A modern building in Via Fatebenefratelli
Framed between the Church of San Marco and a majestic cedar of Lebanon, from which it takes its name, there is a building with a modern character “The Cedar House”.
The building takes the place of the previous Casa Andreae, destroyed during the bombings of the Second World War, and its construction and design was entrusted to the architect Giulio Minoletti, by the Andreae Company.
Minoletti worked on it from 1951 to around 1957 and made the tree the fulcrum of the construction, which in fact revolves all around it. The works started in 1955 and ended in 1959.
The Cedar House was designed as a complex intended partly for offices and partly for luxury homes.
The office block, six floors high, overlooks via Cernaia, while the residential block, 8 floors high, overlooks via Fatebenefratelli. In the center, in the private garden we find the protagonist, the cedar of Lebanon.
Compared to the previous building, Minoletti wanted to move the construction back to give vent to the large tree and also to allow visibility of the Church of San Marco.
