Bocconi University - Mass, elegance and light!

Milan's Luigi Bocconi University dates back from 1902 and has grown in the past 100 years from a privately funded institution to an international university for business, economics and law. Because the campus kept growing over the decades, it now comprises an entire neighbourhood within a residential and commercial district, and new facilities had to be built. In this new building, new conference and lecture rooms can be found, as well as a 1000-seat aula and research offices for 1000 professors and postgraduate students. I personally really like this building. Notice the collisions between mass and glass, hard and soft. And how the windows are placed and design so get sufficient indirect light into the building. So clever and elegantly done. Really a stunning piece of architecture! Well done Grafton Architects!

//Niklas