Cascina Merlata | |
|---|---|
Quartier of Milan | |
| Country |  Italy |
| Region | Lombardy |
| Metropolitan City | Milan |
| Comune | Milan |
| Zone | 8 |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
Cascina Merlata is a district ("quartiere") of Milan, Italy, part of the Zone 8 administrative division of the city. It is adjacent to the Expo 2015 exhibition site and borders the districts of Roserio, Gallaratese and Musocco, as well as the municipality of Pero.
Cascina Merlata covers an area of approximately 900,000 m² on which the construction of a large urban park of 300,000 m², a school complex of 12,000 m², a shopping center of 60,000 m², in addition to housing divided into several lots (52500 m² of social housing; 127000 m² under agreement; 143500 m² free housing).
The Expo Village, designed by EuroMilano SpA as part of the redevelopment plan of the Cascina Merlata area, consists of 7 residential towers designed by architects Cino Zucchi, C + S Associati, MCA di Mario Cucinella Architects, Teknoarch, B22 and Pura. [1] The works, which began in June 2013, ended in March 2015. During Expo 2015, they were intended to welcome the representatives of the international delegations and the staff of the countries participating in the Universal Exposition. At the end of the Universal Exposition, from July 2016, a further 4 buildings with 293 accommodations were built alongside the first 7 towers intended for the Expo Village. [2] Once completed, it became the largest social housing settlement in Italy with a total of 690 homes and the first entirely zero-emission neighborhood. [3]
Expo 2015 was a World Expo hosted by Milan, Italy. It opened on May 1 at 10:00 CEST and closed on October 31. Milan hosted an exposition for the second time; the first was the 1906 Milan International.
Brugherio is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Monza and Brianza in the Italian region Lombardy, located about 10 kilometres northeast of Milan. It was established December 9, 1866 unifying the suppressed municipalities of Baraggia, San Damiano and Moncucco, together with the villages of Bindellera, Cesena, Gelosa, San Paolo, Torazza, Occhiate and Increa.
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Portello is a district ("quartiere") of Milan, Italy, part of the Zone 8 administrative division of the city, located north-west of the centre. It is best known as a car-manufacturing area, as it used to house facilities of Alfa Romeo, Darracq, Citroën, and Fiat. The district also includes one of the major shopping malls in north-western Milan. It is crossed by the Circonvallazione ring road. Portello is adjacent to the new CityLife district.
Stefano Boeri is an Italian architect and urban planner, born in Milan in 1956, founding partner of Stefano Boeri Architetti. He earned a master's degree in Architecture from Polytechnic University of Milan and a PhD in architecture in 1989 from Iuav University of Venice. Among the most known projects are the Vertical Forest in Milan, the Villa Méditerranée in Marseille, and the House of the Sea of La Maddalena.
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Ghisolfa is a district ("quartiere") of Milan, Italy, part of the Zone 8 administrative division of the city, located north-west of the city centre. It is named after the "Ghisolfa Bridge" overpass, part of the external Circonvallazione ring road enclosing the centre of Milan. In turn, the bridge was named after two cascine, "Cascina Ghisolfa" and "Cascina Ghisolfetta", that existed in the area before the urbanization of the mid 20th century. The bridge was completed in 1941, prolonged in the 1960s, and enlarged in the 1990s.
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Gallaratese is a district ("quartiere") of Milan, Italy, part of the Zone 8 administrative division of the city. It is located about 7 km north-west of the city centre. It borders on the comune of Pero to the north and on the districts of Trenno to the west and Lampugnano to the south; to the east, its ideal border is the eponymous street, which in turn is named after Gallarate, the town it leads to.
Fieramilano is a fairground and exhibition facility in Rho, Italy near Milan. It is operated by Fiera Milano SpA and is part of the larger Fiera di Milano - consisting of two sites: Fieramilano and Fieramilanocity. Covering 753,000 m² of total surface, it is the largest exhibition center in Europe. The facility includes Area Expo - Experience, an exhibition and performance venue.
In 2000 Paolo Brescia and Tommaso Principi established the collective OBR to investigate new ways of contemporary living, creating a design network among Milan, London and New York.
Cascina Torchiera is a historic cascina a corte (farmhouse) of Milan, Italy, dating back to the first half of the 14th century. It is located in zone 8 of Milan, adjacent to the Maggiore cemetery, in the Musocco/Garegnano district, and is one of the oldest surviving cascine within the city boundaries. The cascina is formally the property of the Comune di Milano city administration and has been a squatted self-managed social centre since the 1992. It is known as Cascina Autogestita Torchiera SenzAcqua.
The Zone 8 of Milan is one of the 9 administrative zones of Milan, Italy. It corresponds to the north-western sector of the city.
The Municipality 9 of Milan is one of the 9 administrative zones of Milan, Italy. It corresponds to the northern area of the city.
This article contains the details of the pavilions in Expo 2015. The 2015 World Expo Milan covers more than 2.9 square kilometers and contains more than 70 exposition pavilions. More than 145 countries and 50 international organizations registered to participate in the 2015 Milan Expo.
Vincenzo Eusebi is an Italian engineer, architect and designer. Eusebi studied engineering and architecture at the Marche Polytechnic University in Ancona.
Giuseppe "Beppe" Sala is an Italian manager and politician. He was CEO of the 2015 Universal Exposition in Milan from June 2010 to December 2015. Afterwards, he was chosen as the centre-left coalition candidate for Mayor of Milan in the 2016 municipal election, which he won, becoming mayor on 21 June 2016.
An Expo Village is an accommodation center built for the Universal Exposition organized by BIE in the host city. Expo Villages are built to house all participating delegates, as well as officials. Expo Villages are similar to Olympic Villages.
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