Matitone
Sign in to saveThe Matitone (a popular nickname meaning literally "big pencil", officially San Benigno North Tower) is a high-rise office building in the San Teodoro district of the area in Genoa, Italy. Built between 1987 and 1990, and inaugurated in 1992, the tower stands at tall with 26 floors. It was designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, Mario Lanata and Andrea Messina and is currently used as a business center. It has been the tallest building in Genoa since its completion in 1992.
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- Instance of
- skyscraper
- Country
- Italy
- Located in
- Genoa
- Image
- Porto di Genova, Matitone, vista.jpg
- Height
- 109
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- Matitone
- architect
- Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
- architectural style
- postmodern architecture
- Commons gallery
- Matitone
- floors above ground
- 24
- date of official opening
- 1992-00-00
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The Matitone (a popular nickname meaning literally "big pencil", officially San Benigno North Tower) is a high-rise office building in the San Teodoro district of the area in Genoa, Italy. Built between 1987 and 1990, and inaugurated in 1992, the tower stands at tall with 26 floors. It was designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, Mario Lanata and Andrea Messina and is currently used as a business center. It has been the tallest building in Genoa since its completion in 1992.
==History== The building was designed by Skidmore, Owings and Merrill in the late 1980s, one of the largest American engineering, architecture and urban planning firms, in collaboration with architects Mario Lanata and Andrea Messina to become a modern office building. Construction of the complex began on November 16, 1987, and was completed in November 1990, in view of the 1992 Columbiades.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Matitone” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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