A story in five acts,
from industrial culture to the institutional
activities of Lombardy Region
30 June - 30 November 2021
I dream of a Milan made by my fellow architects. I certainly don't want a Milan made up of low houses with one skyscraper here, one there, another there and another there. It would be like a mouth with some long teeth and some short ones. Skyscrapers are beautiful if they’re set side by side, like islands. What I say is not a dream, I say what will be in the future. But for us in Milan, God did nothing. Nothing at all. So it is up to us to make Milan a beautiful city. It is a question of creation. That's why architects who adore Milan, like all Milanese, just want to be able to create, to build.
The exhibition Skyscraper Stories: The Pirellone and a Sixty-year Celebration of Corporate Culture and the Regional Government of Lombardy remained open to the public from June to December 2021, and can now be visited on a virtual tour.
The exhibition is divided into five “movements”, starting with the construction of the building, which began life as the Pirelli headquarters and then became the seat and symbol of Lombardy Region. We are taken on a journey through video installations, with the voices of those who have lived in the building or who have close connections with it, with a timeline showing the most important events in Italian and international history ever since 1956, when the foundation stone of the building was laid.
The 60th Anniversary of the Pirellone, from the World of Industry to the Institutional Activities of Lombardy Region
edited by Pirelli Foundation and Alessandro Colombo
prefaces by Attilio Fontana, Alessandro Fermi and
Marco Tronchetti Provera
essays by Antonio Calabrò, Alessandro Colombo, Laura Riboldi
with a contribution by Piero Bassetti
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