The 5 most innovative skyscrapers under construction in Milan The new protagonists of the city skyline

Milan is a city with two souls: alongside monuments and historic buildings, traditional courtyards and sixteenth-century Navigli areas, contemporary masterpieces of architecture and design are growing more and more, becoming protagonists of the city skyline starting from the complex of Piazza Gae Aulenti and Porta Nuova and now increasingly widespread in the city. The horizon of Milan will gain new (and very high) profiles in the coming years with a construction program that will immensely enrich the architectural heritage of the city, helping to make it one of the most modern and advanced in Europe. This vast campaign of interventions is not only due to the large presence of investors but also to the firm desire to make Milan the first smart city in Italy carrying out projects that are not limited to pure architecture but also concern the social and environmental fabric in which the buildings are located. 

To tell the future of architecture in the city, nss magazine has chosen five of the key urban development projects in Milan that symbolize the type of sustainable and smart innovation that the whole city is pursuing. 

Pirelli93 Building

This is the official name of the new headquarters of A2A, in Piazza Trento, which with its 147 meters in height will change the horizon of the city. At the moment the project has reportedly been put on hold, as the municipality wants to make it the epicentre of urban regeneration of the entire neighbourhood with a district heating network that will be available for the neighbourhood that wants to be testimony, together with the sustainability of the building, of the energy efficiency objectives that the company has set itself. Visually speaking, the building will stand out for its tubular shape, with a 60-meter open slit in the middle from which hanging gardens will be visible. The building serves to group under a single roof all the offices of the energy supplier, but according to some rumours the top of the skyscraper will be equipped with a sky garden and a viewpoint accessible to the public.