Ulisse Stacchini (Florence 1871 - Sanremo 1947) was an italian architect His major work is Milan Central Station Location within Italy Florence (Italian, Firenze) is a city in the center of Tuscany, in central Italy at 43°46′ N 11°15′ E. The city on the Arno River has a population of around 400,000, plus a suburban population in excess of 200,000. ... Sanremo (sometimes wrongly written San Remo) is a town of some 50,000 inhabitants on the Mediterranean coast of western Liguria in northwestern Italy. ... A view of the façade of the Station in the afternoon Milan Central Station (in Italian, Stazione Centrale di Milano or Milano Centrale) is one of the main European train stations. ...
King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy laid the cornerstone of the new station on April 28, 1906, before a blueprint for the station had even been chosen.
The last, real, contest for its construction was won in 1912 by architect UlisseStacchini, whose design was modeled after Union Station in Washington, DC, and the construction of the new station began.
Due to the Italian economic crisis during World War I, construction proceeded very slowly, and the project, rather simple at the beginning, kept changing and became more and more complex and majestic.
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