A building of fifteen thousand cubic meters which resembles a stone embroidery woven into full and empty spaces, light and shade, of mirror-like images and apparent asymmetries which refer to solutions of a faraway space. The headquarters of the Cassa Rurale ed Artigiana dell'Alta Brianza represents a successful attempt to draw a new dimension, obedient only to an internally rigorous consistency which is not immediately perceivable, but which intrigues before it fascinates.

The restoration and renovation of the branch in Via Plinio of the Banca Commerciale Italiana is an interesting example of how it is possible to adapt a building of great prestige to new needs, while maintaining its characteristics and charm and organizing the internal spaces - already formerly the seat of the same banking company - as an activity that has grown both in terms of size and quality. The main problem that arose was that of preserving the building complex, which is an important presence in the historical centre, not only for the external aspect but also for the internal coherence combining the renewal of the old environments with the realization of new spaces. The result, obtained over three and a half years of carefully planned interventions to allow the simultaneous continuation of the bank's activity, was a fusion of elements that enhance the prestigious pre-existent architecture.

Careful use of the spaces, which were not particularly large, allowed a satisfactory solution of the renovation of a portion of the building between Via Sant'Elia and Via Recchi, in Como, of the branch of the Banca d'America e d'Italia. While respecting the exterior of this type of building, particular care was dedicated to the organization of the interior environments.

Located on the outskirts of the town, in an area where reference is concentrated more on the green areas of the countryside rather than on neighbouring buildings, the building of the Banca Briantea in Bregnano tends to the maximum level of harmonization with the surrounding environment. The building is slightly back and raised from the road front, from which it is separated by an embankment occupied by a wide green belt, which is crossed in the centre by a large staircase with a slightly sloping ramp at the side that eliminates the architectural barrier created by the steps.

Glass, steel and light are the protagonists of a functional reorganization of a portion of the building in Viale Innocenzo XI in Como, where a space that was once occupied by shops was transformed into a banking company, with an intervention that was far from easy. The headquarters of the Banca Briantea is articulated over approximately 1700 square meters of surface, spread over three floors of which one on the ground and two underground, with a development that is exactly the opposite of the traditional one that has the offices above and not below the hall with the desks. In this case, the conditioning of the existing building gave rise to an appreciable originality of building solutions, which nevertheless gave the bank a precise and coherent physiognomy. The first problem to be addressed was to create a façade capable on one side to fit without traumatic ruptures in a building already endowed with its own characteristics and the other to give it a specific individuality. The choice was to "open" from the inside to the outside with a series of large square-shaped glazed surfaces with bevelled corners, framed by large stainless steel strips, essentially creating a sort of immediate permeability between the Bank and the external environment, particularly "vibrant" and popular due to the centrality of the area and the presence of a car park.

Among the work carried out on the premises of banking companies, that conducted between March 1978 and September 1981 on the Como branch of the Banca d'Italia assumes very particular characteristics. A complex and delicate intervention for more than one understandable reason, which concerned both the external aspect of the massive construction - with the restoration of the façades - and the interior with the renovation of the doors, some restructuring of environments, the air conditioning system and above all important reinforced concrete works that have increased the security features of the vault area, adapting them to the current requirements, the consolidation of the stonework of the façade has given freshness to a severe and closed building.

The red frames around the windows are the first external sign that something has changed for the old corner building between Viale Cavallotti and Via Sant'Elia, in Como.
Approaching, the articulation of the flowerbeds, the entrance staircase to the raised ground floor, among other particular details of a construction which has however remained intact in its essential lines a restructuring intervention is revealed which is among the most significant of those conducted in the city. A rigorous division between the old and the new, as elsewhere, was not sought after: the external lines were maintained, a radical reconstruction of the interiors was carried out to adapt its characteristics to the new function of headquarters of the Banca Popolare di Lecco.

A remarkable originality of the project distinguishes the building in Erba designated for use as the headquarters of the branch of the Banco Lariano and its offices. The construction is clearly divided into two blocks, the lower occupied by the hall of the bank and the upper, made up of two floors, intended for offices, part of which belong to the same banking company. The connecting elements of the two blocks are two large cylinders, containers for lifts and stairs, which sweep the marked horizontality of the building. Between the lower and upper blocks, an open space was obtained, which can be reached by a ramp that wraps around the outermost of the two "organ pipes". On the façade, the projecting roof of the ground floor supports a narrow green border and bushy plants.

The building in the centre of Merate hosts the headquarters of the Banco Lariano and a series of offices, which are noted for their harmonious and non-traumatic insertion in a context with peculiar characteristics. In an area, which includes gardens and parking spaces, partly for public use, two buildings of different heights form an "L" shape, in the corner of which we can find the quadrangular volume of the hall with the desks of the bank.

Located in a barycentric position with respect to the main links, the Management Centre of the Banco Lariano is a complex of two and three-storey buildings above ground, located in an area of over thirty thousand square meters in the flat area of Prato Pagano.
The building to the south, with a height limit of two floors above ground, includes the areas intended for the management, which overlook a roof garden created on the roof of the underlying auditorium. In addition to the offices, areas designed as small meeting rooms, the boardroom and the executive dining room are particularly refined, all furnished with considerable but sober elegance, according to the instructions of the technical office of the same banking company. Designed to accommodate a thousand employees, it is spread over approximately 135,000 cubic meters of volume, with a modular but articulated design that finds its reference point in the entrance hall, which also serves as a distribution element. The large three-storey building to the north is reserved for the offices, it has a square grid-type structure, which creates large light wells on the inside, which, through continuous strip windows, light up the rooms, designed to guarantee maximum functionality. The basement, in addition to giving space to a series of services, represents a link between the inside and the outside of the building complex as far as the handling of materials is concerned, which therefore does not interfere in any way with the passage of staff on other levels. A centre of this kind, evidently thought out in a dimension of considerable self-sufficiency, can obviously not do without a series of supports. Within the complex, there are, therefore, in addition to the three vaults and a data processing centre, an infirmary, auditorium, pneumatic mail service, a press centre, a canteen and an archive. Of particular interest is the auditorium, which has 220 seats, and the canteen for the staff, a remarkably luminous environment due to the realization of a long wall made entirely of glass bricks. It is important to note that in a complex of these dimensions, the fact that a series of original design solutions allow the use of a kind of modularity that does not degenerate but ends up giving seemingly unrelated and distant elements a perceptible formal coherence.