Daniel-Libeskind

Bjarke Ingels’ CityWave closes the only multi-architect tower district Milan has built in half a century, 22 years after Arata Isozaki, Zaha Hadid and Daniel Libeskind won the 2004 masterplan for the 36.6-hectare former Fiera grounds. The question — every tower in the Milan CityLife towers district, by architect and completion year, 2015 to 2026 — has a clean answer because the consortium that won the competition imposed a clean rule: one signature tower per Pritzker-class author, then one residential complex per author, then a final phase by a single invited practice. Isozaki’s Allianz Tower delivered in 2015, Hadid’s Generali Tower in 2017, Libeskind’s PwC Tower in 2020, and BIG’s CityWave is nearly complete as of May 2026. That is the district. Everything else — the park, the metro stop, the residential blocks, the LEED Gold pre-certification on the office towers — is scaffolding around four projects by four authors. ...