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Piacentini Tower
Highrise building in Genoa, Italy

The Piacentini Tower , also known as the Terrazza Martini Tower (Italian: 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.

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  1. "Terrazza Martini Tower, Genoa". SkyscraperPage.com. Retrieved 31 December 2011. http://skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=9853

  2. "The History of the European Skyscraper" (PDF). CTBUH Journal: 52. 2013. http://global.ctbuh.org/resources/papers/download/256-the-history-of-the-european-skyscraper.pdf