Palazzo Uffici Olivetti, Corporate office building in Ivrea, Italy.
Palazzo Uffici Olivetti is an office building in Ivrea with a star-shaped plan: three wings meet at 120-degree angles around a central block. That core holds service rooms and a monumental hexagonal staircase topped by a large Murano glass skylight. The load-bearing structure is concrete, the exterior finished in pink and grey granite, and the upper floors have mirrored glass with a pantograph opening system.
Olivetti commissioned the building from architects Annibale Fiocchi, Gian Antonio Bernasconi and Marcello Nizzoli, and it was built between 1960 and 1964. It was intended as a representative headquarters during a period of industrial expansion and housed the company presidency, among other offices.
The building's name, Palazzo Uffici, is simply what it was built to be: the company's office headquarters, commissioned by Olivetti to house its presidency during a period of industrial expansion. Its three wings meet at 120-degree angles around a central block, a layout visitors can read from outside.
The building is part of the Olivetti complex in Ivrea, inscribed by UNESCO as "Ivrea, industrial city of the 20th century". The three wings meet at 120 degrees around the central block, so orient yourself from the hexagonal monumental staircase and its Murano glass skylight before exploring the rest.
The central block holds a monumental hexagonal staircase topped by a large Murano glass skylight. The upper floors' mirrored glazing uses a pantograph opening system, and the exterior is finished in pink and grey granite over a concrete frame.
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