CityLife (Milan)
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| Location | Bounded by: Viale Berengario, Viale Cassiodorio, Viale Duilio, Piazzale Giulio Cesare, Via Ambrogio Spinola, Via Senofonte, Via Severino Boezio Milan, Italy |
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| Status | Under construction |
| Groundbreaking | 2007 |
| Estimated completion | 2018 |
| Website | city-life.it |
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| Architect |
Arata Isozaki & Associates Studio Daniel Libeskind Zaha Hadid Architects Andrea Maffei Architects ARUP Gustafson Porter One Works Ove Arup !melk |
| Contractor | Tre Torri Contractor |
| Developer | Generali Group |
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| Cost | €523 million |
| Size | 36.6 ha (90 acres) |
CityLife is a residential, commercial and business district under construction in a short distance from the old city centre of Milan, Italy, involving an area of 36.6 ha.
The development is being carried out by a company controlled by Generali Group, that won the international tender for the redevelopment of the historic neighborhood of Fiera Milano with an offer of €523 million. The project is designed by famous architects Zaha Hadid, Arata Isozaki and Daniel Libeskind.
The new exhibition centre in Rho-Pero opened in 2005, 85 years after the first Trade Fair in April 1920. The Fiera’s move outside Milan benefitted the city by eliminating traffic problems caused by big events and by freeing up a highly valuable area. An international tender for the redevelopment of the old Fiera area, seeking to create an unprecedented level of connectivity with the surrounding urban context, concluded in 2004. The CityLife project won the competition due to the high level of architectural and environmental quality it offered.
The 20 exhibition halls, with a total volume of about 2.5 million cubic metres, were demolished and submit to remediation in 2007 and 2008. Painstaking efforts were made to protect and recover the area’s stock of trees, 120 of which were saved and relocated in the public parks over Milan. Since 2007 a Permanent Environmental Observatory has worked to protect the surrounding districts. Administered by local public authorities, it controls the noise, dust and environmental impact during all stages of construction, using among other things, sound-absorbing and dust protective.
The project involves the construction of three skyscrapers, with dedicated areas for offices, stores, restaurants and services. The luxury residential area will cover about 164,000 square metres, with around 1,300 apartments (housing about 4,500 people). In addition, more than 50% of the available area, 170,000 square metres are dedicated to green spaces. There will also be underground parking space for around 7,000 vehicles. Further to the existing public transportation network, the CityLife area will be served by a new extension of the metro line 5, with a dedicated station at the centre of the Piazza Tre Torri.
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