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Pirelli Headquarters & offices · Milan, Italy
Pirelli · Milan, Italy
Pirelli's headquarters wraps a 46-metre factory cooling tower from 1950 inside a glass-fronted cube — its auditorium and meeting rooms now fill the tower.
The building, the welfare programme and 150 years of moves across Milan — then the business. Every fact from Pirelli, the Pirelli Foundation and the building's façade maker.
- 46 mtall cooling tower inside the HQ
- ≈ 1,700people in the four HQ buildings
- 14 weeksminimum fully paid maternity leave, every industrial country
- €6.8Brevenue, 2025
Sources: corporate.pirelli.com (Pirelli Headquarters, Pirelli in brief) · pirelli.com “MORE wellbeing at the heart of Pirelli” (Jan 2025) · Preliminary results release, Feb 25, 2026
Companies / Italy / Tyres / Pirelli
THE HEADQUARTERS · BICOCCA, MILAN · 2004
A glass cube built around a factory cooling tower
Pirelli's head office grew out of the last witness of its old Bicocca factory: the cooling tower of the power plant built in 1950. Gregotti Associati boxed it inside a 10-storey, 50 × 50 m cube with offices on three sides. The fourth side is a vast glass wall that puts the tower on display and faces the 15th-century Bicocca degli Arcimboldi villa, Pirelli's reception venue.
- Design: Gregotti Associati
- 10 storeys, 50 × 50 m
- 1,800 m² glass façade (≈ 19,375 sq ft), 168 tonnes
- Auditorium inside the 1950 cooling tower
- Aerial walkways and a rooftop heliport
- ≈ 1,700 people in 4 buildings
The cooling tower and the glass façade
Gregotti Associati boxed the 1950 cooling tower inside a 10-storey, 50 × 50 m cube, with a 1,800 m² glass wall on the fourth side.
The office blocks
The HQ's stone-clad façades cover 13,000 m², and about 1,700 people work across its four buildings.
Facts: corporate.pirelli.com “Pirelli Headquarters” · Focchi project page “Pirelli Headquarters” (Gregotti Associati project text). Photos are shown with credit to the photographers and façade maker; we remove any photo on request.
The Bicocca headquarters
| Building | Address |
|---|---|
| Headquarters (HQ building) | Viale Piero e Alberto Pirelli 25, 20126 Milan |
| Bicocca degli Arcimboldi (reception) | Via Bicocca degli Arcimboldi 3, 20126 Milan |
| Fondazione Pirelli | Viale Sarca 220, 20126 Milan |
Source: corporate.pirelli.com “Contact us” · fondazionepirelli.org contacts. The HQ also includes the Diablo Rosso, P Zero and Innovation buildings. · See them on the map ↓
Source: corporate.pirelli.com “Pirelli Headquarters” · Focchi project page “Pirelli Headquarters”
Benefits (global minimums under the MORE programme)
Fully paid in every Pirelli industrial country since 2023, whatever local law says.
Fully paid leave in at least half of Pirelli's countries, covering most employees.
At least 10 days of fully paid leave everywhere; 14 or more days in at least half of the countries.
A payment towards the extra costs of each baby born or adopted.
A healthcare programme with costs partly covered by a health fund or insurance.
A guaranteed payment to the employee's family in the event of death.
Bicocca Nursery and Infant School, opened in 2005 with the University of Milano-Bicocca; employees' children can attend.
Employees are encouraged to spend at least half a day a year in the Corporate Volunteering Programme.
Source: pirelli.com “MORE wellbeing at the heart of Pirelli” (Jan 23, 2025) · “Bicocca Nursery and Infant School: the child at the centre” · corporate.pirelli.com People Care
Why people stay: what Pirelli itself describes
A global programme launched in 2024 sets minimum standards for you, your family and your community; the goal is to cover all employees by the end of 2026.
Pirelli says it runs its wellbeing work across these four dimensions.
Pirelli was among the first companies to invest in schools and holiday colonies for children and in paid holidays.
In countries with a Pirelli plant, the company supports a nearby secondary school with technical training.
Fondazione Pirelli keeps the historical archive, a library and a reading room at the headquarters, open to the public by appointment.
Source: pirelli.com “MORE wellbeing at the heart of Pirelli” (2025) and “Corporate wellbeing: being well to work well” (Nov 2025) · corporate.pirelli.com Pirelli Headquarters · fondazionepirelli.org
Who works here
employees (2025)
work at the Milan headquarters
production plants in 12 countries
countries with a commercial presence
Source: corporate.pirelli.com “Pirelli in brief” (2025 figures) and “Pirelli Headquarters”
Office history: from a field outside Milan to a cooling tower
- 1872 Via Ponte Seveso — the first factory
G.B. Pirelli & C. was founded on January 28, 1872, with its seat in Corpi Santi di Milano. The first factory, on Via Ponte Seveso (today Via Fabio Filzi), covered 1,000 m² in open countryside, with offices on the left and the plant on the right; production began in June 1873 with 40 workers and 5 clerks.
Source: Fondazione Pirelli, “Of uncommon size and robust elegance” (2022) · corporate.pirelli.com History
First factory, Via Ponte Seveso, c. 1920 · Credito Italiano / Public domain · Wikimedia Commons - 1908 Bicocca — a second, much larger site
By 1900 the Ponte Seveso factory had filled every corner while the city grew around it. Pirelli bought land near the Bicocca, and building started in 1908 on the site that would shape north Milan.
Source: Fondazione Pirelli, “Bicocca once upon a time” and “Of uncommon size and robust elegance”
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - 1918 The Bicocca degli Arcimboldi villa
The 15th-century country house of the Arcimboldi family became Pirelli property in 1918. For more than sixty years it has been the Group's official reception venue, and it is part of the headquarters today.
Source: corporate.pirelli.com Pirelli Headquarters
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - 1960 The Pirelli Tower by Gio Ponti
Alberto and Piero Pirelli laid the first stone on July 12, 1956; the tower opened on April 4, 1960, in the area of the first Pirelli factory near Milan Central Station. Gio Ponti designed it, with foundations by Pier Luigi Nervi.
Source: Fondazione Pirelli, “Sixty years of the Pirelli Tower” (2020) · corporate.pirelli.com Pirelli Headquarters
Pirelli Tower, Piazza Duca d'Aosta, 1959 · Albertomos / Public domain · Wikimedia Commons - 1978 The tower passes to the Lombardy Region
From 1978 the Pirelli Tower became the seat of the Lombardy Region; since the mid-2000s it has housed the regional council.
Source: Regione Lombardia, “Storie del Grattacielo”
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - 1988 The Bicocca redevelopment
Gregotti Associati won the international competition for the Pirelli-Bicocca plan, which included a new technology centre for Pirelli. Leopoldo Pirelli called it a move from factories that made products to factories that produce ideas.
Source: corporate.pirelli.com Pirelli Headquarters
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - 2004 Headquarters in the cooling tower
The new head office, completed in 2004, keeps the 1950 cooling tower inside a 10-storey cube. Today about 1,700 people work in its four buildings: HQ, Diablo Rosso, P Zero and Innovation.
Source: Focchi project page · corporate.pirelli.com Pirelli Headquarters
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it.
Map: how the headquarters moved
Pirelli has never left Milan. It started on Via Ponte Seveso near today's Central Station, moved its factories north to Bicocca from 1908, built the Pirelli Tower on the first factory's area in 1960, and now works from the old Bicocca factory's cooling tower.
- 1 · 1872Via Ponte Seveso (now Via Fabio Filzi) — The first Pirelli factory and offices
- 2 · 1908Bicocca — The second, much larger factory site
- 3 · 1960Pirelli Tower, Piazza Duca d'Aosta — Gio Ponti's skyscraper on the first factory's area
- 4 · 2004Viale Piero e Alberto Pirelli 25 — Today's headquarters around the 1950 cooling tower
Addresses: Fondazione Pirelli · corporate.pirelli.com (History, Pirelli Headquarters, Contact us)
What Pirelli does
Pirelli started in 1872 making elastic rubber goods in Milan, added cables in 1879 and car tyres in 1901. Today it is a tyre maker entirely focused on the Consumer market — tyres for cars, motorcycles and bicycles — and above all on High Value tyres. It has supplied every Formula 1 team since 2011.
One business: Consumer tyres (car, moto and cycling). The industrial tyre business was separated in 2017.
Where the money came from · Share of sales, 2025
Source: corporate.pirelli.com “Pirelli in brief” · Preliminary results release, Feb 25, 2026 (High Value 79% of 2025 sales vs 76% in 2024)
Source: Pirelli preliminary results release, Feb 25, 2026 · corporate.pirelli.com “Pirelli in brief”
Growth: revenue vs. people
€4.3B → €6.8B
Revenue: Pirelli preliminary results releases for 2020, 2021, 2022, 2024 and 2025 (press.pirelli.com; 2023 figure as restated in the 2024 release). Employees: corporate.pirelli.com “Pirelli in brief” (2025). Multiple calculated by eciffo.
Chief executives
Chief Executive Officer since August 2023. Joined Pirelli Tyre in 2002 as a production planner and rose through logistics, marketing, Asia-Pacific sales and operations. Marco Tronchetti Provera is Executive Chairman.
Founder: Giovanni Battista Pirelli (1872).
Source: corporate.pirelli.com (Andrea Casaluci profile · Board of Directors composition, appointed June 25, 2026 · History)
Pirelli: questions people ask
Where is Pirelli's headquarters?
In the Bicocca district of north Milan, at Viale Piero e Alberto Pirelli 25; the reception is at Via Bicocca degli Arcimboldi 3.
Source: corporate.pirelli.com Contact us
Who designed Pirelli's headquarters?
Gregotti Associati, who won the international competition for the Pirelli-Bicocca plan in 1988. The building was completed in 2004; Focchi made its façades.
Source: corporate.pirelli.com Pirelli Headquarters · Focchi project page
Why is there a cooling tower inside Pirelli's headquarters?
The tower belonged to the power plant Pirelli built at its Bicocca factory in 1950. The new head office was built around it: the 46 m tower now holds an auditorium on the ground floor and meeting rooms above, linked to the offices by aerial walkways, with a heliport on the roof.
Source: corporate.pirelli.com Pirelli Headquarters
How big is Pirelli's headquarters?
The HQ building is a 10-storey, 50 × 50 m cube with an 1,800 m² glass façade. About 1,700 people work in the four headquarters buildings: HQ, Diablo Rosso, P Zero and Innovation.
Source: corporate.pirelli.com Pirelli Headquarters
Is the Pirelli Tower still Pirelli's headquarters?
No. Gio Ponti's Pirelli Tower opened in 1960 as Pirelli's building; from 1978 it became the seat of the Lombardy Region, and the regional council has used it since the mid-2000s.
Source: Fondazione Pirelli · Regione Lombardia
Can you visit Pirelli's headquarters?
Fondazione Pirelli, at Viale Sarca 220 within the headquarters area, is open to the public by appointment, with the historical archive, a library and exhibitions. Pirelli HangarBicocca, the contemporary art space Pirelli runs nearby, is a separate public venue.
Source: fondazionepirelli.org · corporate.pirelli.com Pirelli Headquarters
What parental leave does Pirelli offer?
Since 2023 every Pirelli industrial country gives at least 14 weeks of fully paid maternity leave and at least 10 days for fathers or second parents; in at least half of its countries it is 18+ weeks and 14+ days. Pirelli also pays a newborn bonus for each child born or adopted.
Source: pirelli.com “MORE wellbeing at the heart of Pirelli”
What is Pirelli's MORE programme?
A global welfare programme launched in 2024 that sets minimum standards in every country: health care, life cover, parental leave, a newborn bonus, corporate volunteering and support for schools near plants. Pirelli aims to cover all employees by the end of 2026.
Source: pirelli.com “MORE wellbeing at the heart of Pirelli” · corporate.pirelli.com People Care
How many people work at Pirelli?
About 29,680 employees in 2025, with 18 production plants in 12 countries.
Source: corporate.pirelli.com Pirelli in brief
Who is Pirelli's CEO?
Andrea Casaluci, Chief Executive Officer since August 2023. Marco Tronchetti Provera is Executive Chairman.
Source: corporate.pirelli.com Board of Directors and Casaluci profile
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