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.