Milan
Renzo Piano in Lodi
Commissioned from architect Renzo Lodi in 1991 on the site occupied by an ex-dairy factory, the recently completed headquarters of the Banca Popolare di Lodi is one of the most interesting designs in Italy from the architect from Genoa.
Standing beside the railway track, the complex is a tall building that occupies an entire block with a uniform front marked at regular intervals by slender transversal cuts.
Inside there is a large public square covered by a light tensile structure in glass and steel cables surrounded by the entrances to the bank, an auditorium, commercial services and walkways in the gardens that together create a new and lively polyfunctional centre for the local citizens.
The offices of the bank are therefore arrived at by the public passing through the square dominated by the auditorium and by the cylindrical structures of two "silos", modern stores belonging to the bank.
The entire complex is lined with brick panels that recall the farming buildings of the area in their shape, colour and elegant transparency.
| Neighborhood: | South-east |
| Address: | Viale Polenghi Lombardo |
| Lodi, 20075 |