The Roentgen Building ( it, Edificio Roentgen) is an office building on the

Bocconi University Bocconi University ( it, Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, ) is a private university in Milan, Italy. Bocconi provides education in the fields of economics, finance, law, management, political science, public administration and comput ...

campus in

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History

The building, ultimated in 2008, was designed by

Shelley McNamara Shelley McNamara (born 1952) is an Irish architect and academic. She attended University College Dublin and graduated in 1974 with a Bachelor of Architecture. She founded Grafton Architects with Yvonne Farrell in 1978. Grafton rose to promin ...

and

Yvonne Farrell Yvonne Farrell (born 1951) is an Irish architect and academic. She is the co-founder, together with Shelley McNamara, of Grafton Architects, which won the World Building of the Year award in 2008 for their Bocconi University building in Milan ...

's Grafton Architects, winners of a contest purposefully organized in 2001, as a new office building for

. The building received the World Building of the Year 2008 award.

Description

The exterior of the building is monumental and fortress-like, being almost windowless.

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