[1] Considered one of Niemeyer's most important works in Europe,[2] the building features his characteristically curved, sculptural forms and represents an evolution of ideas first explored in the Itamaraty Palace, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs headquarters located in Brasilia.

[3] The Mondadori Palace is acclaimed for its structural audacity and monumental presence, with a cantilevered glass office block suspended under gigantic parabolic arches of raw concrete.

[1] At the time, Mondadori was seeking to construct a new headquarters building as the company had grown substantially during Italy's post-war economic boom, increasing its number of employees from 335 to 3,000 between 1950 and 1965.

[2] Construction started in 1970 on a 36 hectare site in Segrate near the Milan airport, on land sold to insurance company Assicurazioni Generali who leased it back to Mondadori.

[7] The Mondadori Palace consists of three main elements emerging from an artificial lake designed by landscape architect Pietro Porcinai - a long five-story glass box containing the offices and newsrooms suspended under sweeping concrete arches, and two smaller curved ancillary structures with more organic shapes.

Rather than sitting directly on the ground, in the Mondadori Palace the 38m wide x 200m long glass box is fully suspended from the arches above, housing flexible open plan office space and floating 13m above the water.