In 1991 AIM, in agreement with the
the municipality of Milan, promoted a Ideas Contest, funded by its partners, for the transformation ofGaribaldi Area - Republic,
once occupied by the Varesine station.
In fact, at the end of the 50s, with the idea of creating a new management center, the area was freed by moving the railway terminal into the Porta Garibaldi station, leaving a gap never filled.
In the competition they participated63 projects, collected in a volume AIM, expression of as many different ways of understanding the city, among which is selected proposal by Pierluigi Nicolin.
Her idea of a vertical cityand a large green space will subsequently be adopted by the Municipality of Milan as development guideline
for what has today become the area of New door.