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Piacentini Tower

Italy

The 1019th tallest building in the world

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The Piacentini Tower (Torre Piacentini), also known as the Terrazza Martini Tower (Torre della Terrazza Martini), is a highrise building located in Genoa, Italy. Construction on the building began in 1935, and finished in 1940. It was designed by Marcello Piacentini and Angelo Invernizzi. It has 31 floors, and contains office spaces. Its roof height is 108 m, and counting its spire, the full building height is 116 m. At the time of construction it was the tallest building in Europe, until 1952, when the Kotelnicheskaya Embankment was built in Moscow.

Building data from Wikidata (CC0); heights normalised. Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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