MILAN. The Olympic village of the 2026 Winter Games was unveiled this afternoon in the hall of honor of the Triennale di Milano. It will host 1,300 athletes and will be built in the Scalo di Porta Romana area to give life to a major reconversion of a large area in the east of the city, not far from the Coni headquarters in Milan.
The presentation was staged in front of the mayor Beppe Sala, with the councilor for sport Roberta Guaineri; to the president of the Lombardy Region Attilio Fontana, with the councilor and former Olympian Antonio Rossi, and to the CEO of the Milan-Cortina Foundation Vincenzo Novari. Delivery of the village is scheduled for July 2025. The zero environmental impact project was designed by the Skidmore, Owings & Merrill architectural firm, and will be built by Coima Sgr, Covivio and Prada Holding. The heart of the village will be the ‘Olympic square’, the only part also accessible to external visitors during the Games.
The project has already been studied to ensure an immediate conversion after the Olympics which should be possible within four months of the end of the competitions. The village will remain for the Milanese citizens with a multiple series of functions: residence for university students, greenhouses and vegetable gardens, co-working spaces. The second part, that of the reconversion, will be managed by Coima of the managing director Manfredi Catella, who in Milan has already played a leading role in one of the most innovative urban interventions of recent years, the Porta Nuova area symbolized by Piazza Gae Aulenti.