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Fieramilano, located in Rho near Milan, is the largest exhibition center in Europe, covering 753,000 m² and operated by Fiera Milano SpA since its opening in 1923. The facility hosts around seventy shows and 30,000 exhibitors annually, while the older fairground site is being redeveloped into a new urban district with contributions from notable architects like Daniel Libeskind and Zaha Hadid. The new exhibition complex designed by Massimiliano Fuksas will provide an additional 530,000 m² of space, enhancing Milan's status as a cosmopolitan city.

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Fieramilano, located in Rho near Milan, is the largest exhibition center in Europe, covering 753,000 m² and operated by Fiera Milano SpA since its opening in 1923. The facility hosts around seventy shows and 30,000 exhibitors annually, while the older fairground site is being redeveloped into a new urban district with contributions from notable architects like Daniel Libeskind and Zaha Hadid. The new exhibition complex designed by Massimiliano Fuksas will provide an additional 530,000 m² of space, enhancing Milan's status as a cosmopolitan city.

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 The first fair ground in Milan was opened in 1906, as the area of a World's fair, and in time
for the opening of the Simplon Tunnel(largest tunnel - 19,803 m (64,970 ft) long; the
second is 19,824 m (65,039 ft) long, making it the longest railway tunnel in the world for
most of the twentieth century, from 1906 until 1982, until the Daishimizu Tunnel opened
76 years later).
 The fairground at that time extended over the current area and the nearby Sempione Park.

Fieramilano is a fairground and exhibition facility in Rho, Italy near Milan.

Covering 753,000 m² of total surface, it is the largest exhibition center in Europe.

The facility includes Area Expo - Experience, an exhibition and performance venue.

Fiera Milano SpA is a trade fair and exhibition organiser started in 1 oct 2000.

Fiera Milano mainly operates in the fields of management and organisation of exhibitions, trade fairs
and conferences. It hosts about seventy shows (of which about one third directly organized) and
30,000 exhibitors every year.

Location : Milan, Italy

Operator : Fiera Milano SpA

Opened : 1923

Expanded : 1997

Construction cost : €755 million

Architect : Massimiliano Fuksas

Total area : 450000sq.m

Milan’s new exhibition centre is all set to change the somewhat nondescript city centre.
Despite its status as one of Italy’s most cosmopolitan and prosperous cities, Milan has
always looked slightly dowdy compared with Rome, Florence and even Turin.
Fittingly, given the profile of Milan’s fashion and furniture fairs, its exhibition centre is at the heart of
the redevelopment. Italian architect Massimiliano Fuksas has devised a plan for a brand new
530,000m² (131 acres ) complex that morphs into new shapes as you walk its pathways.

Italian architect Massimiliano Fuksas

Meanwhile, the old site at the heart of the city, home of the fair since 1923, is being
redeveloped as a new urban district, incorporating public spaces, housing, office towers,
retail spaces and a museum. This is all built around a central park, which provides a much-
needed lung for the city.

Winners of the competition to design this area include Daniel Libeskind, who contributes an
office tower, housing development and museum. Libeskind is also responsible for the park
and a public square, Piazza Domodossola.
Also involved are Zaha Hadid, Arata Isozaki and another Italian, Pier Paolo Maggiora. Fiera
Milano will continue to host smaller exhibitions, though larger events will be held at Fuksas’
new complex. Together, the two sites will offer 710,000m² of floor space.

In another development, Norman Foster has drawn up a masterplan for Santa Giulia, just
south of Milan’s cathedral, while a set of connected projects near the main train station
include a new headquarters for Lombardy’s regional government.

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