Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) will create a “self-sustaining neighborhood” for the 2026 Olympic Village for the winter games in Milan, complete with solar panels, roof gardens, and mass timber structures.
The firm beat 27 other firms to design this component of the Milan Olympics, as part of a master plan first unveiled this March, when a team led by Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R) was selected for its Parco Romana proposal to turn Milan’s Porta Romana railway yard into a mixed-use district for the Games and for use well into the future. SOM’s athlete housing, for example, will be turned into much-needed student and affordable housing after the event.
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