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								  |  | Banca del Gottardo - Sede centrale 
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                                    | reinforced concrete, brick, stone   |  |   
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								  |   Lugano  |  |  
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								    								  Viale Stefano Franscini 8, CH-6901 Lugano 
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| ARCHITECTURE  |  | Buildings for cultural activities Art galleries and exhibition areas Commercial buildings Banks, securities exchanges and buildings for financial activity Bars, cafeterias Restaurants |  |   
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        | BIBILIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES |  |  |  |  |  |   
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                                    | Mercedes Daguerre, Graziella Zannone Milan, Architetture nel territorio. Architektur im Gelände, Architecture in the territory, Architectures dans le territoire. Canton Ticino 1970-2000 [CD-ROM], Tarmac sa, Mendrisio 2001 |  
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                                    | Mercedes Daguerre, Birkhäuser Architectural Guide Switzerland 20th Century, Birkhäuser, Basel 1997, p. 353 |  
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                                    | Mario Botta, Etica del costruire, Editori Laterza, Bari 1996, pp. 87-91 |  
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                                    | Sergio Polano, "Mario Botta. Banca del Gottardo, Lugano", Domus 704, aprile/april 1989, pp. 36-45 |  
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                                    | Paolo Fumagalli, "Vier Turme fur eine Stadt/Four towers for a town",  Werk, Bauen & Wohnen vol. 75/42 n. 11, november 1988, pp. 4-11, 69-70 |  
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                                    | Benedetto Gravagnuolo (ed.), Mario Botta. Studi preliminari per la Banca del Gottardo a Lugano, Edizioni A. Salvioni & Co., Bellinzona 1988 |  |  
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                                    | site sq.m. 8.877 gross building sq.m. 14.200
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                                    | m/3 114.130 m/3 62.140 aboveground
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                                    | Mauro Pedretti, Giuseppe Grignoli, Argentino Jermini, Gualtiero Medici |  |   
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                                    | Maurizio Pelli, Paolo Merzaghi, Daniele Eisenhut, Massimo Moreni, Riccardo Blumer, Marco D'Azzo, Claudio Lo Riso, Carlos Heras, Marco Bonini |  |  
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                                    | Sergio Rusconi, Cometta e Semini, Visani e Talleri |  |  
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                                    | Roberto Piona, Dante Soicà |  |  
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