Palazzo Lombardia

Palazzo Lombardia provides office and support spaces in a form that is efficient, flexible, and accessible to the public, along with outdoor gathering places intended to enhance public life and stimulate regeneration of the district.

In both scale and materiality, the podium relates to the surrounding neighborhood, while the 160-meter-tall tower addresses the nearby Pirelli Tower, the government’s former headquarters and a major icon of the modern era. The lively formal dialogue between the two structures evokes and enriches their intimate functional relationship: the Pirelli Tower will continue to serve as the government’s institutional base, while Palazzo Lombardia will serve as its administrative seat.

A glass curtain wall encloses the building’s curvilinear facades, symbolizing the transparency of the institution, while the end walls are clad in local stone, linking the complex to the historic urban fabric of Milan.

Recalling the mountains, valleys, and rivers of Lombardy, Palazzo Lombardia’s distinctive form is composed of sinuous interweaving strands of linear office space.

The building’s large central plaza, Piazza Città di Lombardia, has become a popular venue for concerts, exhibitions, festivals, and performances of all kinds—even ice-skating.

The gently curved glass-walled offices, readily adaptable to changing functional needs, integrate smoothly with the urban context while forming unique landscaped public plazas that are open and inviting to all.