The HuffPost website publishes an article by Mauro Suttora entitled “Italian Excellence. Report from a Futuristic Health City”, which presents the project for the New Policlinico Hospital in Milan, designed by Boeri Studio (S. Boeri, G. Barreca, G. La Varra).
Located in the historic center of Milan, the Policlinico is one of the city’s main hospitals: a healthcare complex enclosed within a perimeter, where different services are housed in separate buildings connected mostly by outdoor pathways. While preserving part of the original pavilion-based structure, the New Policlinico Hospital project introduces, in the central area, a large “container,” the Central Building, which integrates medical/surgical and maternal/child departments. This structure consists of a pair of linear buildings intended for inpatient wards and outpatient clinics, measuring 121 × 26 meters in plan and rising to the maximum permitted height of 28 meters. In addition, there is a central block, approximately 18.5 meters high and with a maximum depth of 68 meters, which houses the operating theaters and delivery/labor rooms.
On its roof, a lush rooftop garden of over 7,000 square meters is planned. Its use is initially reserved for patients and healthcare staff, but in the future it may be opened to the public for special events of a recreational and therapeutic nature. As one of the major urban reforestation initiatives planned in Milan, it is enhanced by the added value linked to the chromotherapeutic potential of its landscape, with plant species that change color across the seasons. It also includes a rehabilitation garden, crossed by pathways with varying levels of difficulty related to different types of paving.
To read the full article: https://www.huffingtonpost.it/politica/2026/03/19/news/nuovo_policlinico_milano-21455319/#PREMIUM