Palazzo Lombardia

Palazzo Lombardia ("Lombardy Palace") is a complex of buildings in Milan, Italy, including a 43-storey, 161 m (528 ft) tall skyscraper.
It is the main seat of the Lombardy regional government, located in the Centro Direzionale di Milano (CBD, Central Business District), north-west of the city centre.

Palazzo Lombardia
Alternative namesGrattacielo Regione Lombardia
General information
StatusComplete
TypeGovernment offices
Architectural styleModernism
LocationVia Melchiorre Gioia
Milan, Italy
Coordinates45.4866°N 9.1961°E / 45.4866; 9.1961
Completed23 January 2010
Cost€400 million
OwnerRegione Lombardia
Height
Roof161 m (528 ft)
Technical details
Floor count43
Floor area72,000 m2 (780,000 sq ft)
Lifts/elevators32
Design and construction
ArchitectPei Cobb Freed & Partners
DeveloperInfrastrutture Lombarde
EngineerThornton Tomasetti
Main contractorConsorzio Torre
References
[1][2][3][4]

It was first inaugurated on 22 January 2010, and officially completed on 21 March 2010. After its completion, the Regione Lombardia skyscraper was briefly the tallest skyscraper both in Milan and in Italy, being taller than both the Telecom Italia Tower in Naples and the Pirelli Tower in Milan. It lost its supremacy to the Unicredit Tower (also located in Milan) in 2011.

Palazzo Lombardia was designed by the architectural firm Pei Cobb Freed & Partners, winner of an international design competition in 2004, with Henry N. Cobb as design partner.[5] The building won the 2012 International Architecture Award for the best new global design.[6]

  • The entrance to the building.
  • Città di Lombardia square.
  • Palazzo Lombardia seen from Gae Aulenti square.

See also

References
  1. "Palazzo Lombardia". CTBUH Skyscraper Center.
  2. Palazzo Lombardia at Emporis
  3. "Palazzo Lombardia". SkyscraperPage.
  4. Palazzo Lombardia at Structurae
  5. Lombardia Region Portal: Announcement of the international competition winners, 4 May 2004, retrieved 3 August 2010 (in Italian)
  6. "NInternational Architecture Awards 2012". The Chicago Athenaeum. August 10, 2013. Archived from the original on July 31, 2012. Retrieved 10 April 2014.
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