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post updated 13 February 2026

Milan Architecture Designs – chronological list

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19 December 2025
Como 1907 Training Centre Interior
Architects: Pardini Hall Architecture

photo : Carlo Carossio

12 December 2025
Malpensa Hospital Milan Building Design
Design: Zaha Hadid Architects

render : X Universal

5 December 2025
Canada Goose Flagship
Architects: Snøhetta

photo : Ludovic Balay

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5 + 3 November 2025
San Siro Building
San Siro football stadium, nicknamed La Scala del calcio, with a seating capacity of 75,817. The building is the largest stadium in Italy and one of the largest stadiums in Europe:

photos © Daniel Lomholt-Welch
AC Milan and Inter have finalised the purchase of their San Siro stadium and confirmed plans to demolish and replace it with a 71,500-capacity arena, report the BBC.

The demolition of San Siro, widely regarded as one of the world’s most prestigious football stadiums, has been mooted for years as its condition has deteriorated over time.

9 October 2025
Cortina Olympic Village, Porta Romana district
Architects: SOM

photo : Dave Burk © SOM

25 September 2025
Triennale di Milano, Parco Sempione – Palazzo dell’Arte building renovation

photo : Delfino Sisto Legnani-DSL Studio – per le opere courtesy Galleria Massimo Minini e Studio Alberto Garutti
The Triennale di Milano is a museum of art and design in Parco Sempione in Milan, in Lombardy in northern Italy. It is housed in the Palazzo dell’Arte, built between 1931 and 1933 to designs by Giovanni Muzio and financed by Antonio Bernocchi and his brothers Andrea and Michele.

7 April 2025
Aevum installation at Milan University
Design: Zaha Hadid Architects

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Milan Architecture News 2024

Contemporary Milanese buildings designs. Modern Lombardy built environment updates in northwest Italy, Europe.

Milan Architecture News in 2024

1 May 2024
Roberto Rocca Innovation Building in Milan
Design: Filippo Taidelli Architects

13 February 2024
Nude Project Shop in Milan, Porta Ticinese
Design: El Departamento

25 May 2024
Duomo di Milano, P.za del Duomo

photo : Stephen Welch
Milan Cathedral, or Metropolitan Cathedral-Basilica of the Nativity of Saint Mary, is the cathedral church of Milan, Lombardy, Italy. Dedicated to the Nativity of St. Mary, it is the seat of the Archbishop of Milan, currently Archbishop Mario Delpini.

Milano CityLife District

photos : Stephen Welch
The three skyscrapers are known as “le Tre Torre” (the three towers).
Generali Tower Building in Milan

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photograph : Stephen Welch

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Milan Building News

Milan Architectural News in 2023

19 Apr 2023
Casa Calipso, via Tolstoi 87
Design: Degli Esposti Architetti

photo : Maurizio Montagn
Casa Calipso is the intervention in question has been designed as a building replacement through the demolition of a building for commercial use, consisting of a basement and an above-ground floor within a lot at Via Leone Tolstoi 87, at the corner of the private road Via Tagiura.

31 March 2023
Nutura Pavilion by Benedetta Tagliabue – EMBT Architects at the Fuori Salone, Università degli studi di Milano, Via Festa del Perdono 7

image courtesy of architects practice
Roca returns to Fuorisalone with a pavilion by Benedetta Tagliabue – EMBT Architects re-experiencing nature and paying tribute to 20th century Barcelona architecture. Nutura Pavilion can be visited in the courtyard of the Università degli studi di Milano within the framework of Fuorisalone 2023.

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Milanese Property Developments

Milan Architectural News in 2022

21 Dec 2022
Hotel NH Collection Milano CityLife, Via Colleoni, 14, CityLife area
Restoration Design: QuattroAssociati

photo : Pianca&Partners
Redesigning Holiness in Milan: a former 1930s church has been transformed into an artistic and architectural masterpiece to host the new Hotel NH Collection Citylife. Following the conversion of a deconsecrated church, a new design-led hospitality venue, restored by architectural firm QuattroAssociati, blends old and new, with original features sitting alongside new installations.

25 November 2022
De Castillia 23, Isola district
Design: Progetto CRM

image courtesy of architects practice
CTBUH – Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, the prestigious US research institute founded in 1969, has assigned the Award of Excellence 2022 to the building De Castillia 23 in Milan, in the “Best Tall Building under 100 meters” category. Every year, skyscrapers all over the world are selected by a special jury according to the requisites of excellence, innovation and creativity, and compete as finalists in their related award categories.

3 Aug 2022
MoLo Mobility and Logistic hub Milan, Lambretta Park, Lambrate district
Design: MAD Architects

Renders: MAD
Set along the western boundary of the Milano Innovation District (MIND) — a recently developed neighborhood bringing together cutting-edge scientific research and education, business, and leisure facilities northwest of central Milan, Italy — led by Chinese Architect Ma Yansong, MAD Architects has unveiled renderings of a monumental gateway complex.

9 Jun 2022
Handmade rug collections for ILLULIAN, Salone del Mobile
Design: Zaha Hadid Architects

photo courtesy of architects office

8 Jun 2022
Magnifica Fabbrica Milan for La Scala, Lambrate district
Design: FRPO, Walk, and the SD Partners studio

image courtesy of architects practice
Milan, a metropolis in constant movement, dynamic and productive, always reinventing itself, today opens its secret heart. A heart in which others beat, with different rhythms, moved by skillful hands that forge treasures invisible to most.

8 Jun 2022
Energy Park, Milan Botanical Garden
Design: CRA and Italo Rota

photo : Marco Beck Peccoz
CRA and Italo Rota unveil Feeling the Energy, a project that turns Milan’s Botanical Garden into an energy park, exploring multiple forms of energy production and consumption. The project employs over 500 meters of digitally bent copper pipe with antimicrobial properties.

9 May 2022
IRCCS San Raffaele Hospital
Design: MC A – Mario Cucinella Architects

photo : Duccio Malagamba
With a total of 14,000 square metres of supply, Laminam plays a major role in the architectural structure of the new Surgical Center and ER of the IRCCS San Raffaele Hospital building design by MC A – Mario Cucinella Architects.

1 March 2022
Triennale Milano: Ukrainian Pavilion
In light of the invasion of Ukraine, Triennale Milano announces that it will be hosting a panel to address how the Ukrainian Pavilion of the forthcoming 23rd International Exhibition can address the conflict and provoke action.

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Milan Architecture News 2021

21 Dec 2021
New Football Stadium: The Cathedral
Architects: Populous

image Courtesy architecture office

18 Nov 2021
Casa Selene, Milan Apartments

11 Nov 2021
Castione Andevenno City Hall, Sondrio, Lombardy

14 Oct 2021
Versace Home flagship store Milan
Design: Vudafieri-Saverino Partners

photo : Paolo Valentini
Curated by the Milanese architecture studio, the boutique showcases the label’s furniture collections and evokes the great Versace residences. The interior brings together classical architecture and contemporary design, creating an eclectic space that reinterprets the brand’s signature aesthetic.

22 Sep 2021
Emporis Skyscraper Award
4th Place prize – Libeskind Tower Milan, Italy
175 m high 34 storeys
Design: Studio Daniel Libeskind

photos © Alberto Fanelli

Emporis Skyscraper Award 2020

16 July 2021
2026 Milan-Cortina Olympic Village, Porta Romana railway yard
Design: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM)

image © SOM | Pixelflakes
2026 Milan-Cortina Olympic Village
COIMA SGR and its partners Covivio and Prada Holding today revealed that Skidmore, Owings & Merrill will design the Olympic Village for the 2026 Milan-Cortina Olympics as part of the updated Porta Romana railway yard master plan. SOM was selected to design the village following an international competition involving 27 groups comprised of 71 studios from nine different countries.

15 Apr 2021
Valet Public Spaces

10 Apr 2021
Milan biophilic office of the future

18 Mar 2021
Bun Hamburger Chain

16 Feb 2021
The Corner Milan Building

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Milan Architecture News 2020

25 Dec 2020
MEET Milan: Porta Venezia

21 Dec 2020
University of Milan New Science Campus

12 Dec 2020
Playscraper Tennis Tower building

30 Nov 2020
Casa Tersicore Milan building, near Naviglio Grande
Design: Degli Esposti Architetti

photo courtesy of architects
Casa Tersicore was built in Milan, near the Naviglio Grande. On the street, the body of the building is four stories high, which bends around the corner, and then rises seven stories high in a type of turret.

24 Nov 2020
Residenze Carlo Erba Milano
Design: Degli Esposti Architetti, Eisenman Architects, AZstudio

photo courtesy of architects
For a triangular site included in the Piano Pavia-Masera, bounded by buildings built from the beginning of the 20th century to the Seventies, this project seeks to create a distinctly contemporary apartment building. The building solves the issue of the street relationship, without a construction along the boundaries of the block.

28 Oct 2020
MEET Digital Arts Center
Design: CRA-Carlo Ratti Associati and Italo Rota

photograph : Michele Nastasi
CRA-Carlo Ratti Associati and Italo Rota unveil MEET – Milan’s center for digital culture and creative technology. Occupying a newly renovated historic palazzo, the building revolves around a 15-meter-high vertical plaza.

8 Nov 2019
Milano Luiss Hub
Architects: FABBRICANOVE

photograph : Filippo Romano
Ten years after its foundation, Fabbricanove, an architecture studio based in Florence and directed by Enzo Fontana e Giovanni Bartolozzi presents a project that demonstrates and confirms that the urban recovery and regeneration topics are a vocation for them.

2 Oct 2019
Corso Italia 23
Redevelopment Architects: SOM

image : SOM

27 July 2019
Archasm Fashion Pavilion Milan Architecture Competition
What do Tom Ford, Raf Simons, Pierre Balmain, Pierre Cardin, Gianni Versace and Virgil Abloh all have in common? Before starting a career in fashion, each enrolled to study architecture or industrial design:
Milan Architecture Competition

14 Apr 2019
Climatic Agents Milan
Design: OMA / Laboratorio Permanente

image Courtesy architecture office
Scalo Farini Masterplan
Agenti Climatici masterplan by OMA’s Ippolito Pestellini Laparelli and Reinier de Graaf, co-designed with Laboratorio Permanente, wins the Concorso Farini competition for the redevelopment of the scalo Farini and San Cristoforo sites, two disused railway yards North and South of the periphery of this North Italian city.

20 Mar 2019
Gucci Hub Milan HQ Building opens to the public
Architects: Piuarch

photo : Andrea Martiradonna
Gucci Hub Milan Headquarters Building

13 Mar 2019
Sovraparco Hanging Garden Metro Station, Piazzale Loreto
Design: LAD – Laboratorio di Architettura e Design and Hypnos Studio

image Courtesy architecture office
Sovraparco Hanging Garden Metro Station
The ‘Overpark’ neologism identifies a green area built from scratch above a pre-existing urban function.

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Milan Architecture News 2018

24 Aug 2018
Renewal of Isola Pepe Verde’s Playground

11 Jul 2018
Savona 18 Suites Milan Hotel

13 Sep 2018
ARCHMARATHON Awards
61 projects have been selected by the international jury, 33 in the Architecture category and 28 in the interior design section; a good 27 countries represented.
Archmarathon Awards 2018 in Milan

9 May 2018
Vertical Forest wins RIBA Award
Vertical Forest in Milan is one of twenty winners of the Award of Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) 2018 for International Excellence.
Vertical Forest in Milan

2 May 2018
agrAir installation Milan Inhabits Event 2018
Design: Piuarch

photo © Giovanni Hanninen
Drawing on the past to set the lifestyles of the future: that was the mission of agrAir, the installation designed by Piuarch for “Inhabits” event at Milan Design Week 2018. Located in the middle of piazza Castello in Milan, the project was conceived as an opportunity to re-think about the traditional setting of the urban fabric and to recover its values in the city of tomorrow.

25 Apr 2018
Generali Tower Building in Milan
Design: Zaha Hadid Architects

photo © Hufton + Crow
Generali Tower is within the CityLife masterplan that has redeveloped Milan’s abandoned trade fair grounds following the fair’s relocation to Rho Pero in 2005.

17 Apr 2018
House in Motion for Milan Design Week 2018, Italy
Design: Stanton Williams

Baldacchino by Stanton Williams © Saverio Lombardi Vallauri
Entitled Baldacchino in reference to ornamental canopies above altars or thrones, Stanton Williams’ experimental 6m long pavilion interprets the House in Motion theme by giving physical form to the idea of movement through space.

16 Apr 2018
Pavilion, Università degli Studi di Milano, courtyard
Design: Peter Pichler Architecture

photograph : Oskar Dariz
The symmetrical structure is inspired by the extraordinary quality of the Renaissance proportions of the courtyard of Ca’ Granda and plays with the fundamental elements of Renaissance style: Symmetry, proportion and geometry.

9 Apr 2018
agrAir installation Milano
Architects: Piuarch

image from architecture office
As part of the Inhabits program at Milan Design Week 2018, the agrAir project by Piuarch outlines the elements which will hopefully be valued for living in the future – lightness, luminosity, careful use of resources, dissolution of contrasts between interiors and outdoors, between natural and artificial spaces – in a balanced relationship between earth and air.

20 Mar 2018
Kanpai Japanese Restaurant
Architects: Studio Vudafieri-Saverino Partners

photo : Aromi
Kanpai transports in Milan a sensation of contemporary Japan: it could inhabit one of the many lively side streets in one of the Japanese metropolitan cities, with installed screens which transmit pop images typical of today’s technological, urban Japan. Its 150 sqm are structured over three rooms, with diverse colours and aesthetic atmospheres.

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Milanese Building Updates 2017

15 Dec 2017
New Sassetti Tower Milan Building, S32 Fintech District
Architects: L22 Urban & Building

image courtesy of architects
Torre Sassetti Milano Building

8 Dec 2017
CityLife Shopping District
Design: Zaha Hadid Architects

photograph © Hufton+Crow
CityLife Shopping District Milan
Located above Tre Torri station on the M5 line of Milan’s Metro network, CityLife Shopping District integrates a new public park with indoor and outdoor piazzas, food hall, restaurants, cafes, shops and cinema as well as facilities for health and wellbeing.

24 Nov 2017
Boeri: Milan can double the number of trees becoming the European capital of Forestry

Proposal by Italian architect and urban planner, Stefano Boeri:

In the speech, delivered today at the third edition of the conference “Stati Generali del Verde Pubblico” promoted by Comitato per lo sviluppo del verde pubblico – Ministero dell’Ambiente e della Tutela del Territorio e del Mare, Stefano Boeri has resumed the vision of Green Milan launched a few weeks ago by the Mayor Giuseppe Sala, proposing that Milan becomes a leading metropolis in Urban Forestry by 2030.

image courtesy of architects

Thanks to the green regeneration of the railway yards and EXPO area, to the project of rediscovery of Navigli canals, to the green rays and the recovery of orbital forests of Metrobosco; thanks to the greenery in the courtyards, in the collective urban gardens, on the rooftops, on the walls of the buildings, the Milanese agglomeration can double the number of existing trees (around 11 million) by 2030 reaching the percentage of 25% of wood areas, thus becoming a European Capital of Urban Forestry”.

The challenge for Milan to turn greener and full of trees, besides reducing drastically the air pollution, reducing the energy consumption and increasing the biodiversity of the living species, is the best way – after the delusion of EMA not coming to Milan – is to relaunch the role of Milan as a capital of innovation in the field of environmental issues.

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Milan Architecture Tours
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We’ve selected what we feel are the key examples of Milan Buildings, Lombardy, Italy. We aim to include projects that are either of top quality or interesting. We cover completed Milan buildings and architecture competitions across Lombardy. The focus is on contemporary North Italian buildings.

Milan Architecture Design – chronological list

We have 3 pages of Milan AArchitecture selections with links to numerous individual project pages.

Milan Architecture : key projects

Milan Buildings : A-M

Milan Building Designs : N-Z

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Lombardy Architecture News Archive – recent additions to this page, arranged chronologically:

16 Nov 2017
M89 Hotel Milan Building

photo : Andrea Martiradonna
Opposite the building, there are the brick blocks of the former Caproni factory: the M89 Hotel – the new four-star destination at number 89 of via Mecenate – faces the factory halls that one hundred years ago hosted one of the leading aviation companies and which are now home to Gucci.

24 Oct 2017
Microsoft House
Architects: DEGW/Lombardini22

photo : Dario Tettamanzi – Microsoft Italia

11 Apr 2017
Salone del Mobile Milan 2017 – Design Week News
“Nordic Life in Urban Spaces” at the Milan Furniture fair 2017

image courtesy of architects
The Norwegian way of using street furniture to create accessible and attractive public spaces made its way to the European scene.

8 Apr 2017
Scali Milano Masterplan by MAD Architects, during Milan Design Week

image courtesy of architects
MAD Architects presents their research proposal Historical Future: Milan Reborn for the Scali Milano project, community-reactivation masterplan research headed by FS Sistemi Urbani (FS Urban Systems) and Comune di Milano (the Municipality of Milan) with the support of Regione Lombardia (Lombardy Region).