Credit: DoubleTree by Hilton Turin LingottoJust over a decade ago, Piano designed the hotel that is now the DoubleTree by Hilton Turin Lingotto. In the annals of industrial history, Turin's 1915 Lingotto building is legendary as the former Fiat factory, and remains a shrine to the automobile. The hotel is not only next to, but mimics, the super-long, 800,000-square-foot Lingotto factory in the formerly industrial district of the same name. DoubleTree rooms are essentially built around a towering atrium, whose glass elevator shaft suggests the kind of lift that would have hauled equipment in the old factory days. The Lingotto factory now houses a mall and businesses.

Source: Forbes May 21, 2018 13:52 UTC