A scheme made of four large central pillars and seven triangles placed at the extreme sides was therefore built. The numerous engineers and architects were necessary, due to the particular features of this building. Its reduced height-width ratio, in fact, greatly exposed the structure to the wind’s force. Gio Ponti followed the design phases, while Giuseppe Valtolina focused on the project's more structural aspect, collaborating with Pier Luigi Nervi, Arturo Danusso, Piero Locatelli and Guglielmo Meardi. The Project was appointed to Gio Ponti, Giuseppe Valtolina, Pier Luigi Nervi, Antonio Fornaroli, Alberto Rosselli, Giuseppe Rinardi and Egidio Dell’Orto. More specifically, Piero and Alberto Pirelli decided that it was time to raise Pirelli's new headquarters buildings right where their factories had already been built, although they were destroyed during the Second World War. The Pirelli Group commissioned the construction of this very tall building (hence the name). It is also remembered for the strange and unfortunate crash that occurred in 2002. The history of Milan's “Pirellone” is really fascinating, and for many reasons too: the project is certainly ambitious, greatly impacting Milan, while also influencing world architecture.
Its record was beaten only in 2010, by the Lombardy Building (Palazzo Lombardia), with its 161 metres (a record then beaten in 2011 by the UniCredit Tower, which is Italy’s tallest building with its 231 metres). It's impossible to miss.įor almost 50 years, the Pirelli building was Milan's tallest skyscraper. The Pirelli skyscraper stands in a very central area of Milan, just in front of Milan's Central Railway station (Milano Centrale). It crowned one of Italy's best economic periods of growth. Of its 31 storeys, 2 are below ground. Since it was first built, it became one of Milan's symbols and, more generally speaking, of Italy's economic renaissance. The building was designed in 1950, and built between 19. To this day, it still remains one of the world's tallest reinforced concrete skyscrapers.
The Pirelli skyscraper, which the Milanese, with great affection, call "the Pirellone", for 35 years was Italy's tallest building.
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