PwC Tower

Project Details

Project Description

FROM THE ARCHITECTS:

Pricewaterhouse Coopers will become the single tenant of the Libeskind Tower at CityLife. The Libeskind Tower has been created in line with state-of-the-art building and environmental sustainability criteria, making it one of the most recognizable buildings of the new Milan skyline. The tower will complete the business district of the CityLife master plan, housing 3,000 professionals, 500 staff, and four service lines for customers.

“After the two towers by Zaha Hadid and Arata Isoza and the opening of the CityLife Shopping District, the realization of Libeskind Tower represents a further step towards the conclusion of CityLife project which adds to what has been already given back to the city” declared Armando Borghi, CEO of CityLife.

PwC Tower will in fact become the building with the lowest environmental impact allowed by current technology, offering a modern, exciting and innovative space that expresses an organizational culture which promotes sharing and collaboration

PwC’s choice originates from a survey which involved its staff at all levels: listening to these professionals’ needs, a space coherent with an ever-evolving profession has emerged. The Tower has been designed to integrate the most advanced concepts and innovative technology for safety and demonstrates a long-term commitment to PwC’s corporate welfare strategies.

After closely evaluating roughly ten proposals, shortlisted to three, the final decision was made following the evaluation that only the Tower reflected the values that characterize PwC: effective integration among technology, innovative working models, sustainability and a commitment to quality-of-life.

The PwC Tower will begin construction in the next few months following the successful conclusion of the three underground floors, started in 2016 and final completion is estimated for the end of 2019.

The PwC Tower has been known, since the planning stage, as “The Curved One” for its vertical shape which develops as a prism, part of a sphere encompassing in an ideal embrace the “Tre Torri Square”, the biggest Milan pedestrian area, and one of the largest in Europe. The building will have its back to Domodossola Square and will come up beside the two iconic CityLife’s Towers, Isozaki Tower occupied by Allianz and Hadid Tower, which will house the new Generali’s offices from the second half of 2018.

The structure of the PwC Tower will conclude at 175 meters high with 31 floors, 28 executive offices, and more than 33,500 mq of total surface. The upper part of the Tower will be the “Crown”, a broad glass structure which will close the spherical tendency, crucial to the Tower concept.