David Chipperfield’s City of Culture nears completion in Milan

The central block is a curving opaque-glass hall, creating a glowing beacon at the heart of the site. David Chipperfield won a competition in 2000 to design the Città delle Culture (City of Culture) complex in the former Ansaldo factory, located south-west of the city in the creative district surrounding Via Tortona. Dezeen Book of Interviews: David Chipperfield features in our new book, which is on sale now
British architect David Chipperfield has an office in Milan, in addition to those in London, Berlin and Shanghai. The complex comprises an assemblage of two, three and four-storey volumes, framing a network of courtyards and passages designed to help integrate the new structures with the surrounding industrial architecture. Photography is by Oskar Da Riz. Around this, the architects designed a series of boxy buildings, featuring a standing-seam cladding of zinc-titanium. News: these new images show the interiors and exteriors of David Chipperfield’s soon-to-complete museum and gallery complex in a converted steel factory in Milan (+ slideshow).