The railway connecting Milano with Malpensa airport (Terminal 1) will be extended 3.6 km northward, enabling to reach Malpensa terminal T2 from Milano downtown in just 35’ avoiding present discomforts and time losses due to the connection by bus shuttle.
It has a capacity up to 8 train paths/h (over 250 trains/day). The new 400m long station enables also rail services operated by HS trains. The aim is to reach in the mid-term a 25% rail modal share to /from Malpensa.
The works represent the first phase of the link from Malpensa Airport to the North, that will be plugged onto…
Already Appiani Graziano, creator of the historical company of tiles, driven by political and entrepreneurial passions, builts here in 1910, “his social village “: the Eden village.
An industrial complex with residences for their employees and places for their well-being, a theater, a cafe and other public spaces, because “… it was not the suburbs, but a new idea of the city” (Graziano Appiani). In the nineties, the area was acquired by the Foundation Cassamarca.
Today, in the area once occupied by the Opificio, there is a new area dedicated to hosting the Cittadella of the institutions of Treviso, which is…
In 2008, the Municipality of Milan put out to tender eight areas of its property, granted in surface rights, to facilitate social housing construction.
Social, architectural and environmental quality and smart design were the privileged elements of the projects evaluation.
The cost of the designated areas for housing for rent is equal to 1 Euro.
The Cooperativa Solidarnosc of CCL (lead organization) and Cooperativa Edificatrice Ferruccio Degradi received the assignment of Via F.lli Zoia area.
The project was concretized in the construction of 3 buildings: 2 for the property and a third for covenant and social rental agreements; over 95 accommodations, 44 are…
The strategies, defined by structural and pragmatic aspects, that the municipal administration of Sarno wants to employ with the “Piano Urbanistico Comunale” (Urbanistic Municipal Plan), mainly pursue a sustenaible development of the territory and the social community, foreseeing a serie of measures to achieve goals at the same time, like the protection and contextual development of the historical and identity heritage, the mitigation and prevention of natural and anthropic risk factors, the recover and reorganisation of the settlement structure, the definition of a mobility system to be sustainable and intermodal.
The Plan, as landscape-environmental strategic project, offers, for the areas…
Occupied by 88 persons and nicknamed ‘The Casbah’ by the locals, a public neighborhood-building with 55 disrupted units, beacon of those social building ideas of the 70’s, escaped demolition thanks to a €4.5 million urban regeneration project that has radically transformed the building, reducing it to 42 apartments on the ground floor for different activities, but keeping intact its architectural shape. The project entailed the relocation of residents, the implementation of a PRUACS and of a monitored working scheduled that will be completed in early 2015, just 4 years after the decision to rebuild the neighborhood.
These are…