Designed by architects Sonia Calzoni and Pierluigi Nicolin, the Aurora complex is a development promoted by Värde and Borio Mangiarotti of about 140 apartments that covers an area of ​​over 11,000 m2 near the former Fiera di Milano quadrilateral and the CityLife District.
The large block, traced for the first time by the Beruto plan in 1889, is both a challenge and an opportunity: in fact, the project aims to complete the nineteenth-century morphology through distinctive elements, consistent not only with the historical layout, but also with the new metropolitan reality. The complex is made up of three buildings, two in line with 6 floors and a 19-storey tower, accompanied by a large green area of ​​about 8,000 m2.
The buildings are arranged on the perimeter of the lot, flanking the road, so as to maximize the central space intended for an internal park.
Throughout the period between the two wars, the north-west sector of the city of Milan - where the new housing complex on Via Silva stands - was affected by a weak process of urbanization that included large tracts of countryside, including the notable green areas of the sports facilities of the Hippodrome and the Lido. In that period, the block on Via Silva, located on the edge of the citadel of the Fiera Campionaria that had grown in the void of the Piazza d'Armi, was also characterized by a prevalence of green areas, except for the construction in the early 1930s of the Istituto Nazionale Sordomuti - Liceo Artistico Boccioni in the part facing Piazzale Arduino. In the northern area of ​​the block, where you can see the remains of some structures of a horticultural company (among which the perimeter wall along Via Flavio Gioia stands out for its interest), the new residential complex stands at the end of the large block.