Concorso Internazionale di Architettura

MILANO 2001, III MILLENNIUM

Luminous Sign
International architecture competition


MILANO 2001, III MILLENNIUM
A bright idea for the XXIst century
Promoted by Milan Town Council

organised by AEM SPA, l’ARCA and Partners In Business Communications
sponsored by Milan Polytechnic
 

The Milan City Council has specially requested AEM SPA to commision l’Arca, international architecture magazine, and Partners In Business Communications to launch an ideas competition open to all Italian and foreign architects and engineers registered with their respective professional associations, in conjunction, if so desired, with other artists or non-artists, to design a "luminous sign" for architectural communication purposes to be constructed in one of the city’s public spaces as Milan’s own homage to the beginning of the third millennium, testifying to the scientific-artistic capacities of the society in which we live.

A homage to the material and immaterial cultural heritage of all the ethnic groups populating the city.

The public area the City of Milan has designated for the project is just in front of Milan’s central station (Piazza Duca D’Aosta).

The idea is to get the world’s leading designers to put forward artistic-environmental ideas of such high creative standards that the city will be intellectually projected onto the highest of international levels, thereby attracting international attention to Milan’s vocation as a European city projected towards the future.