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HuntonBrady Architects releases a new poster every year for the holidays for clients and the city. Each poster is a pen and ink depiction of some architectural wonder in the world. This year's poster depicts the Piazza del Duomo, the main square of Milan, Italy. (See full poster above and three close-ups below) The firm's Principal Clyde A. Brady III, FAIA, started the holiday poster tradition in 1980 and for 20 years shared his intricate pen and ink images of prominent European cathedrals and institutions with the public through these posters. A collection was displayed at The Octagon in Washington D.C., the house designed in 1799 by Dr. William Thornton, first architect of the U.S. Capitol.
When Brady retired in 2000, Design Principal Maurizio J. Maso, AIA, continued the firm’s tradition with doing watercolor sketches of churches and main city centers. The 2010 Holiday Poster depicts the Piazza del Duomo, the main square of Milan, Italy and home to some of the most celebrated architecture (and people-watching) in the world. The poster includes the Duomo di Milano or Milan Cathedral (the largest Gothic cathedral in the world), the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II glass-roofed shopping mall (an elegant place to dine and shop designed in the late 1800s by Giuseppe Mengoni, famous for its glass ceiling and art) and Ercole Rosa's 1896 equestrian monument to Vittorio Emanuele II.
