Chiesa parrocchiale di Sant'Agnese Vergine e Martire
In the Vialba district of northwestern Milan, the Chiesa parrocchiale di Sant'Agnese Vergine e Martire dates from 1955. It belongs to a mid-twentieth-century programme of building that brought housing and community facilities to this part of the city. Amos Edallo and Antonello Vincenti designed it as a single nave laid out in the shape of a Latin cross.
The facade is the first thing you meet: six pillars of reinforced concrete, joined by a beam, partly screen the wall behind them. On that wall a fresco by Neonato Nicolò shows scenes from the life of Saint Agnes, virgin and martyr. Inside, the pillars carry their rhythm down the nave. Daylight enters beneath the slopes of the roof and beside the altar. The light keeps the atmosphere calm and does the practical work of illumination as well.
Two porticos connect the church to its parish buildings, covered walkways carried on columns or arches. They frame two gardens, a quiet retreat for reflection and for the neighbourhood to gather.
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