Basilicas Park silver maple ("A. saccharinum"), European hornbeam ("Carpinus betulus"), cherry plum ("Prunus cerasifera"), European beech ("Fagus sylvatica"), French oak ("Quercus robur"), several species of elm ("Ulmus"), black poplar ("Populus nigra"), European black pine ("Pinus nigra"), London plane ("Platanus × acerifolia"), and pagoda tree ("Sophora japonica"). Basilicas Park Parco Papa Giovanni Paolo II ("Pope John Paul II Park"), best known by its historic name Basilicas Park (Parco delle Basiliche in Italian) is a city park of Milan, Italy, located in Zone 1. It owes its name to the fact that it connects two major basilicas, the Basilica of San Lorenzo and the
Fagus Factory one year before starting work on the Fagus factory) that architects should take account of the way the speed of modern transportation affects the way architecture is perceived. Gropius had also commented the subject in his writings. According to the historian of architecture Annemarie Jaeggi these thoughts were important in the design of Fagus: "The animated fluctuation in height, the change between horizontal structure and vertical rhythms, heavy closed volumes and light dissolved fabrics, are indicators of an approach that deliberately utilized contrasts while arriving at a harmony of opposites in a manner best expressed as a pictorial or visual