The building is located in Milan’s Viale Monte Grappa, in the immediate vicinity of the new Porta Nuova business centre, and is an iconic building from the 1970s.
Formerly the headquarters of Tecnimont, it was recognisable by its unusual shell of anodised aluminium and glass, designed at the time to celebrate the company’s technical construction skills.
In continuity with the building’s original image, it was decided to remodel the outer shell with a new glass façade, characterised by sunshades, also made of glass, which not only increases the permeability and luminosity of the rooms, strengthening the relationship between the exterior and interior of the building, but also and above all giving the building the same strong identity that has always distinguished it. The project also included the partial demolition of one of the fronts and the consequent creation of a new important and scenic access to the building through an internal square, covered by a large canopy and characterised by green furnishing elements.
The building is the Italian headquarters of Amazon.