Intesa Sanpaolo Building, Modern skyscraper in Turin, Italy

The Intesa Sanpaolo Building is a 167.25-metre skyscraper in Turin's Cit Turin district, designed by Renzo Piano and serving as the banking group's headquarters. It has 38 above-ground floors and 6 underground levels across 68,000 square metres. Pale blue-green glass panels form a grid of windows, with a narrow white cladding strip on the left edge and a recessed glass section below a flat white roof edged with small vertical fins; a lower glass wing stands at the left of the base.

Enrico Salza, then head of Sanpaolo IMI, pushed for the tower, presented to Turin's municipality in November 2007. After protests over its impact on the skyline, its height was cut from about 200 m to 167.25 m, 25 cm below the Mole Antonelliana. Work began on 12 December 2008; the first 50 employees moved in in December 2014, and the building was inaugurated on 10 April 2015.

The tower's name comes from the Intesa Sanpaolo banking group, formed when Turin's Sanpaolo IMI and Milan's Banca Intesa merged; Enrico Salza, then head of Sanpaolo IMI, pushed the project. In September 2019 Costas Varotsos's sculpture "La Totalità" was moved from the gardens of piazza Benefica to the space in front of the skyscraper, where passers-by can see it.

The tower stands between corso Inghilterra, corso Vittorio Emanuele II and via Cavalli in Cit Turin, a short walk from Porta Susa station. The public auditorium, hung four storeys above ground on transfer trusses, seats 364. The rooftop restaurant and terrace on the 35th floor are reached by lift; the rest of the building is bank offices.

The six white megacolumns running the full height of the building taper as they rise, because the load they carry decreases floor by floor. The rooftop greenhouse sits under a flat white roof edged with small vertical fins, and the 364-seat auditorium hangs from transfer trusses four storeys above ground.