On Thursday, November 30th will be inaugurated a part of the public park and the new shopping centre of CityLife,
The redevelopment project of the trade fair in the Portello district, in the North west area of Milan. The work has not yet ended and for this the shipyard is working at extraordinary rates, according to the Corriere della Sera 20 hours a day. The project was designed by three very famous architects: Arata Isozaki, Daniel Libeskind and Zaha Hadid. In addition to the three towers named after the three architects, the project foresees many other things, including a city park, which once finished will be the third of the city by size, after Parco Sempione and the public gardens of Porta Venezia. The total pedestrian area will be among the largest in Europe, because the cars will and can be parked only in the basement floors. In the project is also planned the realization of a museum of contemporary art and a bicycle and pedestrian path, which will connect CityLife to the Parco Sempione on one side, and on the other to the artificial hills of the hatch area. The area is already in the process of transferring of three thousand employees of Allianz, to whom the general ones will be added next year: The two insurance groups are those that control the company CityLife. From Thursday, instead, the shopping areas will be open to the public, which will begin to give life to the district and that can be reached by Metro Lille: The shopping centre was designed by Hadid and draws the images of a wood, with columns and their coatings I N Bamboo. There will be no shops only: there is a health area, where a diagnostic centre and a chiropractor study are to be opened, and a multiplex cinema.
Source: MilanoToday.it