Allianz Tower (), also known as Isozaki Tower (), is a 50-floor,

skyscraper A skyscraper is a tall continuously habitable building having multiple floors. Most modern sources define skyscrapers as being at least or in height, though there is no universally accepted definition, other than being very tall high-rise bui ...

Milan Milan ( , , ; ) is a city in northern Italy, regional capital of Lombardy, the largest city in Italy by urban area and the List of cities in Italy, second-most-populous city proper in Italy after Rome. The city proper has a population of nea ...

Italy Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern Europe, Southern and Western Europe, Western Europe. It consists of Italian Peninsula, a peninsula that extends into the Mediterranean Sea, with the Alps on its northern land b ...

. Designed by Japanese architect Arata Isozaki and Italian architect Andrea Maffei, it serves as the headquarters of the Italian subsidiary Allianz SpA. Locally nicknamed ''Il Dritto'' (Italian for "The Straight One"), it is the tallest building in Italy at . It sometimes ranks after the UniCredit Tower, with the latter's spire increasing its pinnacle height to 217 metres; although Allianz Tower's antenna also raised its pinnacle height to 242 metres. It is composed by eight modules by six floors each one, with the

façade A façade or facade (; ) is generally the front part or exterior of a building. It is a loanword from the French language, French (), which means "frontage" or "face". In architecture, the façade of a building is often the most important asp ...

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 by

Emporis Emporis was a real estate data mining company with headquarters in Hamburg, Germany. The company collected data and photographs of buildings worldwide, which were published in an online database from 2000 to September 2022. Emporis was acquired ...

as the third-best skyscraper that was completed in 2015. The idea of an endless tower can be compared to previous ambitions of other artists such as Constantin Brâncuși, for example, who in 1937–38 installed one of his endless columns of

Târgu Jiu Târgu Jiu (, is the capital city, capital of Gorj County in the Oltenia region of Romania. It is situated on the Southern Sub-Carpathian Mountains, Carpathians, on the banks of the river Jiu (river), Jiu. Eight localities are administered by the ...

in the park to create repeatable systems indefinitely.

References

Skyscrapers in Milan Skyscraper office buildings in Milan Buildings and structures completed in 2015 Office buildings completed in 2015 2015 establishments in Italy 21st-century architecture in Italy Allianz Arata Isozaki buildings {{Italy-struct-stub

See also

References