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Palazzo Mezzanotte

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The main room of the Palace, called "sala delle grida" ("cries room") as businessmen would shout their offers to buy and sell, is lighted by a large net, affixed to the ceiling, which reproduces the constellations in the celestial sphere. Since the 1990s, all business is done remotely via the
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In 1925, the city authorities of Milan launched a project for a new, larger building for the stocks exchange. Architect Paolo Mezzanotte began his design in 1927, and construction works began in 1929. The ruins of a Roman theatre were discovered during the excavations, and this delayed the
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The building was completed in 1932. At its inauguration, it qualified as the most technologically advanced building in Italy; it was the first building to implement a single call button controlling several elevators, it had
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construction. A plaque showing the map of those ruins is now affixed on one of the outer walls of the palace.
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The building has a monumental, 36 m high facade, in a style that mixes 20th-century architecture and
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The plaque showing the plan of the Roman theatre found during the excavations for Palazzo Mezzanotte
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network, and the room has lost its original function; it is now mostly used to house conferences.
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The original stock exchange of Milan was established in 1808 in the seat of the
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Within the building, the huge glass ceiling with linear compartments of the
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known as "Bazzi's Cry" was designed by the renowned painter
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Palazzo Mezzanotte is located in Milan
Palazzo Mezzanotte is located in Italy
Coordinates
45°27′54.20″N 9°10′59.49″E / 45.4650556°N 9.1831917°E / 45.4650556; 9.1831917
Milan
Italy
Italian stock exchange
Piazza Affari
Paolo Mezzanotte
Mount of Piety
Palazzo dei Giureconsulti
Piazza Mercanti
Piazza Cordusio
Poste Italiane
postal service

air conditioning
Neoclassicism
travertine
Leone Lodi
Geminiano Cibau
Carlo Bazzi
Corvaya e Bazzi
Gio Ponti
Pietro Chiesa
Guido Marussig
"Decorative Arts in the New Palazzo delle Borse di Milano"
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