Palazzo Lombardia ("Lombardy Palace") is a complex of buildings in

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, including a 43-

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, tall

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.
It is the main seat of the Lombardy regional government, located in the

Centro Direzionale di Milano The Centro Direzionale di Milano is a business district (''quartiere'') in Milan, Italy, part of the Zone 9 administrative division. It is located north-west of the city centre, between the major railway stations of Milano Centrale and Milano Por ...

(CBD, Central Business District), north-west of the city centre. It was first inaugurated on 22 January 2010, and officially completed on 21 March 2010. After its completion, the Regione Lombardia skyscraper was briefly the tallest skyscraper both in Milan and in Italy, being taller than both the Telecom Italia Tower in

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and the

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in Milan. It lost its supremacy to the Unicredit Tower (also located in Milan) in 2011. Palazzo Lombardia was designed by the architectural firm

Pei Cobb Freed & Partners Pei Cobb Freed & Partners is an American architectural firm based in New York City, founded in 1955 by I. M. Pei and other associates.

, winner of an international

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in 2004, with

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as design partner. The building won the 2012 International Architecture Award for the best new global design.

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File:Regionelombardia.jpg, The entrance to the building. File:Piazza Palazzo Lombardia.jpg, ''Città di Lombardia'' square. File:Palazzolombardiagaeaulenti.jpg, Palazzo Lombardia seen from ''Gae Aulenti'' square.

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Winner: "2012 Best Tall Building Europe"

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