It is not as tall as the Mole Antonelliana, nor as the Unicredit Tower in Milan (currently the tallest building in Italy), but now even Intesa Sanpaolo has its own skyscraper: it was inaugurated today in Turin and cost – overall – half a billion euros and years and years of work but it is already a symbol of the city. With its 166 meters, the new Turin headquarters of the bank, commissioned at the time by the then president of Sanpaolo Enrico Salza (current president of Fideuram) and built by the architect Renzo Piano, is at the forefront of environmental sustainability and architectural innovation: mechanized "double skin" glass cladding among the largest in the world, geothermal power supply and LED lighting, bioclimatic greenhouse, load support on six mega-columns, "suspended" auditorium internal variable.
The Intesa Sanpaolo skyscraper is already a symbol of the Piedmontese capital.
I 44 plans of the skyscraper (38 of which above ground) are connected by 17 lifts and will become the workplace of 2 people. Overall, the work required an investment – planning and final fittings included – of around half a billion euros, of which 2,5 million for the redevelopment of the Grosa Garden, the public green area located between the skyscraper and the Palace of Justice of Turin.
