"Few cities match Milan’s style, sophistication, and financial clout. A world city on a par with Los Angeles or Mexico City, Greater Milan’s ten million people and its strengths in commerce, design, education, finance, and media make it a leading European Union hub. Milan was the seat of the Western Roman Empire and later ranked among the great cities of the Renaissance. Today, Milan is culture and taste, business and fashion, art and elegance."Exactly so! Culture and taste, business and fashion, art and elegance, are just what come to my mind when I think of my good friends in the Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations.
Specifically, it is OBO's cultural heritage staff that are taking the lead on this one. Bene per loro!
"OBO’s Office of Cultural Heritage produced a short film about how the United States is building a consulate general in Milan that will integrate classical Italian architecture and American design in a grand act of cultural diplomacy. The film can be seen here."Please watch the film, and be aware that an unusually intelligent thing is happening here. For once, instead of going straight to the option of building a big ol' forbidding Fortress Embassy, we are using an existing structure that is of importance to our host government and adapting it to our use. That's a win-win for ourself and our host.
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An "Italian" rifle range! This statement alone needs to be digested.
An Italian one, sure. Italians were among the most prolific dangerous game hunters, back when that was popular, and they shot elephants with the same 6.5mm Carcano bolt-action service rifle that Oswald used in Dallas, BTW.
Lots of good rifle history there in Italy, not to mention the many fine shotguns they turn out today. I myself am the proud owner of a middle grade Italian scatter gun (a Franchi) and a tiny but fearsome .380 (Beretta Pico).
Oldest firearm company in the world is Italian (Beretta circa mid 1500's)!
Indeed!
Enjoy: https://youtu.be/TWfph3iNC-k?si=xGoeunwIyfbat_Ai
Placing a U.S. Consulate on a hazmat site with how much lead in the soil and underwater systems?
I'm not sure it's exactly a hazmat site, but there surely is environmental remediation to be done. OBO has done that before, for instance, with the Mexico City big embassy project that uses a former industrial site.
The new term is "brown site" for land that had a previous use, versus the never-before-developed "green site' that OBO used to seek out exclusively.
They get environmentalist bonus points for using brown sites, and apparently that compensates for the cost of site remediation.
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