(ANSA) – MILAN, MAY 10 – The new Michelangelo tower that will rise in Milan a few steps from the Central Station, in Piazza Luigi di Savoia, will be 93 meters high, slightly less than the Madonnina del Duomo. The building will take the place of the Michelangelo hotel, built between the 1950s and 1960s, 67 meters high for over 300 rooms, which was the first Covid hotel in Europe in the first months of the pandemic.
At the base of the 22 new office floors, plus four underground levels, the entire square will be redeveloped with 900 square meters of new green areas, rest and relaxation areas, a reorganization of the road network, extensive pedestrianization, velostations around the airport railway and new cycle paths that will connect the area with Corso Buenos Aires and Piazzale Loreto. The intervention should be completed by 2026, the year of the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics. It is a “courageous project” of “transversal interchange between past, present and future” explains the architect responsible for the project, Michele Rossi, co-founder of the Park Associati studio. The tower that “will be mirrored in the Pirelli skyscraper looks at the history of the city it once was, reinterpreting its character and transporting it to what is to come: a new Milan”.
The ultra-modern building will have a “three-dimensional dynamic facade”, says the architect, which will give a “different perception of the building depending on the point from which you look”. The intervention “will change the skyline of the city”, notes Finleonardo’s project manager, Diego Imperiale, with “a green building, in line with the objectives of the circular economy” and a new square that will be “modern, sustainable and functional”. The planned investment is 90 million euros, while urbanization costs will be 4.2 million. The demolition works will begin shortly “according to the highest technological standards, to minimize the impact on the surroundings”, assured the architect Rossi. (HANDLE).
Source: Ansa
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