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Ermenegildo Zegna HQ / ACPV ARCHITECTS Antonio Citterio Patricia Viel + Beretta Associati

Daniela Cardenas — Fri, 09 Sep 2016 02:00:00 +0000

The former Riva Calzoni re-conversion, in Milan, has produced a business district, almost entirely dedicated to the fashion field, through a new interpretation of industrial areas of a peculiar worth.

Bosco Verticale / Boeri Studio

Daniel Sánchez — Mon, 23 Nov 2015 04:00:00 +0000

The first example of a ‘Vertical Forest’ (il Bosco Verticale) was inaugurated in October 2014 in Milan in the Porta Nuova Isola area, as part of a wider renovation project led by Hines Italia. Milan’s Vertical Forest consists of two towers of 80 and 112 metres, hosting 480 large and medium trees, 300 small trees, 11,000 perennial and covering plants and 5,000 shrubs. The equivalent - over an urban surface of 1,500 m2 – of 20,000 m2 of forest and undergrowth.

ALLIANZ Tower / Arata Isozaki + Andrea Maffei

Karen Valenzuela — Mon, 16 Nov 2015 03:00:00 +0000

Milan is the city that best represents the international face of Italy, comparable to London, Frankfurt, Paris. Unlike many historical Italian cities, Milan is more related to its development in the nineteenth and twentieth century, to be more precise after the industrial revolution.