La Nazione Building, Media palazzo in Florence, Italy.

La Nazione Building is a newspaper headquarters in Florence designed with straight lines and organized spaces for journalism operations. The structure separates areas for editorial work, press activities, and publication from public spaces in a functional layout.

The La Nazione headquarters was built between 1961 and 1966 on the site of the old Alhambra garden theatre, to a design by architect Pier Luigi Spadolini. Spadolini used extensive on-site prefabrication with a small number of large standard types, applied at this scale in Florence for the first time. The stoneforte facade, the tower form and the slit-like windows refer to local architectural tradition and face the nearby Torre della Zecca.

The building has long housed the regional newspaper La Nazione and shapes how locals think about media in the city. Passersby can observe the daily work of journalists gathering and publishing news from this central location.

The building sits in central Florence within walking distance of many attractions. From outside you can view the facade and walk around the area, though interior access may be restricted depending on operations.

The facade's grid of slit-like windows on fourteen axes and three floors was probably echoed, turned horizontal, in Italo Gamberini's State Archive opposite, built 1972-1988. The pietraforte cladding and the tower form deliberately recall the nearby Torre della Zecca.