Pirelli skyscraper

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Pirelli skyscraper
Pirelli skyscraper
Pirelli high-rise, 2017
Basic data
Place: Milan , Italy
Construction time : 1958-1960
Status : Built
Architectural style : Modern
Architect : Giò Ponti , Pier Luigi Nervi
Use / legal
Usage : office building
Owner : Lombardy region and city of Milan
Technical specifications
Height to the top: 127.1 m
Height to the roof: 124.1 m
Floors : 31
Usable area : 24,000 m²
Building material : Structure: reinforced concrete
Height comparison
Milan : 4. ( list )
address
Address: Piazza Duca D'Aosta,
Via Fabio Filzi 22
City: Milan
Country: Italy
The Pirelli skyscraper in the urban environment, with the Milano Centrale train station in the background , photo by Paolo Monti , 1965

The Pirelli - high-rise ( Italian Grattacielo Pirelli and Palazzo Pirelli ) has long been the tallest building in the Italian city of Milan and one of its landmarks. It is located in the centrally located business district near the Milano Centrale railway station .

Construction data

The office building was built from 1958 to 1960 as the headquarters of the tire manufacturer Pirelli , hence the popular name Pirellone (Italian: "the great Pirelli"). It has been the seat of parliament and the government of the Lombardy region since 1978 , the latter moving to the newly built Palazzo Lombardia in 2011 .

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When it was completed, the Pirelli skyscraper was the second tallest building in Europe at 127.10 meters . The architects were Gio Ponti and Pier Luigi Nervi .

Building description

With its 32 floors above ground, the building is 124.0 m high, 18 m deep in the middle and 74 m wide. The flying roof at 127.10 m seems to float above the building. The continuous curtain wall is formed by insulating glazing, which is supported by aluminum frames. In a first step, the floor plan tapers only slightly and then very clearly to the closed narrow sides, clad with ceramic tiles, on which the stairwells are located; they are illuminated through a gap in the middle of the side facade.

construction

The supporting structure consists of two triangular elements on the narrow sides, an elevator core in the middle of the building and internal pillars. The vertical concrete skeleton follows the course of the forces, which can be seen from the fact that the pillars in the lower floors taper from 2 m thick to 50 cm thick in the upper floors. The internal support structure allows for an office area that is largely free of columns and enables great flexibility in the subdivision of the floor plan and within the individual open-plan offices.

  • Photo by Paolo Monti

  • Construction fence with Pirelli advertising, 1958

  • Shortly before completion, 1960

Flooring

Since Pirelli also manufactured rubber flooring , Gio Ponti designed a special floor covering. He dealt intensively with the production processes for rubber flooring and experimented with different colors and designs. The colors finally used, yellow, black and white, are considered the colors of the Pirelli company . Ponti created a particularly expressive, roughly mixed rubber flooring that he called "giallo fantastico" (fantastic yellow).

Others

The Telefunken high-rise building in Berlin (1958–60), which was built at the same time, is very similar in construction and floor plan, but dispenses with the curtain wall and instead emphasizes the structural details, the tapering supports are clearly visible on the facade. From 1960 to 1962, the Lonza skyscraper, a building that is very similar to the Pirelli skyscraper, was erected in Basel .

On 18 April 2002 the Swiss pilot Luigi Fasulo crashed his small plane type Rockwell Commander 112TC with the license plate HB-NCX in the 26th floor of the Pirelli skyscraper (three dead and 30 to 90 injured).

From 2003 the building was extensively renovated. The 26th floor has been converted into a “place of remembrance” (luogo della memoria) . In March 2009 the redesigned Belvedere was opened, in which the structure of the construction becomes visible.

The building in films

  • The opening sequence of the Italian film La Notte by Michelangelo Antonioni from 1961 shows the Pirelli skyscraper shortly after completion. The subsequent opening credits begin on the roof of the building. An outside elevator goes down from the 31st floor. The city is reflected in the glass facade.
  • In Maurizio Lucidi's feature film The Angel of Death (1971) , Tomás Milián runs an advertising agency in the building.
  • In the feature film The International (2009), the building served as the backdrop for a political assassination attempt on the Piazza Duca d'Aosta in front of it .

literature

  • Francesco DalCo, Sergio Polano, Antonio Martinelli: Milano. The 20th Century Architecture and Urbanism. Tokyo 1991.
  • Sandra Hofmeister: Grattacielo Pirelli in Milan. In: Baumeister , 2006, issue 2, pp. 74–82.
  • Roman Hollenstein: injured landmark. Gio Ponti's Pirelli skyscraper in Milan. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung , April 20, 2002.
  • Jürgen Joedicke : Design for the administrative building of the Pirelli works in Milan. In: baukunst und werkform , 1957, issue 4, pp. 204–205.
  • Terry Kirk: The Architecture of Modern Italy. Volume 2: Visions of Utopia, 1900-present. New York 2005, pp. 166-170.
  • Pier Luigi Nervi: New structures. Stuttgart 1963.
  • Rudolf Pfister: Design of the headquarters of the Pirelli Milan company. In: Baumeister, 1956, Issue 2, pp. 106-109.
  • Lisa L. Ponti: Gio Ponti. The Complete Work 1923-1978. Cambridge, MA 1990.
  • Deyan Sudjic (ed.): Design Cities. 1851-2008. Eight moments that changed the world. Exhibition catalog. London 2008.
  • Claudia J. Ziegler: Out of Ashes and Rubble. The Pirelli Tower. In: Places, 2009, issue 21/1, pp. 14-17.

See also

Web links

Commons : Pirelli Skyscraper  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Pirelli Tower. Skyscraperpage.com (accessed August 17, 2016).
  2. ↑ Baunetz Wissen: The Pirelli skyscraper in Milan
  3. ↑ Aircraft accident data and report Rockwell Commander 112TC HB-NCX. In: Aviation Safety Network WikiBase. Retrieved November 22, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Three dead as plane hits Milan's tallest building. In: CNN.com . April 19, 2001, accessed November 22, 2018 .
  5. ↑ DW: Intention or attack? In: Welt.de . April 20, 2002. Retrieved November 22, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Pilot races in his Aero Commander 112 TC in the Pirelli high-rise. In: Atropedia - The accident database. Archived from the original on November 6, 2009 ; accessed on November 22, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Ruedi Leuthold: Gino's last flight. In: Zeit Online . November 7, 2002, accessed November 22, 2018 (extremely detailed, speculative conclusion).
  8. ↑ The opening credits can also be viewed on the Internet. See: La Notte. Opening titles

Coordinates: 45 ° 29 ′ 4.7 ″  N , 9 ° 12 ′ 5.2 ″  E