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Texts by Helen Barrett and Hans Tuzzi. Photographs by Giancarlo Pradelli<\/em><\/p>\n

An elegant photographic book highlights BFF\u2019s new headquarters. Viale Scarampo, in Milan, saw the inauguration in 2025 of the BFF Banking Group\u2019s new headquarters, a building whose transparent airiness and environmental and social sustainability ensure it provides an entirely original contribution to the city\u2019s skyline. Designed by OBR (Open Building Research), the structure places the accent on the brightness of its interior and does not seek to compete in height with the skyscrapers of the nearby City Life district. The book is organised in a series of alternating photographs and text, drawing attention not only to the architectural features and the building\u2019s functional characteristics, but also to the aim of creating a working environment that is intimately linked to its surroundings, in contrast to the traditional view of corporate architecture.<\/p>\n

Casa BFF is not only the headquarters of a B2B bank, it is also a building that embraces the neighbourhood and the city as a whole, starting with the museum it houses, which is accessible to all and contains the BFF Collection of post-war Italian art. Here the visitor will find works by Valerio Adami, Franco Angeli, Enrico Baj, Alberto Burri, Lucio Del Pezzo, Lucio Fontana, Gianfranco Pardi, Mario Schifano, Arnaldo Pomodoro, Gi\u00f2 Pomodoro and Emilio Tadini. The Bank inaugurated the museum with an exhibition dedicated to Enrico Baj\u2019s series of 40 etchings inspired by John Milton\u2019s Paradise Lost. The book does full justice to the exhibition spaces, as well as to the works that hang on the building\u2019s walls.<\/p>\n

Helen Barrett<\/strong>\u00a0is a London-based journalist and author. From 2012 to 2022, she edited the ‘House & Home’ section of the\u00a0Financial Times<\/em>. Today, she writes about architecture, town planning, design and art for numerous publications, including the\u00a0New York Times,\u00a0<\/em>the\u00a0Financial Times\u00a0<\/em>and the\u00a0Daily Telegraph<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Hans Tuzzi<\/strong>\u00a0is the author of the\u00a0Metropolis<\/em>\u00a0(Rizzoli) and\u00a0Vanagloria<\/em>\u00a0(Bollati Boringhieri), as well as a successful series of detective stories set in Milan that feature Chief Inspector Melis (Bollati Boringhieri). Tuzzi himself keeps his nose to the ground and knows all about the goings-on of the Milan metropolis, and his essay here focuses on the virtual triangle formed by Piazza Giulio Cesare, the site of the former trade fair and the San Siro racecourse. He employs his subtle, witty turns of phrase to explore urban and social transformations, relating curious and little-known anecdotes about this part of the city.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Texts by Helen Barrett and Hans Tuzzi. Photographs by Giancarlo Pradelli An elegant photographic book highlights BFF\u2019s new headquarters. Viale Scarampo, in Milan, saw the inauguration in 2025 of the BFF Banking Group\u2019s new headquarters, a building whose transparent airiness and environmental and social sustainability ensure it provides an entirely original contribution to the city\u2019s…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":36247,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[66],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-36063","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-fashion-and-design","7":"disponibilita-si","8":"description-off","10":"first","11":"outofstock","12":"featured","13":"shipping-taxable","14":"product-type-simple"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fivecontinentseditions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/36063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fivecontinentseditions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fivecontinentseditions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fivecontinentseditions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fivecontinentseditions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fivecontinentseditions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=36063"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fivecontinentseditions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=36063"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fivecontinentseditions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=36063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}