Palazzo della Banca d'Italia, Bank palace in Piazza Garibaldi, Massa, Italy.

The Palazzo della Banca d'Italia closes the north side of Piazza Garibaldi with two pure volumes: a cylinder holding the bank offices and a sharp-angled parallelepiped for residences, rising five and seven storeys. Pink artificial-stone slabs framed by projecting concrete cornices clad both blocks, and a steel-and-glass stair cylinder stands at the south-east corner.

The old branch in an ancient palazzo on Piazza Mercurio was too small, so the Bank of Italy commissioned architect Giulio Roisecco to design a new seat in a more accessible, slightly peripheral area. Working drawings were prepared from 1965 and the building was inaugurated in 1968. The branch closed in 2008; in 2018 news circulated of a plan to move the Questura here, with adaptation works due to start in 2023 but now suspended, leaving the building disused.

The building's name comes from its role as the Bank of Italy's Massa branch, opened in 1968 and closed in 2008. Its pink artificial-stone cladding framed by projecting concrete cornices, and the cylindrical office drum lit by a large skylight, are details a visitor can still pick out from Piazza Garibaldi.

The building is disused and closed since 2008, so only the exterior can be seen. It stands between Piazza Garibaldi 3-4 and viale Chiesa, with the silo car park entrance on viale Chiesa and a narrow alley on the east linking to viale Democrazia. The cylindrical steel-and-glass stair tower is at the south-east corner of the ground-floor slab.

The complex combines a cylinder and a sharp-angled parallelepiped: the bank and stair towers are round, the residential block is not. The facades are clad in pink artificial stone slabs framed by projecting concrete cornices, and the roof of the bank carries a circular ring of exposed concrete.