Crespi Palace, Palazzo in Novecento style in Milan, Italy.
Crespi Palace is a corner building with a portico at corso Matteotti 1 in Milan, built in the Novecento style. The corner section introduces the portico with a monumental serliana, decorated windows and a broken pediment. In the rear section, the serliana portico becomes a colonnade supporting round arches, and the facade is plainer except for pilasters on the first three floors.
Crespi Palace was built between 1928 and 1932 in the Novecento style to a design by Piero Portaluppi, on the corner of corso Matteotti at number 1. The building is listed as Italian national heritage.
The palace reflects Novecento Italiano design, a style that mixes modern forms with Italian tradition. This approach appears in the ornamental windows and stone details that set the building apart from its neighbors.
Crespi Palace stands at the corner of corso Matteotti and via Sant'Andrea, a short walk from the Duomo and the Montenapoleone metro stop. The building is not open to the public, so the portico and the corner serliana are seen from the street; the rear colonnade is visible from the inner courtyard side.
The corner body is framed by a monumental serliana, a triple opening with a central arch flanked by two lintelled bays, crowned by a broken tympanum. In the rear wing the same motif gives way to a plain portico of columns carrying round arches.
The community of curious travelers
AroundUs brings together thousands of curated places, local tips, and hidden gems, enriched daily by 93,766 contributors worldwide.