Intesa Sanpaolo Turin Tower: Office Photos & Benefits

THE HEADQUARTERS · TURIN

A white tower that breathes, with a greenhouse on top

Renzo Piano Building Workshop designed the tower at the corner of Corso Inghilterra and Corso Vittorio Emanuele II, near Porta Susa station. Below ground, a low garden is the hub for the company restaurant and the employee kindergarten; above it, office floors with 3.20 m ceilings, a vertical winter garden on the south staircase, and a training center. At the top, a naturally ventilated bioclimatic greenhouse holds a restaurant, an exhibition space and a roof terrace open to the public. Groundwater cools the offices and solar panels cover the whole south façade.

Renzo Piano Building Workshop
166 m tall
LEED Platinum (2015)
Bioclimatic greenhouse on top
Daycare for up to 49 children
New staff gym and sub-level bar

The tower and the Giardino Grosa (Renzo Piano Building Workshop)

Renzo Piano Building Workshop designed the 166 m tower at the corner of Corso Inghilterra and Corso Vittorio Emanuele II, near Porta Susa station.

The full height of the tower seen from a path across a lawn under a deep blue sky — The tower from the park · © Renzo Piano Building Workshop

Looking up at the tower's glass facade against a blue sky with clouds — Looking up the facade · © Intesa Sanpaolo

Aerial view of a park with lawns and autumn-coloured trees — Giardino Grosa · © Intesa Sanpaolo

The tower rising beyond a tree-lined avenue and low brick buildings, with mountains on the horizon — Above the city skyline · Tomatis Davide / CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

The white tower in front of mountains, seen above Turin's rooftops — Seen from across the city · Zairon / CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

The tower silhouetted against an orange sky and mountain ridge — At sunset · Zairon / CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Close view looking up the tower from its base, with the company name on a white wall — At the base · Fred Romero / CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons

A white steel strut and pin joint supporting a canopy beside a glazed low building — Structural detail · Guilhem Vellut / CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons

The bioclimatic greenhouse and Piano 35

At the top, a naturally ventilated bioclimatic greenhouse holds a restaurant, an exhibition space and a roof terrace open to the public.

Shrubs and young trees planted under a bright glass roof — Planting in the greenhouse · © Intesa Sanpaolo

Olive-like trees among steel frames and glass walls, with the city beyond — Greenhouse terraces · © Intesa Sanpaolo

Steel cross-bracing above a level with tables and a large potted plant, a dining area below — Greenhouse levels · © Intesa Sanpaolo

Two potted trees and a wooden bench in a bright glazed space, an escalator behind — Trees and bench · © Intesa Sanpaolo

Multi-storey glazed walls with steel frames around a planted wooden deck — Glazed atrium · © Intesa Sanpaolo

Colourful low seating on a wooden floor in front of a tall glass wall — Lounge · © Intesa Sanpaolo

A red wall beside an open window looking down over Turin — View over Turin · © Intesa Sanpaolo

Offices and auditorium

The office floors have 3.20 m ceilings, and the auditorium seats 364 people according to Renzo Piano Building Workshop.

Office floor with a meeting table, white shelving and floor-to-ceiling windows over the city — Office floor · © Renzo Piano Building Workshop

Shared desks with colourful chairs and laptops in an open-plan office — Open-plan office · © Intesa Sanpaolo

Rows of red seats facing the camera in a wood-panelled hall — Auditorium seating · © Renzo Piano Building Workshop

Facts: Renzo Piano Building Workshop, “Intesa Sanpaolo office building” · group.intesasanpaolo.com, “Renzo Piano's project” · Intesa Sanpaolo press release, June 2025 (tower's tenth anniversary).

Turin: the tower and Piazza San Carlo

Building	Address
Intesa Sanpaolo tower (Grattacielo Intesa Sanpaolo)	Corso Inghilterra 3, 10138 Turin, Italy
Intesa Sanpaolo, Turin	Piazza San Carlo 156, 10121 Turin, Italy

Source: group.intesasanpaolo.com, Turin tower contact details and “International presence” · See them on the map ↓

ArchitectRenzo Piano Building Workshop

Interior designMichele De Lucchi / Pierluigi Copat Architecture

Height166 m (545 ft)

Competition · design2006 · 2006–2015

CertificationLEED Platinum (2015)

Solar panels1,600 m² (17,200 sq ft)

Office ceiling height3.20 m (10.5 ft)

Auditorium364 seats (RPBW) · 336 (2025)

Source: Renzo Piano Building Workshop project page · group.intesasanpaolo.com, “Renzo Piano's project” · press release, June 2025. Floor area not published.

Office tour videos

La Festa d’estate al GrattacieloIntesa Sanpaolo · 2016 · YouTube ↗

Benefits (Italy)

Remote work120 days

Up to 120 smart-working days a year with no monthly limit, extendable to 140 in specific cases; start any time from 7 to 10 a.m.

Short week4 days

On a voluntary basis, 9 hours over 4 days with equal pay; about 17,000 people had chosen it by April 2023.

Meal voucher at home€4.50/day

Meal voucher allowance also paid on smart-working days from home (2023 agreement).

Supplementary health care€112.9M

Paid by the bank in 2025 for the Group health fund; 88,008 people covered, in service and retired, plus families.

Supplementary pension€199.3M

Bank contributions to pension funds in 2025, with ESG-focused investment options; 71,879 people.

Daycare at the tower49 places

Nursery for employees' children aged 6–36 months, beside the sunken garden of the Turin tower.

Psychological supportIncluded

A service run by an external team of psychologists and psychotherapists, plus nutritionists and personal trainers through People Care.

Time bankMatched

Colleagues donate leave to people in serious situations and the bank adds the same amount, up to 100,000 hours.

Source: group.intesasanpaolo.com, “Welfare and Benefit” (2025) and “Next Way of Working” (2026) · press release, 26 May 2023 · “Commitment to people: data” (2025) · press release, June 2025

How Intesa Sanpaolo keeps people, in its own words

63.9 hTraining per person

15.4 million training hours across the Group in 2025.

8,946Promotions in 2025

9.9% of staff were promoted; 58.4% of them were women.

83%Satisfaction index

Employee satisfaction index in Italy in the 2025 climate survey.

3,148Staff mortgages

Mortgages granted to staff in 2025, worth €453 million, plus 36,009 staff loans.

160,000 hTime bank

Over 35,000 hours donated by colleagues in 2025 reached 160,000 with the bank's top-up; corporate volunteering days continued too.

Top EmployerItaly and Europe 2026

Fifth consecutive Top Employer Italy certification, and Top Employer Europe for the second year.

Source: group.intesasanpaolo.com, “Commitment to people: data” (2025), “Next Way of Working” and “Our people” (2026)

Who works here

Staff by category · Group, 2025

Professional areas 60.3%Middle managers 37.6%Executives

Gender · Group, 2025

Women 54.7%Men 45.3%

90,831

people in the Group (Dec 31, 2025)

41.7%

women among executives and middle managers

47.7

average age of employees

89%

covered by collective bargaining

3,500

people work for the bank in Turin

Source: group.intesasanpaolo.com, “Commitment to people: data” (2025) · results press release, Feb 2026 · press release, June 2025

Office history: from a Turin brotherhood in 1563 to a Renzo Piano tower

1563
Compagnia di San Paolo, Turin
A brotherhood called the Compagnia di San Paolo laid the foundations in Turin for what became the Monte di Pietà, lending to the poor at very low interest. It grew into Istituto Bancario San Paolo di Torino.
Source: group.intesasanpaolo.com, History: Istituto Bancario Sanpaolo di Torino

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1823
Cariplo, Milan
Count Giovanni Pietro Porro set up the Cassa di Risparmio delle Provincie Lombarde in Milan to encourage household savings in Lombardy.
Source: group.intesasanpaolo.com, History: Cariplo

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1894
Banca Commerciale Italiana, Piazza della Scala
Banca Commerciale Italiana was founded in Milan with German, Austrian and Swiss capital. The bank, based in Piazza della Scala, opened the first foreign branch of an Italian bank in London in 1911.
Source: group.intesasanpaolo.com, History: Banca Commerciale Italiana

Palazzo della Banca Commerciale Italiana, Piazza della Scala, early 1900s · AnonymousUnknown author / Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
1998
Banca Intesa and Sanpaolo IMI
Cariplo and Banco Ambrosiano Veneto merged into Banca Intesa, which took in Banca Commerciale Italiana in 1999–2001. The same year, San Paolo di Torino and IMI merged into Sanpaolo IMI.
Source: group.intesasanpaolo.com, History

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2007
Intesa Sanpaolo, Turin and Milan
Intesa Sanpaolo was created on 1 January 2007 by merging Banca Intesa and Sanpaolo IMI. Its press releases carry the dateline Turin/Milan; its Turin address is Piazza San Carlo 156.
Source: group.intesasanpaolo.com, History · International presence · press releases

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2015
The Renzo Piano tower
After a 2006 competition, the tower on Corso Inghilterra was completed in 2015 and certified LEED Platinum. 2,000 of the bank's 3,500 Turin staff work there; in ten years it hosted more than 150,000 visitors over 700 event days.
Source: Renzo Piano Building Workshop · Intesa Sanpaolo press release, June 2025

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Map: how the headquarters moved

Two cities, three addresses: from the Turin brotherhood of 1563 and Banca Commerciale Italiana on Milan's Piazza della Scala to Piazza San Carlo and the Renzo Piano tower by Porta Susa, both in Turin.

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1 · 1563Turin — The Compagnia di San Paolo is founded in Turin.
2 · 1894Piazza della Scala, Milan — Banca Commerciale Italiana, based in Piazza della Scala.
3 · 2007Piazza San Carlo 156, Turin — Intesa Sanpaolo is created; its Turin address is Piazza San Carlo 156.
4 · 2015Corso Inghilterra 3, Turin — The Renzo Piano tower, home to 2,000 people.

Addresses: group.intesasanpaolo.com (History, International presence, Turin tower) · Locations: OpenStreetMap

What Intesa Sanpaolo does

Intesa Sanpaolo is Italy's largest banking group, with wealth management, retail and corporate banking, asset management and insurance, plus subsidiary banks in Central and Eastern Europe, the Middle East and North Africa.

Six divisions: Banca dei Territori, IMI Corporate & Investment Banking, International Banks, Private Banking, Asset Management and Insurance.

Where the money came from · operating income by division, 2025

Banca dei TerritoriRetail, Exclusive and business customers in Italy · 45%

€12.3B

IMI Corporate & Investment Banking18%

€4.8B

Private Banking13%

€3.4B

International Banks12%

€3.3B

Insurance7%

€1.8B

Asset Management4%

€1.1B

Source: “Intesa Sanpaolo: consolidated results as at 31 December 2025” (press release, 2 Feb 2026), breakdown by business area

Operating income, 2025€27.3Bup 0.6% from €27.1B in 2024

Net income, 2025€9.3Bup 7.6% from €8.7B

Branches3,5692,646 in Italy and 923 abroad

Net income per person€0.10M€9.3B ÷ 90,831

Source: results press release, 2 Feb 2026 · per-person figure calculated by eciffo

Growth: revenue vs. people

1.3×operating income, 2020 → 2025
€20.4B → €27.3B

−7%people, 2021 → 2025
97,698 → 90,831

YearRevenueEmployees

FY2020

€20.4B

—

FY2021

€20.8B

97,698

FY2022

€21.5B

95,574

FY2023

€25.1B

94,368

FY2024

€27.1B

94,736

FY2025

€27.3B

90,831

Operating income in € billions and people at 31 December, from each year's results press release (FY2021–FY2025); 2020 as restated in the FY2021 release. Banks report operating income rather than revenue. Multiples calculated by eciffo.

Chief executives

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2013 – today

Carlo Messina

Managing Director and CEO since 29 September 2013; reappointed by the new Board on 29 April 2025.

Intesa Sanpaolo was created on 1 January 2007 from Banca Intesa and Sanpaolo IMI. It combines 320 institutions founded in 189 Italian localities; the oldest roots are Banco di Napoli (1539) and the Compagnia di San Paolo (1563).

Source: group.intesasanpaolo.com, Top Management biographies · press release, 29 April 2025 · press release, July 2020 (brief history of the Group)

Intesa Sanpaolo's official social accounts

Intesa Sanpaolo's official accounts, as listed in its press releases.

X (Twitter)@intesasanpaolo ↗LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/intesa-sanpaolo ↗Instagram@intesasanpaolo ↗Facebook@intesasanpaolo ↗YouTubeyoutube.com/@intesasanpaolo ↗Newsroomgroup.intesasanpaolo.com/en/newsroom ↗

Intesa Sanpaolo: questions people ask

Where is Intesa Sanpaolo's headquarters?

In Turin, Italy. The Intesa Sanpaolo tower is at Corso Inghilterra 3, near Porta Susa station, and the bank's Turin address is Piazza San Carlo 156. The Group also works from Milan.

Source: group.intesasanpaolo.com

Who designed the Intesa Sanpaolo tower in Turin?

Renzo Piano Building Workshop, which won the 2006 competition; Michele De Lucchi and Pierluigi Copat Architecture designed the interiors.

Source: Renzo Piano Building Workshop

How tall is the Intesa Sanpaolo tower?

166 metres (545 ft). It has 26 office floors topped by a training center and a bioclimatic greenhouse.

Source: Renzo Piano Building Workshop

How many people work in the tower?

About 2,000, out of the 3,500 people the bank employs in Turin. The Group had 90,831 people at the end of 2025.

Source: Press release, June 2025 · results press release, Feb 2026

Can you visit the Intesa Sanpaolo tower?

Yes, parts of it. The greenhouse at the top with the Piano 35 restaurant and lounge bar, the auditorium and Spazio Trentacinque host public events; in ten years more than 150,000 visitors came to 700 days of events.

Source: group.intesasanpaolo.com · press release, June 2025

Is the tower sustainable?

It was certified LEED Platinum in 2015. Groundwater cools the offices, 1,600 m² of solar panels cover the south façade, and rainwater is reused for irrigation and toilets.

Source: Renzo Piano Building Workshop · group.intesasanpaolo.com

Does Intesa Sanpaolo allow remote work?

Yes. Staff in Italy can work remotely up to 120 days a year, extendable to 140 in specific cases, with a meal voucher on home-working days.

Source: group.intesasanpaolo.com, Next Way of Working · press release, May 2023

Does Intesa Sanpaolo have a four-day week?

Yes, on a voluntary basis: 9 hours over 4 days with equal pay, where the job allows. About 17,000 people had chosen it by April 2023.

Source: group.intesasanpaolo.com, Welfare and Benefit · press release, May 2023

Is there childcare at the tower?

Yes. A nursery for employees' children takes up to 49 children aged 6 to 36 months, next to the sunken garden and the company restaurant.

Source: Press release, June 2025 · Renzo Piano Building Workshop

Intesa Sanpaolo Headquarters & offices · Turin, Italy

A 166-metre Renzo Piano tower in Turin where 2,000 people work under a public greenhouse, above a sunken garden with a daycare for their children.