Overview

• On July 26, Boeri published a public defense asserting his identity as an architect committed to Milan’s urban landscape rather than a “cementificator.”
• He accused media outlets of running a defamatory campaign by publishing decontextualized fragments of his private messages before his lawyers reviewed them.
• Boeri explained that his “warning” to Mayor Sala was a sincere alarm about the Torre Botanica’s repeated rejections by the Commissione Paesaggio, not a coercive threat.
• He revealed the Torre Botanica design for via Pirelli 39 was only approved after he relinquished its original experimental concept in favor of a conventional plan.
• He urged that Milan’s urban complexity governance model, which he credits with decades of innovation, should not be dismantled during the corruption inquiry.