80 million project in Milan near the Central Station. Ten floors with an eco-friendly façade on a green area of 800 square meters
by Paola Dezza
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At the moment a long fence hides the construction site. But here by 2021 a new office building will be built, designed and designed to have a very low impact on the city and become yet another reference point in the executive world. The Manuli Group has chosen to start work, with an investment of around 80 million euros, to create modern and eco-sustainable spaces just a stone’s throw from the Central Station, along the Via Vittor Pisani ridge.
Manuli presents Hidden woods
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The name chosen is explanatory. “Hidden woods, the hidden woods” will be a building of 18 thousand square meters with a garden of over 800 square meters of tall trees, whose contribution to cleaning the air will be assisted by a ceramic façade with equal CO2 absorption properties to another 252 trees. The ceramic elements are treated with a special cover based on titanium dioxide capable of reducing pollutants by 50 percent. “Ours is an industrial attitude – Antonello Manuli, the group leader, explains exclusively at Sole24 Ore. . We always aim to achieve quality projects. I arrived at the real estate by chance, but I am passionate about it ».
The group The group redeveloped Palazzo Ricordi in 2016. Milanese building, located in Via Berchet at number 2, Palazzo Ricordi was built in 1880 and in 1920 became the headquarters of the Ricordi group. Today it is a complex for mixed use, offices and retail, and houses the Ferrari megastore on three levels and the offices of Furla. A strategic building that the holding company Manuli has chosen to maintain in the group’s structural and strategic heritage, such as the Mondadori via Marghera megastore, also in Milan.
The project Returning to the project on the construction site, which as said will be ready in October 2021, three existing buildings dating back to the 60s were demolished for the construction. It is a parallelepid topped by a terrace with green areas and views of the Milanese skyline, which will house a glass cube with high-level office space. The interior spaces of the ten floors, which within six months – so the company expects – could find a tenant, have been designed to reach an efficiency of 6.7 square meters per person against the 15 square meters of the old buildings. At level -1 there will be an auditorium overlooking the interior forest, to enjoy the changing of the seasons.