The Domus guide to CityLife
CityLife is located in a roughly square-shaped area. That’s why it’s so easy to spot on a satellite image of Milan – just like Parco Sempione and the Cimitero Monumentale. The area took on this shape in the nineteenth century to accommodate the Piazza d’Armi, which was moved from the Castello Sforzesco. In it hosted the International Exposition, and from it became the site of the Fiera Campionaria, becoming increasingly dense with many permanent and temporary structures. It kept this function until For almost a century and a half, the CityLife area has been clearly and deliberately separated from the middle-class residential areas that have developed on its edges over time.
Opening up the area and integrating it into the city is one of the challenges that CityLife has faced and continues to face, a challenge shared by Porta Nuova, which was built on a former railway yard. However, there’s a difference between the two. Porta Nuova, built exactly between the old city and the former working-class district of Isola, effectively removed the railroad tracks – a historic barrier – and allowed the quality and vitality of the city center to expa
CityLife Milano Residential Complex
CityLife Milano Residential Complex, Torre Hadid, Architect, Tower Project Design, Images
Italian Housing Tower Building Development – design by Zaha Hadid Architects
3 Apr
CityLife Residential Complex Milan by Zaha Hadid
CityLife Milano Residential Complex by Zaha Hadid
Design: Zaha Hadid Architects
Following the recent death of architect Zaha Hadid we post information and photos of the CityLife Milano Residential Complex, with the photographs shot a few weeks ago.
Photographs: Simon Garcia |
The Citylife project located in the heart of Milan – in the centre of the historic fiera area immersed in a park of , square metres (one of Europe’s largest pedestrianized zones) — involves a group of architects rather than a single designer: Zaha Hadid, Arata Isozaki and Daniel Libeskind.
Citylife brings to the urban context a new model for work and leisure, an area to be enjoyed on foot or by bicycle, with traffic circulating only underground.
At the centre of the project is the business district — three office towers in the ‘piazza delle tre torri’: torre Isozaki (il dritto, the straight one), torre Hadid (lo storto, the twi
Zaha Hadid Architects
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- Milan, Italy
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- City Life Consortium
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- 7 buildings units m2 gross surface
- 2 storey underground car parking m2
The Residential plot is composed of 7 linear buildings set along a continuous path around two land areas: Rc1, including buildings C1- C2-C3 and Rc2 with buildings C4-C5-C6-C7. The land areas are divided by a strip of public park.
The buildings can accommodate up to luxury apartments, with common facilities.
The skyline of the residential complex is defined and characterized by a sinuous fluid line. The roof outline raises continuously from building to building, starting from 5-storey C2 building facing Piazza Giulio Cesare it reaches its maximum height at building C6 13th floor, thus ideally setting a unified and unique skyline.
Great care has been given to site and buildings orientation, taking into account environmental and comfort requirements
so that most apartments face south-east and at the same time allocate the best views from the terraces, towards the city or the public park.
The façades design involves continuity and fluidity: the volumetric envelope of the buildings is defined by a curvilinear
Citylife Apartments / Zaha Hadid Architects
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Text description provided by the architects. The skyline of Zaha Hadid’s CityLifeMilano housing complex is defined and characterized by a sinuous fluid line. Residences are comprised of seven curved buildings of varying heights, from 5 to 13 floors. The distinctive architectural elements include a serpentine movement of the curved balconies and the profile of the roofs, which provide a soft and elegant shape for all of the top-floor penthouses, complete with extensive covered terraces. Construction of the residential complex began in august , with delivery of the first apartments scheduled for
Great care has been given to the site and building orientation, taking into account environmental and comfort requirements so that most apartments face south-east and at the same time allocate the best views from the terraces, towards the city or the public park.
Façade materials – fiber concrete panels and natural wood panels – emphasize the complex’s volumetric movement and at the same time give a private and domestic
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