TOP AWARD FOR MILAN’S ‘TWISTED TOWER’

Milan’s “Twisted Tower”,
headquarters of the Generali Insurance giant in the CityLife quarter, has won
first place for worldwide excellence in the high-rise category of this year’s
prestigious awards by the American Concrete
Institute.

Rising 186 m in a breathtaking
corkscrew of steel and glass, the 44-storey building was designed by the late
Iraqi-born Dame Zaha Hadid, the first woman to receive the Pritzker
Architecture Prize in 2004 and winner of the UK’s most important architectural
award, the Stirling Prize, in 2010 and 2011.

The ‘Twisted Tower’ was built in
2017 by the Milan firm Redesco. It is based on a 2.5 m-thick concrete slab,
which also supports three underground basement floors. The tower is one of the
first projects of torsion tower to be built entirely in concrete. The torsion
is more accentuated at the base and reduces along the height of the tower until
it becomes vertical at the very top.

A queue over a kilometre long
lined up to visit the tower during the FAI Autumn Days event soon after it was built.

“This recognition celebrates Italian engineering and the ability to design buildings that are unmatched from an architectural and technological point of view,” Marco Beccati, technical director of CityLife, told media. “The Tower was a real challenge, and we faced it with our consolidated know-how that led to the construction of a building that represents global best practice for all future projects of this type.”https://www.wantedinmilan.com/news/top-award-for-milans-twisted-tower.html