If the Porta Nuova-Garibaldi area in Milan, with its skyscrapers that have come to symbolize the city’s recent changes, is progressively growing into the financial and hi-tech district of the metropolis, the futuristic architecture designs of CityLife have attracted investments from the major insurance groups, with Allianz preparing to move 3,000 employees into the Isozaki Tower by year’s end, and Generali waiting for the completion of the Tower designed by Zaha Hadid to relocate another 3,000 employees, probably in 2018.

As yet unknown, on the other hand, is the identity of future occupants of the third tower, the one designed by Daniel Libeskind, whose construction work began at the end of 2016. Vice versa, the Porta Nuova district has seen its ‘population’ settled for several years and the redevelopment project, launched over ten years ago with the new headquarters of Regione Lombardia, the Lombard regional administration, continues to expand towards the neighboring districts.