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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	Joseph Poelaert 1850 · Brussels, Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium
Type	work	bureau
Year / years	1960	1850
Place	Milan, Milan, Italy	Brussels, Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium
Place context	Milan, Milan, Italy	Representative site: Brussels, Brussels, Belgium
Climate	13°C · 13.9h daylight · 10 km/h wind	11°C · 14.3h daylight · 12 km/h wind · via Church of Our Lady of Laeken
Focus	Architecture	5 works in corpus
Architects	Gio Ponti	Joseph Poelaert
Linked context	Bureaus Studio Gio Ponti	Notable works Church of Our Lady of Laeken Palace of Justice, Brussels Church of St. Catherine, Brussels La Monnaie
Typologies	tower	church sacred space courthouse civic building monumental architecture house performance venue
Materials	concrete	stone
Carbon signals	Concrete look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. Concrete	Stone look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. Stone
Lower-carbon levers	Look for lower-clinker mixes, reused structure, and scope reductions before fine-grained product swaps.	Check source geography, fabrication intensity, and whether stone is structural, cladding, or finish-only.
Accessibility	Access not recorded	5 of 5 recorded works are publicly accessible
Related books	No linked books yet.	No linked books yet.