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| Milan of the future shown at the Venice Architecture Biennale  The Italian real estate company Risanamento presents the former Falck Area in Sesto San Giovanni by Renzo Piano and Milano Santa Giulia by Norman Foster at the 10th Architecture Biennale in Venice. The exhibition is entitled "Cities within the city. Build today the Milan of the future". Milano Santa Giulia, whose design was commissioned to Norman Foster, will cover an area of 1,200,000 square metres in the south-eastern area of Milan.The first major intervention in Milan for over 50 years, this urban centre combines housing, offices, shops, restaurants and cafes with cultural facilities such as a Congress Centre and Exhibition Hall. More than a new district, it will represent a true “city within the city”, located in a strategic position between Milan's historical centre, the Tangenziale ring road, and Linate airport. It will become a new pole, an alternative to Milan's traditional city centre, but easy to reach and complete with all services, and it will be attractive, functional and eminently liveable. Essential to the logic of the masterplan is the creation of generous green spaces and a large central park that is a green lung of the city. In the former Falck area in Sesto San Giovanni, completely redesigned by Renzo Piano, Risanamento will construct a project that will change the face of the city of Sesto, with a significant effect on the entire Milanese metropolitan area. On the disused industrial estate of the Falck steelworks, over an area of 1,300,000 square metres, a new city will be built, set in a park of over a million square metres, in a harmonious balance between industrial archaeology and futuristic towers suspended in the greenery. The Venice Architecture Biennale runs from 10 September – 19 November 2006. write your comments about the article :: © 2006 Construction News :: home page |