UniCredit Tower
Twisting glass skyscraper with a glowing steel spire, rising over a fountain-ringed circular plaza.
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This guide to the UniCredit Tower in Milan is anchored by Gae Aulenti, the architect for whom the piazza below it is named, and traces her path from one of only two women in her 1948 architecture class at Milan's Polytechnic to her celebrated transformation of a derelict Paris train station into the Musée d'Orsay. It follows how that work made her the first woman awarded France's Legion of Honor, in 1987, and the twisting glass tower architect Cesar Pelli designed to rise over the square that bears her name. Look up after dark, when the steel spire changes color.
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