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Overview

CityLife is one of Europe’s largest urban regeneration developments, transforming Milan’s former fairground and exhibition district into a major mixed-use destination comprising commercial towers, residential buildings, retail, public realm, and extensive landscaped open space across approximately 37 hectares. The development features three landmark towers: Il Dritto (“The Straight One”) by Arata Isozaki, Lo Storto (“The Twisted One”) by Zaha Hadid, Il Curvo (“The Curved One”) by Daniel Libeskind While at Ramboll Group, as Project Director, Shonn Mills lead the multi-disciplinary engineering team, working in collaboration with J&A Consultants (Milan). His involvement included project management, value engineering, multidisciplinary technical review, and Owner’s Engineer services across the initial three tower developments. Subsequently, Shonn Mills acted as Project Director for the international design competition and concept design phases of the CityWave development by BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group, including the integration of the signature catenary-shaped canopy structure linking the development’s commercial buildings and public realm spaces. This project was not undertaken by WWM Design Pte Ltd. The experience described above was gained by members of our team through their roles with previous employers.

Credits : BIG

Project Details

Project Details

City

City

Milan, Italy

Milan, Italy

Client

Client

Generali Real Estate

Generali Real Estate

Architect

Architect

Zaha Hadid, BIG, Daniel Libeskind, Arata Isozaki

Zaha Hadid, BIG, Daniel Libeskind, Arata Isozaki

Prior Experience

Prior Experience

Multi Discipline Engineering, Concept

Multi Discipline Engineering, Concept

Type

Type

Large-scale Mixed-use, Urban redevelopment & Public realm

Large-scale Mixed-use, Urban redevelopment & Public realm

Area

Area

366,000 m²

366,000 m²

Overview

CityLife is one of Europe’s largest urban regeneration developments, transforming Milan’s former fairground and exhibition district into a major mixed-use destination comprising commercial towers, residential buildings, retail, public realm, and extensive landscaped open space across approximately 37 hectares. The development features three landmark towers: Il Dritto (“The Straight One”) by Arata Isozaki, Lo Storto (“The Twisted One”) by Zaha Hadid, Il Curvo (“The Curved One”) by Daniel Libeskind While at Ramboll Group, as Project Director, Shonn Mills lead the multi-disciplinary engineering team, working in collaboration with J&A Consultants (Milan). His involvement included project management, value engineering, multidisciplinary technical review, and Owner’s Engineer services across the initial three tower developments. Subsequently, Shonn Mills acted as Project Director for the international design competition and concept design phases of the CityWave development by BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group, including the integration of the signature catenary-shaped canopy structure linking the development’s commercial buildings and public realm spaces. This project was not undertaken by WWM Design Pte Ltd. The experience described above was gained by members of our team through their roles with previous employers.

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