Porta Nuova is Milan's most dramatic act of urban reinvention — a district that transformed a tangle of disused railway yards and neglected lots into one of Europe's most talked-about contemporary neighbourhoods over roughly a decade. The skyline here is unmistakably 21st century: Cesar Pelli's twin UniCredit Tower needles dominate the horizon, while Stefano Boeri's Bosco Verticale — the forested residential towers draped in nearly 900 trees and 20,000 plants — has become one of the most photographed buildings in Italy. It's architecture as manifesto, and it largely delivers.
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