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The future Milan starts from its old train yards

08 December, Avvenire

The House of Energy and Environment in Piazza Po will exhibit till 28th December 38 pictures of Milan’s seven old train yards currently under requalification following a project that will radically change the city.

Photographers Marco Introini and Francesco Radino along with the curator Fabrizio Trisoglio titled the photo exhibition “Railway yards of Milan. Today, before Tomorrow”. The exhibition was organised by the Aem Foundation – A2A group- and it depicts the old rail years of Farini, Greco, Lambrate, Porta Romana, Rogoredo, Porta Genova and San Cristoforo. The seven locations cover a vacant surface of 1,250,000 Sq m altogether. They contributed to the industrial development of the city, facilitating the transport and shipping of finished goods and essential products, as well as providing to the growth of the neighbouring areas.

While the black and white pictures of Introini stress the architectural aspects showing how Milan has changed, the colour photography of Radino makes the internal spaces standing out combining memory, man and nature.

Thanks to the work of the two photographers, Aem Foundation has been documenting since the Eighties the changes of the city and the modernisation of its infrastructures which, focusing on the themes of community and enterprise, as well as on the relationship between services and territory starting indeed from Porta Romana where the foundation is headquartered.

Aem president Alberto Martinelli says that “the old rail yards have definitely been a key element for the growth of Milan. Overcoming the urban and social dividing lines required and will require a management with a common view betting on the quality of the city and its innovation”. Urban Planning City Councillor Pierfrancesco Maran commented: “Milan can grow sustainably, through the increase of green spaces and public transportation and the offer of new public services and housing”.

The exhibition has been included in Photofestival and Novecento Italiano, and it comes with a catalogue of 80 pictures with texts by the curator and the photographers along with prefaces by Maran, Martinelli and A2A president Giovanni Valotti.

Source: Avvenire

Translator: Cristina Ambrosi