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Allianz Tower | |
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Torre Allianz (Italian) | |
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General information | |
Status | Completed |
Type | Mixed use |
Architectural style | Modern |
Location | Milan,Italy |
Construction started | 2012 |
Opening | 2015 |
Height | |
Roof | 209 m (686 ft) 259 m (850 ft) (with broadcast antenna)[3] |
Technical details | |
Floor count | 50 |
Floor area | 81,615 m2 (878,500 sq ft)[2] |
Design and construction | |
Architect(s) | Arata Isozaki & Associates Andrea Maffei Architects |
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Allianz Tower (Italian:Torre Allianz), also known asIsozaki Tower (Italian:Torre Isozaki), is a fifty-floor, 209-metre-tall (686 ft)skyscraper inMilan,Italy. Designed by Japanese architectArata Isozaki and Italian architectAndrea Maffei, it serves as the headquarters of the Italian subsidiaryAllianz SpA.[4]
Locally nicknamedIl Dritto (Italian for "The Straight One"), it is thetallest building in Italy at 209 m (686 ft)—259 m (850 ft) with broadcast antenna[5]—and with its 50 floors is the tallest to the roof. It is composed by eight modules by six floors each one, with thefaçade of the module composed by a triple-glass unit slightly curved to outside. The vertical succession of rounded forms create a feeling of slight vibration of the volume of the building as it rises upward. Elevations of the short sides are fully glazed and show the mechanical series of six panoramic lifts going up and down to the various floors of the building.
In 2016, Allianz Tower was nominated byEmporis as the third-best skyscraper that was completed in 2015.[6]
The idea of an endless tower can be compared to previous ambitions of other artists such asConstantin Brâncuși, for example, who in 1937–38 installed one of his endless columns ofTârgu Jiu in the park to create repeatable systems indefinitely.
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