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Libeskind's City Life.


Daniel Libeskind Daniel Libeskind, (born May 12, 1946 in Łódź, Poland) is a Polish-born Jewish American architect, who has designed many prominent and celebrated buildings, including the Jewish Museum in Berlin, Germany, the Denver Art Museum in the United States, the Imperial War Museum  has been chosen as the master planner of CityLife--A project for Milan, a group selected this month to redevelop and remodel re·mod·el  
tr.v. re·mod·eled also re·mod·elled, re·mod·el·ing also re·mod·el·ling, re·mod·els also re·mod·els
To make over in structure or style; reconstruct.
 tile historic Fiera di Milano fairgrounds n. pl. 1. same as fairground.  in Milan.

In winning the contract, "CityLife," (whose designer team is composed by Zaha Hadid Zaha Hadid (Arabic: زها حديد) CBE (born October 31, 1950, Baghdad, Iraq) is a notable Iraqi-British deconstructivist architect. Biography
Born october 31 1950 in Baghdad, Iraq.
, Arata Isozaki, Daniel Libeskind and Pier Paolo Maggiora) beat out seven other groups of internationally renowned architects.

The competition, sponsored by Sistema di Fiera, has been called the most significant urban project and the largest investment in present-day Milan.

It is intended to put the city on the same level as Europe's largest and innovative metropolises such as London. Paris. Barcelona. Madrid and Berlin
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Publication:Real Estate Weekly
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Date:Oct 6, 2004
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