Inside no. 34 Corso Garibaldi there’s an old furnace
Inside a courtyard on Corso Garibaldi is the so-called Fornace degli Angioli, a currently private, residential building converted from an old furnace.
This building, once a city furnace for artisans, was used with the consent of the Milan City Council by architect Vittorio Mazzucconi with an agreement that the building would be immediately abandoned as soon as the demolition order arrived.
Mazzucconi therefore made the necessary arrangements for his studio and renamed the building La Fornace degli Angioli.
However, the demolition plans of the Milan City Council changed with the redevelopment of the Garibaldi district in the 1980s, as they wanted to return it to the city as a public place at the service of citizens.
From a letter dated 30 September 1981 written by architect Mazzucconi to the Area Council, it is understood that the destination could have been that of a canteen for artisans.
The same document, however, is a memo from the architect so that he could consider leaving the destination of the brickworks as it was.
In 1991, however, Mazzucconi left the studio in the furnace and the architect’s own activity to devote himself to something else.
Today it is a private residence.
