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.

Milan from 15 to 40 minutes: hub of a new urban model

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?

SCALOdARTS: urban art and community

Art and urban regeneration together for the SCALOdARTS project in Porta Romana, where 20 artists represented the values of winter sports for Milan-Cortina 2026

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

New smart living solutions

Porta Nuova supports Habismart’s start-ups to implement community-friendly and smart building and district management services.

An affordable house in Milan, in a cooperative

Price, quality and relationship between private and public space: Milan focuses on these three aspects and on the cooperative approach for more affordable houses.

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.

Where is smart mobility going?

The urban mobility is increasingly smart and a valid example is represented by the city of Milan. The point of view of three companies operating in the transport sector.

A new urban planning era

The future of cities: rethinking urban design to overcome vulnerabilities

Milan, the alternative to megacities

Sustainable and inclusive: Manfredi Catella shows how Milan is becoming an urban model for other European cities to emulate

Social bridges for inclusive cities

Urban regeneration and social inclusion in the COIMA and Fondazione Arché project.

The construction sector will be the driving force behind Italy’s recovery

Following a year of impressive growth, the construction sector is now being faced with the new challenges of raised prices and increasing energy costs, making sustainability the lever for the recovery of the production system in Lombardy.

The gentle revolution of the impact economy

Generating a social and environmental impact: Giovanna Melandri offers insights into one of the objectives of Impact Investing that is also involving Real Estate.

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.

Real Estate after COP26

After COP26, Luciano Gabriel explains why the real estate sector will play a crucial role in the struggle against climate change and in achieving sustainability goals.

COIMA launches its first podcast - Nuove Radici (New Roots)

Places of sociality, where architecture and nature meet and where everything is easily accessible, Italian urban centers represent a model for the future of cities.

Real Estate looks to the future

The events organised in view of COP26 such as Italy Goes Green have reaffirmed the centrality of real estate for Italian urban regeneration.

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.

BAM’s message of rebirth on the notes of Beethoven

Just a few days after the Back to the City Concert, BAM - Biblioteca degli Alberi Milano has returned with a new life and a rich programme of events.

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.