Milan’s Vertical Forest is awarded the prize for the most beautiful skyscraper worldwide. Air conditioning is signed by Sabiana.
The award, which was established in 2003 thanks to the joint effort of Frankfurt’s Architecture Museum (DAM), the city of Frankfurt and DekaBank, looks at all buildings that are at least 100 metres high. The parameters for the award include sustainability, design, quality of spaces and integration within the urban setting. The award is given every two years, and for this year’s editions, over 800 skyscrapers were examined on all continents.
The international and multidisciplinary jury defined the Vertical Forest as an “expression of man’s need for contact with nature; a radical and courageous idea for tomorrow's cities and certainly provides a model for the development of high population density areas in other European countries.”
With construction completed in June 2013, the Vertical Forest, designed by Italy’s Stefano Boeri and built by Hines Italia at Porta Nuova in Milan, is a complex consisting of two residential towers, 80 and 112 metres high, with 113 flats in a variety of shapes and sizes, each having access to its own balcony or terrace, able to hold 800 trees between 3 and 9 metres high, 11,000 perennials and creepers, 5,000 bushes: equal to 20,000 m2 of forest and undergrowth.
As this project is cutting-edge and features strong criteria of sustainability and environmental impact, as well as design and quality, the designers opted for the air conditioning systems of the entire complex to be supplied by Sabiana, with about a thousand fan coils and flues.
Italy’s crowning glories choose Sabiana.
The award, which was
established in 2003 thanks to the joint effort of Frankfurt’s Architecture
Museum (DAM), the city of Frankfurt and DekaBank, looks at all buildings that
are at least 100 metres high. The parameters for the award include
sustainability, design, quality of spaces and integration within the urban
setting. The award is given every two years, and for this year’s editions, over
800 skyscrapers were examined on all continents.
The international and multidisciplinary jury defined the Vertical Forest as an
“expression of man’s need for contact with nature; a radical and courageous
idea for tomorrow's cities and certainly provides a model for the development
of high population density areas in other European countries.”
With construction completed in June 2013, the Vertical Forest, designed by
Italy’s Stefano Boeri and built by Hines Italia at Porta Nuova in Milan, is a
complex consisting of two residential towers, 80 and 112 metres high, with 113
flats in a variety of shapes and sizes, each having access to its own balcony
or terrace, able to hold 800 trees between 3 and 9 metres high, 11,000
perennials and creepers, 5,000 bushes: equal to 20,000 m2 of forest
and undergrowth.
As this project is cutting-edge and
features strong criteria of sustainability and environmental impact, as well as
design and quality, the designers opted for the air conditioning systems of the
entire complex to be supplied by Sabiana, with about a thousand fan coils and
flues.
Italy’s crowning glories choose Sabiana.
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Sabiana still the talk of the media
Reliability, technology and design are the requirements that led Sabiana to developing the climate lungs of the Biodiversity Garden, which since its inauguration has aroused great interest in the media, ans continues being covered.
See the press review for the latest articles.
Reliability, technology and
design are the requirements that led Sabiana to developing the climate lungs of
the Biodiversity Garden, which since its inauguration has aroused great
interest in the media, ans continues being covered.
See the press review for
the latest articles.
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The Biodiversity Garden, the feather in Sabiana’s cap, is in the news.
Two months after its inauguration and opening to the public, the Biodiversity Garden, new section of Padua’s Botanical Gardens, still attracts the media’s attention and will be one of the peak achievements showcased at the Italy Pavilion of Expo 2015.
The prestige and quality of Sabiana products have been selected for air conditioning of the entire hothouse building with Helios and Comfort air heaters, constructed according to criteria of sturdiness and safety and with a keen eye for design as always.
Two months after its
inauguration and opening to the public, the Biodiversity Garden, new section of
Padua’s Botanical Gardens, still attracts the media’s attention and will be one
of the peak achievements showcased at the Italy Pavilion of Expo 2015.
The prestige and quality of Sabiana products have been selected for air
conditioning of the entire hothouse building with Helios and Comfort air
heaters, constructed according to criteria of sturdiness and safety and with a
keen eye for design as always.
Newsletter
Unlock Italy Decree, VAT cut to 4% for renovations.
The Unlock Italy Decree landed yesterday at the House for general discussion and examination is in full swing today.
The highlights of measures modified at the Parliament’s Environment Commission include a VAT cut from 10% to 4% for building renovation works.
Renovation works – which already profit from the "ecobonus" pending confirmation for 2015 too, with the Stability Law (50% tax credits for building renovation and 65% for energy efficiency improvement) – will be subject to the 4% VAT rate. To offset the lower collections, a reverse VAT increase is planned (from 4% to 10%) on purchases of new buildings directly from the construction company.
In addition to the VAT rate decrease on renovations, IRPEF (personal income tax) also helps the estate market: the 20% IRPEF deduction on the expense for purchasing a home is no longer subject to lease of the property at regulated rent for 8 years.
The Unlock Italy Decree landed
yesterday at the House for general discussion and examination is in full swing
today.
The highlights of measures modified at the Parliament’s Environment Commission
include a VAT cut from 10% to 4% for building renovation works.
Renovation works – which already profit from the "ecobonus" pending
confirmation for 2015 too, with the Stability Law (50% tax credits for building
renovation and 65% for energy efficiency improvement) – will be subject to the
4% VAT rate. To offset the lower collections, a reverse VAT increase is planned
(from 4% to 10%) on purchases of new buildings directly from the construction
company.
In addition to the VAT rate decrease on renovations, IRPEF (personal income
tax) also helps the estate market: the 20% IRPEF deduction on the expense for
purchasing a home is no longer subject to lease of the property at regulated
rent for 8 years.