The Corner
Design: Atelier (s) Alfonso Femia
Location: Milan, Italy
The Corner by Atelier(s) Alfonso Femia selected for the Mies van der Rohe Award 2022

Candidates for the 2022 Mies van der Rohe Award of the European Union for Contemporary Architecture have been announced: representing Italy, among the nominees, ?The Corner? signed by Atelier(s) Alfonso Femia.

The official list, presented by the European Commission with the Mies van der Rohe Foundation, for the 2022 award – named after the master of the Modern Movement – shows the best architectural projects in the old continent and includes 449 works from 41 countries. Among the 18 Italians selected, ?The Corner? by Atelier(s) Alfonso Femia appears in the Office Building category. Redevelopment project of the Generali Real Estate building located in Milan, on the corner of Viale della Liberazione and Viale Melchiorre Gioia.
The different facades act as a distinctive element strongly characterizing the entire structure, and the urban area in which it is located, an object of profound and radical change in recent years.

This is what architect Alfonso Femia, founder of the studio with offices in Milan, Paris, and Genoa, tells us about the project: ?We meet a building in an urban area where everything has changed over time. A sentinel on the border ...