An open space integrated with the external environment in the heart of Milan, in the Porta Volta district, designed to welcome those arriving, from the customer to the company, from the professional to the student, and to reflect the value of open innovation: this is how the Microsoft House, the new headquarters of the Redmond company that opens alongside the Feltrinelli Foundation, in the first Italian building designed by Herzog and De Meuron.
“We wanted to break the inside-outside concept, create a constant flow with the city, get out of a closed office that can be repulsive, marrying the Feltrinelli Foundation project, which we fell in love with” explained the CEO. of Microsoft Italy Carlo Purassanta. A project that has seen 10 million investment for the construction and transfer of the headquarters to which are added 10 million a year between direct and related costs.
The goal of Microsoft House is to welcome over 2017 visitors, 200 professionals, 10 students and 4 school administrators in XNUMX by making technologies, skills, training opportunities and opportunities for discussion available. “It is a space for the ecosystem and not just for our collaborators with the aim of impacting the digitization of the country: Italy needs a lot of transformation and we wanted to demonstrate how digital influences the life and professional organization of everyone – added Purassanta – only together can great things be done to make the country grow”.
An open space integrated with the external environment in the heart of Milan, in the Porta Volta district, designed to welcome those arriving, from the customer to the company, from the professional to the student, and to reflect the value of open innovation: this is how the Microsoft House, the new headquarters of the Redmond company that opens alongside the Feltrinelli Foundation, in the first Italian building designed by Herzog and De Meuron.
“We wanted to break the inside-outside concept, create a constant flow with the city, get out of a closed office that can be repulsive, marrying the Feltrinelli Foundation project, which we fell in love with” explained the CEO. of Microsoft Italy Carlo Purassanta. A project that has seen 10 million investment for the construction and transfer of the headquarters to which are added 10 million a year between direct and related costs.
The goal of Microsoft House is to welcome over 2017 visitors, 200 professionals, 10 students and 4 school administrators in XNUMX by making technologies, skills, training opportunities and opportunities for discussion available. “It is a space for the ecosystem and not just for our collaborators with the aim of impacting the digitization of the country: Italy needs a lot of transformation and we wanted to demonstrate how digital influences the life and professional organization of everyone – added Purassanta – only together can great things be done to make the country grow”.
