Lingotto plant

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The Lingotto plant is a historic former Fiat automobile factory in Turin, Italy, renowned for its innovative multi-story design and rooftop test track.

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instanceOf automobile factory
industrial building
modernist architecture
architect Giacomo Mattè-Trucco NERFINISHED
architecturalStyle Modernist
Rationalist architecture
city Turin NERFINISHED
constructionEnd 1923
constructionStart 1916
coordinateLocation 45.035°N 7.661°E
country Italy
currentUse conference center
exhibition space
hotel complex
shopping mall
university facilities
designedBy Giacomo Mattè-Trucco NERFINISHED
floorArea approximately 150000 square metres
formerUse Fiat production facility
automobile assembly plant
hasPart central courtyard
rooftop test track
spiral ramps
height about 24 metres
heritageStatus industrial heritage site
inception 1916
industrialUseEnd 1982
inspired later multi-story car factories
locatedIn Italy
Piedmont NERFINISHED
Turin NERFINISHED
materialUsed reinforced concrete
mentionedIn Le Corbusier writings
notableFeature Fiat exhibition spaces
helicoidal ramps for cars
rooftop oval test track
numberOfFloors 5
openingDate 1923
operator Fiat NERFINISHED
ownedBy Fiat NERFINISHED
partOf Lingotto district NERFINISHED
redevelopedBy Renzo Piano NERFINISHED
redevelopmentEnd 1990s
redevelopmentStart 1980s
transportConnection Lingotto railway station NERFINISHED
Turin Metro Lingotto station NERFINISHED

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Fiat hasMainManufacturingFacility Lingotto plant