Why Milan Has 8 Orange Igloos 

Never has Tim traveller had a bad episode.

Allegedly, the architect responsible for the preservation of the remaining iglo's in the 1960's is called Luigi Figini.

1. Tim Traveller Theme 2. Grand Designs 3. Dad's Army 4. Keeping Up Appearances 5. Pingu 6. Grand Designs (again) 7. Mario Theme 8. Wish you were here Utter class as usual. Thanks Tim.

I like the (tourist-)bus in the beginning with "Timvision" written on it. And the rest of the video of course.

I was born and raised in Milan and never heard about these buildings before. I have been riding those old trams for years, though, and they are truly something from the past which I hope will stay for as long as possible in my city.

“The Igloos of Milan” sounds a bit like an episode of Doctor Who. Nice!

I'm going to assume the problem they were meant to solve was dust piling into corners of rooms.

Excellent - I nearly spat out my tea when the “mario growing because he ate a mushroom noise” appeared! The Italians certainly had classy prefabs!

This reminds me of the "Teletubbies houses" in Sleman, Yogyakarta. After the dealy 2006 Yogyakarta earthquake, the gov build dome houses as a solution for an earthquake-resistant house in Sleman area. They paint them in many colors and are now known as "the Teletubbies house" and became a tourist attraction.

I love your piano music, you always put so many references in it and it sounds quite professional! Your videos really gain from that.

This looks like a great design for 3D printed homes. 🤔

This was a particularly entertaining episode. Well done, Tim!

No mention of the plumbing systems in these homes and whether they can be used to access secret cellars?

I spent a day in Milan just taking all the diferent trams and metros, so yeah, you know your audience

We have them in Warsaw, built in 1960s for exactly the same reason and also on the edge of a city which is now a cramped, concrete jungle. In Polish they are called "kopulaki" which translates to "domesies". And to go even further, most of them were already built over, just like these in Milan.

Anyone noticed the red TIM-van at 1:46 - I don't think it is in the video by accident

Loved it, Humor, Knowledge, and History are all on point!! Had a good laugh. For sure a place to pass by when in Milan.

Mario designed the igloos out of basic necessity however he just created the mushrooms because he was a fun guy..

"There is nothing more permanent than a temporary solution" quote from someone the internet is not sure about.

I really enjoy your content and your humor.

HOW THE HELL DID I MISS THE 1500 SERIES TRAM! My father was stationed at Aviano Air Base (In Aviano, near Pordenone) in the early 80's. My parents would periodically go down to Milan for the open air market day, and take us kids. I never saw that tram! We'd drive down, park, walk around a bit, then head back home. AAARRRGGG!!! [EDIT] I did get to eat pastries from some of the shops there. So, there is that. (And I do want to go back.)

Hi Tim, I have to say thank you once again. After the recent Consonno episode which made me discover an incredible and unknown place in my region, here you come again with another surprise for a citizen of Milan like me. I live just 150m away from Milan railway central station and I had never heard before about the existence of these "igloos" in my town. For sure I will go and have a look at them. Furthermore, I can confirm that our "tram" is a very successfull vehicle and it has become also an iconic symbol of San Francisco where ten of them were exported in the thirties. Thank's to Stefania as well and tell her to let the "forcone" apart

One of those trams is now in San Francisco as part of their heritage tram fleet (which also includes several painted like historic trolley lines from around the US), as well as trams from Melbourne, Osaka, Hamburg, Moscow, and an open-air "boat tram" from Blackpool.

I took the same tram in 2006, so well preserved, yet travelling along super modern ones.

The "grand designs" theme is genius .

I used to catch one of those Milan trams to work, in San Francisco. Tim really needs to visit California some day, not just for the many-ways-remarkable transport in SF, but for the mediocre mountains, like the Sutter Buttes. (There are fabulous mountains, too, but other RU-vidrs will handle those. 😉)

Yeah, right. Mushrooms. That house looks like a Blue Origin New Shepard and you know it.

100 year old trams; still a far superior solution to urban transport than the thousands of modern cars cramming the streets.

That tram is so damn spacious, those are some lucky riders.

I actually went to a very similar-feeling place recently: Burnham Block in Milwaukee, Wisconsin (USA), home to six prototypes for Frank Lloyd Wright’s abandoned prewar prefab house project. They’re quite pretty, in an “I would build this in Minecraft” sort of way, and still all in use. Though we had trouble finding all six because the one on the end has been remodeled-it still has some distinctive design elements, but the materials look very different. Also this was from before FLW became an asshole architecture diva with no actual concern for the livability of his homes, so I feel okay getting excited about them.

More Milan trams please. Railway lines. Igloos. Dodgy smartphone video. Brilliant. Cheers Tim.

Aw man I was hoping for some inside views. I can't imagine how these look on the inside. I understand ofc that the people living there might have different opinions on the matter of letting random people into their homes ;)

A fair number of the 1500 series trams are now running in San Francisco, on the E and F lines, with their original Milan paint schemes and interiors- though the bogies have been widened for 1435mm gauge. Most of the trams running on those lines are either from Milan or old SEPTA trams from Philadelphia.

Oh, NO! I'm earning a PhD in 'Tim-Traveller Video Analysis,' and I'm afraid I DID base my thesis regarding the impact of housing shortages in post-war Italy on home design! Flipping BORDER!

Cracked up at the Italian middle class family name of Secchiello (Bucket/Bouquet) Fascinating video, as always

I got three of the musical references this time! That feels like an accomplishment.

Protecting houses which were designed to be taken apart is a bit mad alright, but I'm delighted they are protected. Thanks for showing them to us.

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 "what is un forcone and where you want to put it?" had me good 🤣🤣🤣🤣

I'm gonna be honest with you, I haven't heard "un forcone nel c..." for the longest time and I genuinely laughed for a minute because of that!

Loved the “Dad’s Army” theme in the background 😊

As a Canadian, this video really speaks to me. Also those trams are gorgeous. The interior is so well maintained while remaining original in design

In the Netherlands we have cube houses in Helmond and Rotterdam and Spherical houses ‘Bolwoningen’ in ‘s Hertogenbosch. Rotterdam is an architectural wonderland. Helmond and Den Bosch are not that far apart cities in the province of North Brabant.

I’m from Milan and never knew about them! Of course that’s going to be the destination of my next free afternoon spent in town. Thanks!

Is that the "dad's army" theme music in the background??

1:47 Ha! Caught you! Pretenses of being like the rest of us. You and your production team came in your own luxurious company limousine, er, red builder van.

I love unusual homes like this. Have you been to the cube houses in Rotterdam? If not, you might like to, when I went, one of them was open as a show house, so we got to see inside.

We have quite similar igloos in Wrocław, Poland. Also experimental. And also created after WW2

Love your content. I especially enjoy the quirky and unconventional architecture. Please keep up the good work.

You are so gifted. You took a rather boring story and told it in such an interesting way… made me watch the entire video. You are amazing.

4:05 The top of the 'f' is already visible here

3:18 "Who do you think you are fooling Mister Hitler..." Nice touch, Tim!

I loved the Grand Design theme in the background, & the Dad's theme.

While the music from Mario Bros is very accurate here please beware that Nintendo will hunt you down for using their music. They have very bad rep on RU-vid.

Love the music from 2:01 onward :)

THE GRAND DESIGN THEME I CAN'T

Reminds me of Buckminster Fuller’s ideas of using geodesic domes for everything. Plus of course, the “Dymaxion House”.

Have you ever visited the cube houses (kubuswoningen) in Rotterdam, The Netherlands? One of them is open for visiting. They are weird cube shaped houses, balancing on one of the corners.

Can't believe I missed this the last time I was in Milan. Well, yeah actually I can.

in a funny coincidence, here in Texas there is a town named Italy and they have a company that makes igloo homes and just south of town is a housing development of igloo homes.

I really want to hear an all-piano cover of some more16-bit-era video game music now...

So. It has nothing to do with the video, but: My grandfather owned a shop together with his brother. He's tall and lanky, the brother was short and strong built. He'called Luigi, the brother was Mario. They were both plumbers. He has no idea what Super Mario is. I have no way to prove this on the internet, but I am, indeed, the nephew of the Super Mario brothers.

Great video, but be careful comparing Italian people to Nintendo characters, in Australia that can get you arrested by a counter-terrorist squad (a la friendlyjordies).

France tried something a bit like this, having a famous designer come up with homes for all that ALL looked alike. They were supposed to stay looking alike, only humans did not share his grand vision and started painting them any color they wanted and adding porches and gardens and the famous modern designer was MOST upset.

4:42 Pingu 🤣👍🏻. I get it, iglo, Pingu....

Has there ever been a "temporary" fix that held up very well until the end, and was then demolisished as planned? I only know stories of quick fixes that never get replaced (thinking about you, PACER TRAIN)

The house is located in a neighborhood called Maggiolina, where they did lots of architectural experimentation, there are a lot of strange houses and villas some very pretty some less, it's nice to go there on a fresh day and wander around

BRILLIANT usage of the Keeping Up Appearances theme song :D

I heard _Dad's Army,_ _Pingu_ and the Mario theme (and powerup sound) in there.

Love the Grand Designs theme. I can just imagine Kevin meeting with a family that have a spare £875,000 and wish to convert their igloo into a fashionable 5 bedroom modern home. They start off converting all the walls to glass, installing underfloor heating, the wife becomes pregnant, and they divorce having gone £2.5million over budget after borrowing from every family member they have. Good viewing.

A bit offtopic maybe, but I have one of these synchronicities going on: On Friday, a friend unexpectedly took me to see a monument to Don Juan of Austria (Victor of Lepanto, 1571), yesterday for a school project I had to look up Pope Pius V. (turns out he was the instigator of Lepanto, 1571) and now Tim takes us to the Via Lepanto in Milan.

Oh look,you're in my hood! Great video Tim,also enjoyed the gratuitous shots of the trams that I would otherwise see going around in the city centre

In case you are interested in more circular homes in Milan: it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casa_a_tre_cilindri

Richard and Hyacinth Bucket in 1946. Well played.

Tim: "Hello and ciao ragazzi" F1 Fans: *GRAZIE RAGAZZI INTENSIFIES*

So basically an example of "nothing is as permanent as a temporary solution" ?

"Why Does Milan Have 8 Orange Igloos?" So the answer to that question is because 4 more of them have been demolished ;)

4:15 - 4:28 the conversation of Riccardo and Gianita with a stick british accent killed me!

Can we tip you some money for a camera? Happily send some money your way :)

It’s not on a pillar? Then gtfo. nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolwoning

Looks like the flintstones house near Palo Alto California.

Cheapy and quickly built homes at 4:30 First its Red Road Flats in Glasgow which when blown up two towers failed to collapse. Then its Park Hill Estate in Sheffield, now Grade II* listed, then its somewhere in Eastern Europe by the looks of it!

I've heard that concrete domes and curves are making a comeback due to new technology --- now they're inflatable! What you do is to make a large plastic bladder, inflate it, and then spray it with multiple layers of concrete. Once the concrete sets you deflate the bladder and remove it, cut doors and windows, and you have a strong, thin structure in futuristic-looking organic shapes. They're cheap and quick to put up, too.

Did anyone else notice the bus in the very beginning was advertising TimVision? Are you getting another channel?

I live just behind the Central Station of Milan. I have a relative that lives in one of these.

Love Dad's Amy, Keeping up with Appearances, and Mario Brothers themes. What are the rest?

1:28 and the tram goes : _______ : it looks so indifferent about its journey

With those trams, one could almost be in Lisboa.

In the UK we built prefabs! In Italy the built Igloos! I know which one I'd rather live in!

Love your videos Tim, love the theme songs, the jokes, the tone, your personality, you are amazing! Mamma mia! That is a remain of the Mushroom Kingdom! 😂

What's old is new, the "tiny" house trend.

Why didn’t more people like them?! They look cool! Do they have some awful design flaw that makes them unpleasant?

I think Mario was on magic mushrooms.

Well... whatever Pingu was doing in 1946 Milan, I'm glad hes safely lived on.

There’s nothing so permanent as a temporary solution.

Nice episode Tim. Really love them, always learning a thing or two. These houses reminds of the the Bolwoningen in 's-Hertogenbosch (Netherlands). You should visit them once.

aren't igloos made of snow?

Getting real grand design feels from the background music!

Not exactly the classy end of town. Well done for going where I imagine the tourists don’t normally tread.

This Mario building mushrooms predates Super Mario. Was super Mario somehow inspired at these??

4:33 that looks familiar. looks outside....