For Park Associati mix of public and private clients with projects abroad

Park Associati, co-founded in 2000 by Filippo Pagliani and Michele Rossi, is among the protagonists, in the world of architecture, of Growth Leaders 2025, the ranking of Sole 24 Ore and Statista. The company has just won the National Council of Architects' award as 'Italian Architect of the Year'. An excellence that has established itself thanks to the dynamism of the Milanese market, the growth of skills within the staff, the mix of public and private clients, without neglecting project opportunities abroad, from Monte Carlo to Paris. "Our studio,' says Michele Rossi, 'grew until a few years ago only thanks to private commissions, investment funds, developers and companies. And it has grown by increasing the number of clients over the years and working hard on their loyalty. In the last three years, public commissions have been added thanks to the awarding of several competitions such as the Polo Archivistico Lombardo in Pavia and Palazzo Sistema in Milan, on behalf of Aria/Regione Lombardia. The Lombardy capital and its recent boom have certainly favoured growth for the firm.

"On the one hand, it gave us the opportunity to work on new buildings for large companies such as Accenture, Nestlè and Luxottica," continues Rossi, "and on the other to work on the regeneration of the building heritage, especially post-war buildings, which had become inadequate from an energy and functional point of view. Immediately rejecting the idea of the 'demiurge' architect, Pagliani and Rossi set up a company characterised by a multidisciplinary and collaborative approach. "We tried to minimise the turnover that is traditionally present in Italian design studios, and growth was very gradual until 2016, where in the course of a year," the partners recount, "we went from 25 to 50 collaborators. We went through another five years of slow and gradual growth until we reached another moment of sudden growth in 2021, which brought us to the current group of a hundred people'. Two peaks managed thanks to a consolidated group, with employees who know the project method and who share the team's management approach. "Growth,'' Rossi comments, "is not easily programmable for us because even now almost all the jobs come through competitions or tenders: doing an average of 20 a year, you depend a lot on the success rate.