UniCredit Tower is a 33-story office tower at Piazza Gae Aulenti in the Porta Nuova district of Milan, Italy, near Porta Garibaldi station. César Pelli designed it with Pelli Clarke Pelli, and Adamson Associates Architects was the executive architect. Hines Italia developed it, and it is the headquarters of UniCredit, Italy's largest bank by assets.
Construction began in 2009. The tower reached its full height of 781 feet (238 m) on October 15, 2011, when its spire was installed, and it opened in 2012. The roof is at 518 feet (158 m), and the spire is about 264 feet (80.5 m) tall. It is the tallest of the three towers in its complex.
The spire is fully covered in LED lighting, and the colors change for events. The building has 287,480 square feet (26,708 m²) of floor area and ranked eighth in the Emporis Skyscraper Award 2012.
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