CityLife

more pictures .:. A large public park and three skyscrapers have taken the place of most of the FieraMilano historic fair ground in the north-western area of the city. The development was launched under the name of CityLife in 2004, and included three high-rise buildings designed by starchitects Zaha Hadid, Arata Isozaki and Daniel Libeskind..
.:. The three buildings – after which the Tre Torri ("Three Towers") subway station is named – took the popular nicknames of Lo Storto ("The Twisted One"), designed by Hadid for the Generali insurance company, Il Dritto ("The Straight One"), by Isozaki for Allianz, another insurer, and Il Curvo ("The Curved One") by Libeskind for PricewaterhouseCoopers, a multinational professional services brand. All of these buildings were completed by 2020, and are easily identifiable on the spot because of their nicknames.
.:. The Tre Torri subway station introduces directly to the CityLife shopping district, itself worth a walk – although partly subterranean – under the towers. Yet the real attraction is the park itself, one of the largest urban pedestrianized areas in Europe. Its limits include large and elegant sets of apartment buildings, the most outstanding of which, designed by Hadid for the south-eastern corner of the greenery, is frequently photographed by visitors for the curved lines that are typical of the Iraqi-British starchitect.
.:. None of the three skyscrapers can be visited. Rumours have that none of them is fully in use, particularly after the Covid-19 pandemic has reduced office occupancy worldwide.

Tre Torri