Palazzo Lombardia, in Cittą di Lombardia Square, is a complex climaxing with a 161 meters skyscraper. Emerging from an Interantional contest organized by Lombardia Region, with over 98 projects presented. Works for its completion took over 3 years, granting Milan with the largest indoors square in Italy, where the auditorium stands.
Reborn from an area of 80 thousand square meters of industrial structure, the complex of the former Tobacco Factory is a citadel with spaces allocated for public use and also for private residences. Among the former, still under construction, Experimental Film for fiction and advertising, Civic Schools of Cinema, the Polo cine-audio-visual of the Lombardy Region.
Pirelli Skyscraper, slender, high, ambitious, apparently trying to grap the sky: 127 meter of glass, iron and concrete. Here's a building that, when watching, pushes to glance up high. "Pirellone", as commonly called by Milanese, is probably the most prestigious creations in the Milanese afterwar skyline. Symbol of Milan design and expression of dynamism of Lombardia's manufacturing entrepreneurial system. Since 1978, Pirelly Sjyscraper is house of Lombardia Region.
With 250 seats, located adjacent to the church of Santa Maria Beltrade, the theater is one of the few remaining single-screen cinema in Milan. Now renovated, it is a short walk from MM1.