HomeDiagramsDatabaseMapsForum About
     

Go Back   SkyscraperPage Forum > Photography Forums > My City Photos


Reply

 
Thread Tools Display Modes
     
     
  #1  
Old Posted Aug 5, 2013, 4:17 PM
mediolanum53's Avatar
mediolanum53 mediolanum53 is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: milan
Posts: 59
Milan

MILAN. (PART 1)
Milan: One of the most important city in Italy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milan

Church of San Babila a very famous church. Located in the city center

built in 4Th/5th century

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Babila



in San Babila square:









toward Piazza Duomo (Duomo square) city center

Corso Vittorio Emanuele II (Vittorio Emanuele avenue)



Chiesa di San Carlo (Church of St. Charles)



luxury shops



...and to live from hand to mouth.






Ferrari Store






Various




















Cathedral (Duomo): rear view



Cathedral (Duomo): la Madonnina (The Madonnina)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madonnina_(statue)



Cathedral (Duomo) and its square: front view

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milan_Cathedral



Galleria Vittorio Emanuele

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galleri...io_Emanuele_II









Still unbridled luxury



Teatro Alla Scala (La Scala Theatre)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Scala



Giuseppe Verdi
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuseppe_Verdi

Statue



Foundation



Ago e Filo (needle-Thread) by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje Van Bruggen - 2000
in italian: http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ago,_filo_e_nodo






Streecar: always present on the streets of milan







Gio'

Last edited by mediolanum53; Aug 5, 2013 at 7:37 PM.
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #2  
Old Posted Aug 5, 2013, 8:40 PM
Danny's Avatar
Danny Danny is offline
Universal Traveler
 
Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Madrid
Posts: 2,165
Smile

Milano is a very nice and great city. My parents and me visited that pretty city in 1986, yes, many years ago, and I still keep very nice memories of our stay there. It´s worth to have a visit to Milano.

Il Duomo is fantastic, and Galleria Vittorio Emanuele too. I´ve liked your pictures. Thanks for sharing.

Looking forward for part II.

Congrats and greetings from Madrid, Spain.
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #3  
Old Posted Aug 10, 2013, 11:02 AM
SHiRO's Avatar
SHiRO SHiRO is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: Barcelona
Posts: 15,728
Very nice! We need more Milano!
__________________
For some the coast signifies the end of their country and for some it signifies the beginning of the world...
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #4  
Old Posted Aug 10, 2013, 1:35 PM
mousquet's Avatar
mousquet mousquet is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Greater Paris, France
Posts: 4,556
I'd probably enjoy a visit, it appears somewhat underrated or something. But then, when you've got Rome, Florence, Siena, Naples, Venice and even much more in the same country, competition is damn tough.
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #5  
Old Posted Aug 10, 2013, 6:30 PM
mediolanum53's Avatar
mediolanum53 mediolanum53 is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: milan
Posts: 59
^^^
This is true. But if you have a small chance to see Milan, look at this city. There are many interesting places to visit

http://goitaly.about.com/od/moreital...es/p/milan.htm
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #6  
Old Posted Aug 10, 2013, 6:43 PM
Crawford Crawford is online now
Registered User
 
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Brooklyn, NYC/Polanco, DF
Posts: 30,551
Quote:
Originally Posted by mousquet View Post
I'd probably enjoy a visit, it appears somewhat underrated or something. But then, when you've got Rome, Florence, Siena, Naples, Venice and even much more in the same country, competition is damn tough.
I think that's the reason. Milan is actually a fairly interesting city, but Italy is probably more jam-packed with interesting places than any country on earth, so Milan seems uninteresting in comparison.

One other problem is that Milan has more modern core districts than other Italian cities. Some of the neighborhoods have a "postwar Germanic" type look, which is arguably less than interesting. But the city as a whole is still pretty beautiful, as seen in these pics.
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #7  
Old Posted Aug 11, 2013, 3:50 PM
mediolanum53's Avatar
mediolanum53 mediolanum53 is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: milan
Posts: 59
PART 2

Arch of Peace
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porta_Sempione





Atmosfera rilassata al Parco Sempione
relaxed atmosphere in the Parco Sempione (Simplon Park)






People and camera



city skyline in a damp day, taken from “monte Stella”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monte_Stella_(Milan)



Football Stadium GiuseppeMeazza (Stadio San Siro)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Siro



1960 circa



Leonardo's horses by Charles C. Dent located inside the Hippodrome San Siro
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonardo%27s_horse



Milan Trade Fair (FieraMilano)
http://www.fieramilano.it/en





NH hotel near Milan trade fair – Dominique Perroult Architecture
http://www.nh-hotels.com/nh/en/hotel.../nh-fiera.html
http://www.perraultarchitecte.com/en...y_4_stars.html





Moon over city



Idroscalo the “Sea of Milan”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idroscalo
http://www.vividroscalo.it/

terraces and tower for finish-line judges for rowing races





a rainy day



a sunny day







HISTORIC PICS

Old railway Central Station taken in the 20's
in italian: http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stazion...Centrale_(1864)



Milan city bombed in World War II. People leave the city



Venezia Avenue about 1927




gio'

Last edited by mediolanum53; Aug 11, 2013 at 4:17 PM.
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #8  
Old Posted Aug 11, 2013, 4:03 PM
Minato Ku's Avatar
Minato Ku Minato Ku is offline
Tokyo and Paris fan
 
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Paris, Montrouge
Posts: 4,168
Nice thread about Milan.
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #9  
Old Posted Aug 11, 2013, 4:23 PM
mousquet's Avatar
mousquet mousquet is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Greater Paris, France
Posts: 4,556
@mediolanum53 I've got this feeling: people are smart and know what to do. The city's a business hub. It's getting its glory in modernism and worldwide business while building anything ambitious in Rome or Venice is known to almost be the Via Crucis nowadays.

To the forum: notice that Naples features a pretty impressive business cluster too, except the economy's not as big yet over there.
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #10  
Old Posted Aug 11, 2013, 6:00 PM
mediolanum53's Avatar
mediolanum53 mediolanum53 is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: milan
Posts: 59
Quote:
Originally Posted by mousquet View Post
@mediolanum53 I've got this feeling: people are smart and know what to do. The city's a business hub. It's getting its glory in modernism and worldwide business while building anything ambitious in Rome or Venice is known to almost be the Via Crucis nowadays.
Yes, Milan is the italian financial capital, but on the other hand you have to consider that in Italy, Rome still has a strong presence in the tertiary sector (especially high-tech sector). Venice is beautiful, but I have a bad cold. Too much water

Quote:
Originally Posted by mousquet View Post
To the forum: notice that Naples features a pretty impressive business cluster too, except the economy's not as big yet over there.
OT

NAPLES BUSINESS DISTRICT




end OT
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #11  
Old Posted Aug 11, 2013, 6:06 PM
Minato Ku's Avatar
Minato Ku Minato Ku is offline
Tokyo and Paris fan
 
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Paris, Montrouge
Posts: 4,168
Centro direzionale di Napoli hosts at most 1 million m² of office space.
It is not a lot, It is not even sure that this is the main business core of Naples.

I would be quite cautious about the so called visible business cluster, it is not necessarily representative of the economic power of the city.
In many European cities, business cores with many office buildings are usually less visible than in the American or Asian cities because they are not much architecturally different that a dense residential district.

By example there are more office space in Rome than in Hong Kong. I think that this fact would suprise almost everyone.
Don't be fooled by the visibility, often the reality is not what it seems.
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #12  
Old Posted Aug 11, 2013, 7:28 PM
mousquet's Avatar
mousquet mousquet is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Greater Paris, France
Posts: 4,556
Both of you guys are surely right. Rome is likely still quite busy and above all desirable and well off as fuck. I think real estate in its core is even more insane than it is in Paris's. Then as a tourist, you take a look at locals over there, nice, stylish and sexy looking in their sweet stereotypical Dolce Vita lifestyle, along their lovely historic streets... That is obviously fine indeed.

But it's a fact, modern developments in Rome are much less ambitious than they are elsewhere, which is some kind of marker to me, meaning growth has to be found elsewhere. In Italy, why not Calabria for example? As growth is a conquest. Oh yes, I heard how hard people in Italy have been trying to improve the south, like in France we've been trying to redevelop our poor crappy ghettos. Well, we've all been somewhat failing so far. It's gonna take something bigger.

So the bigger is apparently growing right there in Milan and definitely in Paris's suburbs, and I'm glad about it. Maybe in Lyon, Marseille and Naples sometime soon.

Again, growth and wealth are a total conquest, nothing should be left aside.
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #13  
Old Posted Aug 11, 2013, 7:58 PM
The-New-Tony-Detroit's Avatar
The-New-Tony-Detroit The-New-Tony-Detroit is offline
DET->CLT->DC
 
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Washington, DC
Posts: 3,062
I never knew that Milan shared a sister monument with Charlotte... great thread!

image from flickr
__________________
Visit my new website: TheAmericanSkyline.com
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #14  
Old Posted Aug 11, 2013, 10:20 PM
mediolanum53's Avatar
mediolanum53 mediolanum53 is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: milan
Posts: 59
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #15  
Old Posted Aug 11, 2013, 10:46 PM
Crawford Crawford is online now
Registered User
 
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Brooklyn, NYC/Polanco, DF
Posts: 30,551
Quote:
Originally Posted by mousquet View Post
Both of you guys are surely right. Rome is likely still quite busy and above all desirable and well off as fuck. I think real estate in its core is even more insane than it is in Paris's. Then as a tourist, you take a look at locals over there, nice, stylish and sexy looking in their sweet stereotypical Dolce Vita lifestyle, along their lovely historic streets... That is obviously fine indeed.
I don't think that's true, though. Prime real estate in Rome is expensive, but not comparable to prime real estate in Paris.

And Rome has been harder hit by the economic problems than Paris, at least in terms of recent real estate trends. It's still extremely expensive in Rome, but Paris has few rivals globally.

I think Rome also has a smaller "global elite pied-a-terre" housing stock. It's just a smaller city, and with less real estate serving that sort of population.
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #16  
Old Posted Aug 12, 2013, 1:45 AM
Yorkie Yorkie is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: May 2012
Location: York PA
Posts: 275
That was my first time to see the city at street level. I was expecting a lot more foot traffic, similar to other cities of its caliber....I now know where to go and not be engulfed by other tourist..
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #17  
Old Posted Aug 17, 2013, 7:36 AM
mediolanum53's Avatar
mediolanum53 mediolanum53 is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: milan
Posts: 59
PART 3 - Other pics

Palazzo Lombardia: New Headquarters building Lombardy Region
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lombardy

This skyscraper also known as “Altra Sede” (Other Seat) to distinguish it from Pirelli Highrise, former headquarters of the Lombardy Region headquarters and even before of the multinational company: Pirelli and C.Spa which takes its nome

see here
http://skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=31315
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palazzo_Lombardia











Pirelli Highrise - now a branch of the regional government

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirelli_Tower

this building is still the most beautiful skyscraper in Milan. In my opinion






Various

A very large Table-football (or “biliardino” or “calcio-balilla in italian), for 11 players




These ones are of the normal size








the city streets are empty. We are in the month of August. And the inhabitants have gone on vacation. Many on the beach, some on the mountains or lakes. Many in the tropical countries









Politecnico di Milano (Polytechnic University) university institution providing courses in science, technology and engineering

http://www.polimi.it/en/english-version/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politecnico_di_Milano






statue of Giuseppe Colombo in face of Polytechnic

http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giusepp...mbo_(ingegnere) – in italian
he worked for 45 years as a professor, at the Polytechnic,



and, still old streetcar. Very, very bautiful



and, .....again some historical pics

Piazza Costanzo Ciano '30s, now Piazza Cordusio ((Cordusio square) downtown




Largo Augusto '30s



Via Carlo Farini '20s



gio'
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #18  
Old Posted Aug 17, 2013, 12:13 PM
OhioGuy OhioGuy is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: DC
Posts: 7,649
Great photos! Very nice to see Milan here on SSP!
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #19  
Old Posted Aug 17, 2013, 4:12 PM
Yorkie Yorkie is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: May 2012
Location: York PA
Posts: 275
Evan the tourist are on vacation..
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #20  
Old Posted Aug 17, 2013, 4:38 PM
ReDSPork02 ReDSPork02 is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Jan 2006
Posts: 153
Very Cool! Milan is Nice.
Reply With Quote
     
     
This discussion thread continues

Use the page links to the lower-right to go to the next page for additional posts
 
 
Reply

Go Back   SkyscraperPage Forum > Photography Forums > My City Photos
Forum Jump


Thread Tools
Display Modes

Forum Jump


All times are GMT. The time now is 3:37 PM.

     
SkyscraperPage.com - Archive - Privacy Statement - Top

Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.8.7
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, vBulletin Solutions, Inc.