Palazzo Galbani, Neues Bauen office building in central Milan, Italy.

Palazzo Galbani is an office building on Via Fabio Filzi, at the corner with Via Giovanni Battista Pirelli, facing the Pirelli skyscraper in Milan's business district. Its main body is a tapered, asymmetrical prism of eleven floors above ground level, 39.80 metres tall, wrapped in green-blue crystal slabs banded with anodised aluminium. A restaurant stands to the north and a bank to the south; each floor is one pillar-free hall of about 300 square metres.

Built from 1956 to 1959 as the Galbani company headquarters, the complex was designed by Eugenio and Ermenegildo Soncini with Giuseppe Pestalozza, while Pier Luigi Nervi engineered the structure. The client asked for an unmistakable image usable in advertising, and the architects answered with a tapered, asymmetric prism clad in green-blue glass.

The building represents an Italian interpretation of modern architecture through its distinctive concrete frame structure and thin reinforced concrete slabs. This approach was exemplary for efficient construction at the time, eliminating the need for internal support columns.

The building is centrally located in Milan and easily reached on foot, with two basement levels for parking and archives below the main tower. Visitors should note this is an active office building, so interior access is limited and viewing the distinctive octagonal shape from outside provides the best perspective.

The rooftop sculpture by Enrico Ciuti served as advertising for Galbani, the cheese company that commissioned the building. Ciuti also painted the fire-enamelled sheet panels lining many interior and exterior walls; because enamel changes colour when fired and cannot be fired twice, he had to apply it in a single pass.