Linate airport is the second airport of Milan, a true city airport because of its closeness with the town center.
It is an international airport with one terminal and two runways, one of which is reserved for commercial traffic and the other for general aviation.
The original name of the airport is Enrico Forlanini, an aviation pioneer, but it is better known with the name of the town in whose territory it is located, Linate. 
The airport was built in the 1930s, when it became absolutely necessary for Milan to have a much better equipped airport than the Taliedo airfield (built in 1910 and located in the Mecenate area).
The first hangar started to be built in 1936 after Gianluigi Giordani’s project. It is a single span building 235 meters wide and 64 meters deep.
The project is based on a grid of pillars, which become the elements of a colonnade.
The continuity and consistency of the space, regularly divided by the pillars, are interrupted by the entrance and exit doors and the bridges for luggage. The glass surface of the façade stretches over several floors. The architect paid great attention to the relationship with the existing buildings of the airport and carefully avoided interfering with them, considering the already complex and chaotic situation of the airport.
How to get there: By car: Tangenziale Est; Buses from Brescia, Pavia, Verona and Lugano. Shuttle buses from Milano: San Babila, ATM line 73; Staz. Centrale; Fiera Rho; Malpensa
Modern architecture in the surrounding areas: Segrate Town Hall; Mondadori Building; Officine del Volo
Useful information: Telephone: 02.74852200
Sources: Alberto Ferlenga (a cura di), Aldo Rossi. Tutte le opere, Electa, Milano 1999
Marco Brandolisio, Giovanni Da Pozzo, Massimo Scheurer, Michele Tadini, Itinerario domus: Aldo Rossi in Italia Settentrionale, in Domus n. 805, 1998
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