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1960 · Milan, Milan, Italy

Pirelli Tower image

Commercial offices in Milan, Italy

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Pirelli Tower

Milan, Milan, Italy · Exact work coordinates

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Commercial offices in Milan, Italy

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Field	Pirelli Tower 1960 · Milan, Milan, Italy	Atelier Peter Zumthor 1979 · Haldenstein, Graubunden, Switzerland
Type	work	bureau
Year / years	1960	1979
Place	Milan, Milan, Italy	Haldenstein, Graubunden, Switzerland
Place context	Milan, Milan, Italy	Representative site: Vals, Graubunden, Switzerland
Climate	23°C · 13.8h daylight · 7 km/h wind	10°C · 13.9h daylight · 12 km/h wind · via Therme Vals
Focus	Architecture	2 works in corpus
Architects	Gio Ponti	Peter Zumthor
Linked context	Bureaus Studio Gio Ponti	Notable works Therme Vals Bruder Klaus Field Chapel
Typologies	tower	bathhouse hospitality landscape chapel religious building
Materials	concrete	quartzite concrete water rammed concrete timber
Carbon signals	Concrete look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. Concrete	Concrete, Concrete, and Quartzite look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. Concrete Concrete Quartzite
Lower-carbon levers	Look for lower-clinker mixes, reused structure, and scope reductions before fine-grained product swaps.	Look for lower-clinker mixes, reused structure, and scope reductions before fine-grained product swaps. Use classification and product-level EPD research to place this material more precisely. Track sourcing, certification, and assembly logic rather than assuming timber is automatically low impact.
Accessibility	Access not recorded	2 of 2 recorded works are publicly accessible
Related books	No linked books yet.	Thinking Architecture