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Generali Tower

tourist highlight Generali Tower · Milan, Italy · 2017-01-01

Generali Tower, or Hadid Tower (lo Storto, "the Twisted One"), is an office skyscraper completed in 2017 in Milan, Italy that reaches a height of 177.4 m (582 ft) with 44 floors (+ 3 floors basement), and a total floor area of about 67,000 square metres (720,000 sq ft).

The record

Date2017-01-01
PlaceGenerali Tower, Milan, Italy
Coordinates45.4783, 9.1552 (landmark-level precision)
ScopeLocal interest
Sourcesen.wikipedia · Wikidata Q3995195
Added2026-08-20 · source: wikipedia-en

Coordinates are given at landmark level. A landmark-level coordinate points at the structure; a city-level one points at the settlement, not at a parcel.

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Time layers at this place

One place, several moments in time. This location has 14 recorded time layers between 1928 and 1999 — slide through them:

1928
Victor Emmanuel III of Italy assassination attempt
1931
Triennale di Milano
1946
QT8
1957
1957 Summer Deaflympics
1964
Cairoli (Milan Metro)
1964
Cadorna (Milan Metro)
1964
Lotto (Milan Metro)
1971
Murder of Simonetta Ferrero
1975
QT8 (Milan Metro)
1978
Lanza (Milan Metro)
1980
Lampugnano (Milan Metro)
1985
Palatrussardi
1986
Alfa Romeo Portello Plant
1999
Piazzale Cadorna

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