The New European Library in Milan will be designed by a Milanese team

The New European Library of Information and Culture (Nuova Biblioteca Europea di Informazione e Cultura, BEIC) in Milan will be built on the basis of the project developed by the Italian group formed by the designers of Onsitestudio (Angelo Raffaele Lunati - group leader, Giancarlo Floridi), Baukuh (Pier Paolo Tamburelli, Andrea Zanderigo, Giacomo Summa), Francesca Benedetto (Yellow Office), Luca Gallizioli (Onsitestudio), Manuela Fantini (SCE Projects), Marcello Cerea (Starching), Davide Masserini (Ab-normal), Antonio Danesi (Stain), consultants Silvestre Mistretta, Giuseppe Zaffino (Greenwich), Fabrizio Pignoloni (Dot-dot-dot) and collaborator Florencia Collo (Atmos Lab).

The motivation of the jury – chaired by architect Stefano Boeri and composed of architect Jocelyn Helen Froimovich Hes, Rosa Maiello, engineer Jhionny Pellicciotta, and architect Cino Zucchi – examined 44 proposals, presented by firms active all over the world, and – pending the disclosure of more precise technical details – clarified some aspects of the work, which will occupy a different intervention lot from the one that was the subject of the previous competition, in 2001, and whose winning project was not carried out due to lack of ministerial funding needed.

“The project responds to the urban context, the complexity of the functional program, and the values ​​of formal significance and environmental sustainability required by the theme with a simple and convincing solution from all points of view,” we read in the comment, which shows that “the constraints of the place are transformed into resources, with a spatial system able of communicating with the extended staircase of the green void that from the Palazzina Liberty reaches the railway belt and to create a new collective environment, in a strong relationship with the stop of the passer-by on Viale Molise and with the urban regeneration taking place in the former slaughterhouse”.