Piazza Gae Aulenti
Elevated circular plaza ringed by glass skyscrapers, with three infinity fountains and hidden underground parking below.
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This guide to Piazza Gae Aulenti in Milan opens with architect Gae Aulenti's death in October 2012, days after a lifetime achievement award, and the circular plaza the city named for her soon after. It traces her rise as one of the few women in 1950s Italian architecture and her best-known work, transforming Paris's abandoned Gare d'Orsay into the Musee d'Orsay. Stand among the piazza's three fountains, raised above Porta Garibaldi station, to feel the same instinct at work here.
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