ALLIANZ Tower | Arata Isozaki + Andrea Maffei | Milan, Italy | HD | drone view

• Architects
Arata Isozaki , Andrea Maffei
• Location
Milan, Italy
• Client
Citylife S.p.A. / Armando Borghi, Marco Beccati - project director, Roberta Pasinetti - technical director, Roberto Russo, Andrea Zerbini, Gianni Armas, Martino Negri,
• Area
81615.0 sqm
• Project Year
2015
• Photographs
Alessandra Chemollo
• Design Team
Pietro Bertozzi, Takeshi Miura, Alessandra De Stefani, Chiara Zandri, Vincenzo Carapellese, Roberto Balduzzi, Francesca Chezzi, Takatoshi Oki, Stefano Bergagna, Paolo Evolvi, Elisabetta Borgiotti, Davide Cazzaniga, Adolfo Berardozzi, Hidenari Arai, Higaki Seisuke, Taro Hayashi, Takuichiro Yamamoto, Giuliano Godoli, Giorgio Ramponi, Carlotta Maranesi, Atsuko Suzuki, Sofia Bedynski, Antonietta Bavaro, Mauro Mazzali, Sofia Cattinari, Haruna Watanabe, Madoka Tomita, Ayako Fujisawa
• Structure
competition: Mutsuro Sasaki, Hiroki Kume, Takeshi Suzuki / Sasaki and Partners, Tokyo; project: Maurizio Teora, Luca Buzzoni, David Scott, Matteo Baffetti, Valeria Migliori, Francesco Petrella, Angelo Mussi / Arup, Milano and New York, basement structures: Holzner Bertagnolli, Cap Engineering
• Facades
Mikkel Kragh, Mauricio Cardenas, Matteo Orlandi, Maria Meizoso, Carlos Prada / Arup Milano and Madrid
• Plants
competition: P.T. Morimura, Tokyo, project: Gianfranco Ariatta, Roberto Menghini, Riccardo Lucchese, Sylvia Zoppo Vigna, Andrea Ambrosi / Ariatta Ingegneria dei sistemi, Milano
• Fire Project
ing. Salvatore Mistretta, Milano
• Vertical Transportation
Hans Jappsen / Jappsen Ingenieure, Frankfurt
• Lighting Design
LPA – Light Planners Associates, Tokyo
• LEED certification
Fabio Viero, Gioargio Butturini / Manens-Tifs s.p.a.
• Project Management
Giorgio Montagna, Valentina Guagenti, Francesca Milani, Valentina Grassi / J&A, Milano, Alberto Ferrari, Pietro Baccarelli / Ramboll, London
• General Contractors
Colombo Costruzioni S.p.A. , Focchi S.p.A.
• Construction Manager
Claudio Guido / In.Pro s.r.l.
• Construction Documents
Andrea Matricardi / Mpartner, Franco Mola / ECDS, Francesco Iorio / Studio Iorio, Michele Capè / Studio Capè, Ariatta Ingegneria dei Sistemi
• Construction Security
Donato Bertoncelli / Gestione Progetti
• Cost Control
Aldo Bottini, Stefano Rocca / BMS Progetti
Text description provided by the architects. Milan is the city that best represents the international face of Italy, comparable to London, Frankfurt, Paris. Unlike many historical Italian cities, Milan is more related to its development in the nineteenth and twentieth century, to be more precise after the industrial revolution.
In this sense, design in Milan is compared with the more contemporary face of Italy, made up of factories, subways, concrete and steel and not so much of particular historical presences. Witness is the fact that the Futurist movement has developed mainly in Milan, a movement created to respond to the issues of the contemporary city. It was not a particularly important relationship with the large existing masterpieces, but rather a reflection on the themes of the contemporary