Il Foglio publishes an article by Daniele Bonecchi, with a contribution by Stefano Boeri, which picks up on a publication by Time Out (an English trend magazine) in which the Isola district of Milan, the site of Boeri Studio’s Bosco Verticale, is listed among the ‘coolest’ districts in the world.
Developed between the second half of the 19th and the early 20th century, the district took its name from the construction of the railway in 1865 that divided and isolated it from the rest of the city. In 2005, the Municipality of Milan and Hines, the main private promoter of the project together with the municipality, signed the implementation agreement to redevelop the area. Today the skyscrapers, the Bosco Verticale, the green spaces, the Library of Trees, and the Unicredit Tower have become symbols of the new Milan.
“It is a very interesting example, the Isola district, of what a city should be, with the possibility of zones and neighbourhoods with a great diversity of using the spaces they share. It has become a meeting point where different cities overlook each other. Corso Como reaches as far as Corso Garibaldi and the city centre, it has retained the character of a fashionable district. Then towards Garibaldi station, with an essential junction for Milanese mobility. The Varesine area is more linked to the management system, the hotels, the Pirellino, the Galfa tower, the business centre. Isola has become a meeting point for different people and lifestyles,’ says Stefano Boeri.
To read the full article: https://www.ilfoglio.it/gran-milano/2023/11/04/news/l-isola-felice-storia-e-idee-del-quartiere-di-milano-nella-top-ten-mondiale-delle-zone-cool-5861278/