Close to the city centre, looking up, one can notice the presence of an outstanding profile: it is the outline of Torre Velasca, whose symbolic value one is able to guess in the distance. The building was designed in the 1950s by a group of Milanese architects called BBPR after their names: Banfi, Belgiojoso, Peressutti and Rogers. The Velasca Tower belongs to the first generation of Italian modern architecture, nevertheless keeping itself linked to the Milanese context in which it was born, relating itself particularly to the cathedral, the bell towers in town and above all to the Sforzesco Castle. The tower, with his characteristic "mushroom" shape, sticks out into the city centre skyline (average height 99 meters): buildings, domes, towers and bell towers. Its structure recalls the Lombard tradition of the massive profile of towers and medieval fortresses in which the lower parts were narrower and generally used as stores, laboratories or shops while the higher storeys, generally used as homes, did stick out propped up by wooden boards or stone beams. In fact the shape of this building is the result of long studies and researches trying to satisfy the functional needs of space: a narrow surface on the ground but the possibility to extend and enlarge the structure from a certain height on. Urban planning regulations also imposed specific volumes depending on the purpose of buildings, in this specific case mixed functions were figured: residential and commercial use.