Milan Italy Train Station Facade
by Joan Carroll
Title
Milan Italy Train Station Facade
Artist
Joan Carroll
Medium
Photograph - Photography And Digital Art
Description
Milano Centrale is a sight in itself. As indicated at the top of the building it was built in 1931 to replace an older station dating from 1864. Milano Centrale is the main railway station of Milan Italy and is also ideally situated as a major railway station in Europe. The cornerstone for the station was laid in 1906 and an architect chosen in 1912, who designed a building modeled after Union Station in Washington DC. Due to the Italian economic crisis during World War I, construction proceeded very slowly, and the project kept changing and becoming more and more complex and majestic. This happened especially when Benito Mussolini became Prime Minister, and wanted the station to represent the power of the fascist regime. The end result was more monumental than the original design and its bombastic appearance with muscular sculptures was a good fit with Mussolini's preferred architecture style. I chose a more ethereal processing as a counterpoint to the heavy architectural design. FUN FACT: Despite the grand station, Mussolini did not really make the trains run on time as myth would have it. And in many instances of my experience, they still don't!
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joan carroll, train, italia, transportation, architecture, central, sky, statue, travel, clouds, blue, pegasus, horse, landmark, railroad, italian, europe
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October 20th, 2016
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