The new Z.I.P. Research Tower is a great field that reaches out  towards the sky.

It is the material sign stating that in the place of sheds and industrial areas within the ZIP, a new generation of productive activity is being born. Men and women that produce ideas and services, that invent high-technology prototypes, that commercialize non-material, high quality goods in the global market.

The new Z.I.P. Research Tower is a wave of landscape.

It is a movement of the ground that results in an emergence in the territory. The rising of a horizontal platform that hosts, under its green covering, the CNR laboratories turning then into a tall blade of offices and lighter laboratories. A vertical monument of innovation that looks to the north with a large transparent façade and protects itself towards the south with a green façade contributing to reduce energy consumption.

The new ZIP Research Tower is a lighthouse in the Padan Plain.

It is a landmark along the Turin-Venice axis. The last of a series of iconic buildings that accompany the stretch of the highway that crosses the plain, providing a rhythm to perception on the go: the great exhibition sail of Rho, the red drape between Bergamo and the Adda, the chromed chimney of the incinerator in Brescia: a sequence of large contemporary icons acting as an introduction to the landscapes of the Laguna and its island-city.