The annual Tall Buildings conference, now in its 14th edition, was held on 26 June in the Hall of Honour of the Milan Triennale, under the patronage of the Iuav University of Venice and the Milan Polytechnic. The event lasted a whole day, from 10.00 am to 6.00 pm. As in past editions, the organisation and coordination was entrusted to Professors Aldo Norsa (Guamari) and Dario Trabucco (Iuav). Once again this year, Elevatori Magazine is the conference’s media partner.

During the event, many of the protagonists of Italian and international architecture took to the stage and talked about urban regeneration, a very topical theme in a time of change such as the one in which we live. They took stock of the state of the art in Italy (as witnessed by the designers of the most recent buildings) with those in other countries, and the multiple disciplines of design, construction and management, as well as those that contribute to the innovation of processes and products, were able to dialogue on this occasion.

The organising company Guamari made it public that the number of registrations for this year’s event exceeded 430, while there were 45 speakers (Italian and foreign). There were 59 sponsoring companies (which make the organisation of the event possible).

The event programme

OPENING (10:00 – 10:10)

10:00 Stefano Boeri (Triennale Milano)
10:05 Emilio Faroldi (Politecnico di Milano)

PROMOTING URBAN REGENERATION (10:10 – 13:00)

10:10 Jacopo Palermo (TEHA Group – Ambrosetti) – Il valore della rigenerazione urbana
10:30 Turin – Round Table with Paolo Mazzoleni (Città di Torino), Paolo Benedetto (IPI),
Monika Loeve (CRA Carlo Ratti Associati), Giovanni de Niederhäusern (Pininfarina), Emanuela Recchi (Recchiengineering)
11:00 Milan – Round Table with Guido Alberto Inzaghi (Studio Inzaghi), Floriana Marotta
(MAB Architettura), Angelo Micheli (AMDL Circle) / Davide Capritta (Alpina) /
Claudio Guido (In.PRO)
11:30 Giulia Carravieri (ATI Project) – A new tower for Pisa
11:50 Rome – Round Table with Sonia Calzoni (Calzoni Architetti), Nicolò Rebecchini
(Stile Costruzioni), Gabriele Scicolone (Artelia Italia)
12:10 Naples – Round Table with Filippo Innocenti (ZHA), Ferruccio Izzo / Giovanni Multari (Università Federico II), Giuseppe Lombardi (Bono)

12:40 Patricia Viel (ACPV Architects) – Planning and Designing for “Livability”

BUFFET LUNCH (13:00 – 14:00)

PROJECTS AND TECHNOLOGIES (14:00 – 18:00)

14:00 Astrid Piber (UNStudio) – FOUR Frankfurt a Francoforte
14:20 Diederik Dam (Dam & Partners) – De Zalmhaven a Rotterdam
14:40 Raphael de la Fontaine (DLF) – « Vertical City » a Tel Aviv
15:00 Emanuela Baglietto (RPBW) – One Sydney Harbour a Sydney
15:20 Round Table on prevention and safety with Giuseppe Amaro (GAe Engineering),
Diego Deponte (Systematica), Federico Rainato (Saint-Gobain), Francesco Rucco (Bouygues E & S Italia), Calogero Turturici (Milan Fire Department)
16:00 Round Table on sustainability and LCA with Mauro Eugenio Giuliani (Redesco),
Marco Felici (Lagrange), Mattia Mariani (Deerns Italia), Erica Masala (Hydro Building Systems Italy/WICONA), Dante Parisi (Heidelberg Materials)
16:40 Edoardo Benvenuti (ArcelorMittal) – Research Project – Global Warming Potential
of Tall Buildings
17:00 The challenging construction of CityWave and Torre A2A in Milan – Stefano Crespi (Colombo Costruzioni) / Marco Beccati (CityLife), Andrea Matricardi (Mpartner),
Tommaso Salvo (CMB)
17:20 Round Table on research and development with Dario Trabucco (Iuav), Giampiero Brioni (B&B Progetti), Franco Daniele (Tecnostrutture), Massimo Facchini (Hub Engineering)

COCKTAIL E NETWORKING (18:00)