Real Estate at the center of the energy transition

Donne in cantiere: la crescita delle figure femminili nel Real Estate

What happens when a traditionally male-driven industry like real estate opens up to an increasing presence of women in operational and decision-making positions? Urban Stories talked about this with Maria Greca Sollai, Site Manager at Tecnostrutture, and Solange Paola Giordano, Production Manager at ICM Group, delving into the challenges, innovations and successes of female construction.

Ivory, a bridge to the offices of the future

How can contemporary architecture respond to the new demands from workers, who are rejecting traditional offices in favour of hyper-functional, hi-tech spaces where they can cultivate relationships and receive new inputs, while also meeting targets in terms of urban regeneration, energy saving and environmental stewardship? To provide an example, Gino Garbellini, founding partner at studio Piuarch, told Urban Stories about the project for the Ivory building in Milan.

Fighting climate change with Rain Gardens

How can real estate and infrastructure investments help the energy and environmental transition and people's well-being?

Real Estate, an opportunity for the country

How can real estate and infrastructure investments help the energy and environmental transition and people's well-being?

The era of sustainable cities has already begun

How can city development projects be combined with the most stringent sustainability goals? We discuss this worldwide process with Colin Koop.

Spreading urban regeneration

ENPAM and AdEPP president Alberto OIiveti, presents a “One Health” approach to urban regeneration for the well-being of the environment and people.

Is Milan student-friendly?

Politecnico di Milano's projects provide an accessible and welcoming housing for its students

Connectivity and measurable results for sustainable real estate

To be sustainable and provide integrated services to the community, smart buildings must focus on connectivity and digital services certified by companies such as WiredScore.

A district that creates value

The European House - Ambrosetti Managing Partner & CEO Valerio De Molli, explains the value of the Porta Nuova urban regeneration.

A sustainability and inclusion model

Porta Nuova is the world’s first district to be LEED & WELL for Community certified, as a model of sustainability and a place of inclusion for the city's community.

A new urban planning era

The future of cities: rethinking urban design to overcome vulnerabilities

Urban parks: a balance between inclusion, development and wellbeing

In the new urban regeneration projects that we are increasingly seeing, open spaces are moving away from the traditional patch of green to instead become new hubs for people to gather, much to the delight of the many citizens who request them.

The city of tomorrow? Safe and borderless

Innovation, sustainability and inclusion are the themes that unite the space sector and urban planning.

Investing in the welfare of communities

Stephane Villemain illustrates the role of real estate investors in cities that are increasingly focusing on sustainability and the well-being of citizens.

Milan-Cortina 2026, a carbon neutral Olympic Village

Urban Stories meets Skidmore, Owings & Merrill Design Partner Colin Koop, who talks for the first time about the project to transform the Porta Romana railway yard.

Parco Romana, the new poetics of ecology

Architect Carlo Ratti tells Urban Stories how the ambitious project of redeveloping the historic Porta Romana district came about.

Connected and inclusive: the features of future cities

The guests of the Regenerazione Italia dialogue, organized by COIMA, deepen the issues related to the regeneration of the territory.

The Recovery Fund will improve our cities

European funds are an opportunity to reconsider Italian cities from a smart city perspective, by exploiting three dimensions: sustainability, digitalization and social inclusion.

The green revolution of Pirelli 39

The regeneration of the Pirellino skyscraper, assigned to Diller Scofidio + Renfro and Stefano Boeri Architetti, relaunches the vision of a Milan that wagers on the future by tackling the great challenges of the climate crisis.

The cities of the future? People-friendly, according to Stefano Boeri

In an ever-changing environment, critical events and climate change are forcing us to consider the relationship between people, nature and the spaces we live in, in a brand-new way.

The role of universities in urban innovation

Universities are candidates to play a key role in building the cities of the future, becoming the point of contact between scientific research, public administrators, the real estate sector and citizenship.

Italy’s land is the most valuable resource for its recovery

The moments of crisis are those in which it is more important to know how to seize opportunities, enhancing one's resources in an innovative, responsible and competent way. The prospects for our country in the words of Manfredi Catella at the COIMA Real Estate Forum in Rome.

Pirelli 35 opens up to the city

Pirelli 35, a historic building in the Milanese urban fabric, has been returned to the community modernised in a contemporary perspective, thanks to the ideas of Snøhetta and Park Associati.

Planning Resilient Cities

We talk with Gioia Ghezzi about the evolution of urban environments and the role they have played during the pandemic.

Cities, capital and skills for a sustainable recovery

Italy, the land of a thousand bell towers, can be a sustainable regional development model as alternative to megacity concentration.