{"id":77934,"date":"2020-05-18T06:05:57","date_gmt":"2020-05-18T05:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fondazionepirelli.org\/?p=77934"},"modified":"2022-10-06T11:37:32","modified_gmt":"2022-10-06T10:37:32","slug":"the-birth-of-a-symbol-the-pirelli-tower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fondazionepirelli.org\/en\/activities\/the-birth-of-a-symbol-the-pirelli-tower\/","title":{"rendered":"The Birth of a Symbol: The Pirelli Tower"},"content":{"rendered":"

After rejecting the idea of reconstructing the factory after the war, Alberto and Piero Pirelli<\/strong> decided to create a management and administrative headquarters, leaving the manufacturing operations at the Bicocca<\/strong> plant. Two architecture firms, Valtolina-Dell\u2019Orto<\/strong> and Ponti-Fornaroli-Rosselli<\/strong>, were entrusted in 1953<\/strong> with drawing up the executive design, and overseeing the construction work and testing. The final building plans were completed in late 1954: it was to be a 127<\/strong>-metre, 31<\/strong>-storey reinforced concrete tower, with a ground plan that was wide in the middle, gradually tapering at the ends until it almost closed at the tips.<\/p>\n

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The architect Gio Ponti<\/strong> was assisted by the engineers Pier Luigi Nervi<\/strong> and Arturo Danusso<\/strong>, who were called in by Pirelli to design the reinforced concrete structure, and the definitive design was completed in 1956<\/strong>. The \u201cBrusada\u201d was demolished and the site prepared between June and December 1955, with the first stone being officially laid<\/a> on 12 July 1956<\/strong>, in the presence of Alberto and Leopoldo Pirelli. The building was completed in 1960<\/strong>, and it was hailed by the international press<\/a> as a technically and aesthetically exceptional work: the tallest reinforced concrete building in Europe and the third tallest in the world, it was a work of extraordinary and elegant rationality.<\/p>\n

Solutions that had never been tested before in Italy were adopted for the construction site, and especially for vertical lifting: there were no conventional systems taller than 40 metres on the Italian market, so a system of two tower cranes<\/strong> was therefore designed to reach the height necessary for casting the roof slab over the top floor. The concrete production system, which was designed by the Comolli<\/strong> company, the contractor, also had unprecedented features.<\/p>\n

The building<\/a> was quite unique, both from an architectural point of view and in terms of its interior design.<\/p>

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After rejecting the idea of reconstructing the factory after the war, Alberto and Piero Pirelli decided to create a management and administrative headquarters, leaving the manufacturing operations at the Bicocca plant. Two architecture firms, Valtolina-Dell\u2019Orto and Ponti-Fornaroli-Rosselli, were entrusted in 1953 with drawing up the executive design, and overseeing the construction work and testing. 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