Corso XXII Marzo

As you walk along Corso XXII Marzo, coming from the Madonnina that overlooks Milan, the regular rhythm of the quiet late nineteenth-century façades is suddenly interrupted. A brutalist concrete corner, adjacent to a prototypical building block in the urban plan of Cesare Beruto, lets you glimpse through it into a courtyard. On entering this space, something remarkable happens: you are suddenly teleported from a nineteenth-century perimeter block into what seems to be a long U-shaped 1970s housing project.