Since August 2012, Unical has been supplying the concrete for the Isozaki Tower, one of the high-rise buildings in the CityLife project aimed at redeveloping the former exhibition district in Milan. Standing at 202 meters high, the 50-storey tower designed by Japanese architect Arata Isozaki will be the tallest building in Italy and will accommodate up to 3,800 people. The outwardly curving glass facade and slender silhouette conceals the impressive concrete structure consisting of two mirrored “cores” at the sides, the floors and the imposing columns in the central part of the building. Supplied by the batching plants in Novate Milanese, Nosedo and Bareggio, our subsidiary Unical delivered approximately 90,000 m3 of concrete for both the tower and the platform. The final 430 m3 of special concrete was delivered in two pourings for the beam crowning the skyscraper in July 2014. Unical was also awarded the contract to supply 40,000 m3 of concrete for the associated underground park.
Ultimately housing the offices of the Allianz Italia group, the building will be ready in spring just in time for the opening of Expo 2015.