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Centro Direzionale Banca Lombarda

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Centro Direzionale Banca Lombarda

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Gregotti Associati International
Gregotti Associati International
Vittorio Gregotti was born in Novara in 1927 and he graduated in architecture at the University Politecnico di Milano in 1952. From 1953 to 1968 he carried out his activities in collaboration with Ludovico Meneghetti and Giotto Stoppino. In 1974 he has founded the practice Gregotti Associati, which he is president. He was a professor of Architectural Composition at the Institute of Architecture University in Venice, he taught at the Faculty of Architecture of Milan and Palermo, and was visiting professor at the University of Tokyo, Buenos Aires, Sao Paulo, Lausanne, Harvard, Philadelphia, Princeton, Cambridge (UK) and M.I.T. Cambridge (Massachusetts.). He has participated in several international exhibitions and has been responsible for the introductory section of the XIII Triennale (Milan 1964), for which she won the International Award. From 1974 to 1976 he was director of visual arts and architecture of the Venice Biennale. He is Academic St. Luke from 1976 and the Brera Academy from 1995. He was awarded an honorary degree from the Technical University in Prague in 1996 and the Faculty of Architecture of the Polytechnic of Bucharest in 1999. Since 1997 he is a member of the BDA (Bund der deutschen Architekten) and since 1999 he is an honorary member of the American Institute of Architects. From 1953 to 1955 he was editor of Casabella, from 1955 to 1963 editor of Casabella-Continuity; from 1963 to 1965 Director of Edilizia Moderna and responsible for the architecture section of the magazine Il Verri; from 1979 to 1998 he was Director of Rassegna and from 1982 to 1996 again Director of Casabella. From 1992 to 1997 he collaborated with the BBC since 1997 and works with the main Italian newspapers La Repubblica and Il Corriere della Sera.
Centro Direzionale Banca Lombarda

Centro Direzionale Banca Lombarda

“It seems that the architecture of this building is founded upon the complex quality of the construction, and its ability to incorporate parts of urban morphology” Gregotti Associati

Project Specs

  • Location: Brescia
  • Completed: 2006
  • Contractor: SBIM Spa
  • Photographer: D. Domenicali
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Technology

Centro Direzionale Banca Lombarda

SYSTEMS

Unitised façade

Double skin curtain walling

Ventilated façades

Featuring elements
 

Designed by

Gregotti Associati International Architects

The Banca Lombarda Headquarters is part of an overall project which comprises a residential area, public spaces with a pedestrian square, a garden and parking places above and below ground.

The square is naturally the heart of the whole project, around it are both the building of the bank and the three residential blocks with shops and office areas.

The Banca Lombarda Headquarters building hosts both offices and a wide congress area with two meeting rooms of 150 and 500 seats respectively. The building is 12 storeys (50 m) high, having a total surface area of approximately 30.000 m2 plus a parking area of 25.000 m2. The building layout is particularly complex: on a square plan with a side of 50 m, it’s formed by two main wings which are connected by a “bridge” element at the 4th floor, thus creating a “C” shaped body and forming an internal courtyard over the main entrance. Right in the middle of this “C” rises the main meeting room: with a pyramid form on a squared base, completely clad in stone.

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