Photos of Torre Diamante
About Torre Diamante
Torre Diamante is a soaring glass tower in the Porta Nuova business district just north of central Milan. It's design was inspired by cut gemstones, so none of the faces are parallel, the edges all lean, and the glass panels are all angled in and out so every piece reflects the light differently. Stand at the base on one side and it looks like a single sheer wall of glass, but if you move around the corner and the glass there ripples into a dozen surfaces at once. It stands over 30 floors high, making it is the tallest steel framed building in Italy. Two lower buildings next to it mimic the same faceted look to complete a unique trio. The tower is amazing to experiment with because the glass gives you something different every where you look as it mirrors the sky and the neighbouring towers back in fragments. Getting in tight and shooting straight up a corner gives you a hard graphic zigzag. Then you can back up into the plaza and highlight the diamond shape. Blue hour is a great time to be here when the office floors are all lit from inside. The interior of the tower is a private office building but the plaza around the base is public so you have lots of space to experiment with various views and compositions. Plus the Piazza Gae Aulenti and Bosco Verticale towers are both just a few minutes away on foot so you can easily build a whole shooting route. (Milan, Lombardy, Italy)
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