A massive Generali sign atop the Hadid Tower in Milan CityLife partially collapsed. Early Monday morning (June 30), the huge ...

A large sign collapsed onto the terrace of the iconic Hadid tower skyscraper in Milan, where Generali's headquarters are ...

The plane punched a hole through the slim, 30-story Pirelli building in downtown Milan, and smoke billowed out for hours from the gash over the clear afternoon sky.

For the next 700 years, ecclesiastical ambition pitted cathedrals from Beauvais to Ulm as rivals for the title of Europe’s tallest building. The race ended in 1889, when the wrought iron Eiffel Tower ...

Pirelli was in a good financial position in the 1950s and commissioned Ponti to design an American-style skyscraper. Designed with engineer Pier Luigi Nervi, the tower had a long, narrow plan that ...

Milan bay be known for many things—fashion, design, art. Riveting skyscrapers, on the other hand, have been few and far between since 1958, when Gio Ponti’s Pirelli Tower and BBPR’s Torre Velasca ...

The Italian city has a reputation for being gray, but its architecture is far from dull. By Dung Ngo Milan is among Italy’s largest and most influential cities: Founded in 590 B.C., it ...

The crash killed the 67-year-old Fasulo and two regional government lawyers working in the landmark Pirelli tower in downtown Milan, and at the time raised fears of another terrorist attack ...

Among his best-known buildings is the 32-story Pirelli Tower in Milan. As a designer, Ponti created pieces such as the famous Superleggera chair, which has been referred to as a "masterpiece of ...

“There was a desire to balance really well-known buildings—such as Eero Saarinen’s TWA Terminal at JFK Airport or Gio Ponti’s Pirelli Tower in Milan—with projects that might not be so ...

The church also tapped Pier Luigi Nervi, a celebrated Italian structural engineer, who had worked on the UNESCO headquarters in Paris and the Pirelli Tower in Milan.