Palazzo Lombardia

Palazzo Lombardia
Palazzo Lombardia
Alternative names	Grattacielo Regione Lombardia
General information
Status	Completed
Type	Government offices
Architectural style	Modernism
Location	Via Melchiorre Gioia ; Milan, Italy
Coordinates	45°29′12″N 9°11′46″E / 45.4866°N 9.1961°E
Completed	23 January 2010
Cost	€400 million
Owner	Regione Lombardia
Height
Roof	161 m (528 ft)
Technical details
Floor count	43
Floor area	72,000 m2 (780,000 sq ft)
Lifts/elevators	32
Design and construction
Architect(s)	Pei Cobb Freed & Partners
Developer	Infrastrutture Lombarde
Engineer	Thornton Tomasetti
Main contractor	Consorzio Torre
References

Palazzo Lombardia ("Lombardy Building") is an office complex 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.

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]