Conference Centre

Fondazione Invernizzi has taken up the great legacy of its founders in trying to become a place for scientific and cultural dissemination and meetings. A Conference Centre has therefore been built to host meetings, seminars, debates, exhibitions and presentations to foster and stimulate reflection on studies and research and the exchange of information between individuals and organisations involved in the international cultural and scientific debate.

The Conference Centre of Palazzo Invernizzi was completed in 2024, after two years of redevelopment work that turned the basement of the building into a multifunctional, versatile and modular space that can host different types of initiatives.
To those who need a comfortable, reserved and functional environment in the centre of Milan, the Conference Centre offers spaces equipped with every comfort and modern technologies for any types of event.

Designed by the Milan-based firm G A Architetti Associati, the project has sought to strike the right balance between the respect and conservation of ground floor rooms, characterised by the taste of the Invernizzi couple, who inhabited them, and the innovation of the rooms on the basement floor, which were restored to their original spatial distribution and adapted to new uses through contemporary fittings.
The dialogue between what pre-existed and what is new is entrusted to the connecting elements between the two levels: the new wooden stairs, contiguous with the existing stairs, and the new glazed lifts that overlap the architectural parties of the Palace without ever obstructing the view.
The new materials - glass, steel, resin, wood, backlit Barrisol - stand out for their lightness, materiality and decorative effect. The memory of the love that bound the Invernizzi couple to nature is evoked by the use of wood panelling obtained from the combination of different, entirely recycled wood types that recall an abstract forest of endless tree species.

In the Sala Indaco (Indigo Hall), the former cinema hall of the Invernizzi couple, artist Roberto Rizzo has set up an environmental installation titled "Camera della visione" (Room of vision).
A sky ideally opening on the ceiling of the hall towards the city, the artistic intervention has a structural and aesthetic development that stems from its functional purpose (light up and improve the room acoustics) and speaks with the history of Italian art: with the pictorial decorations on the ceilings of churches, palaces, historical theatres and - at the same time - with the ceilings by Lucio Fontana, with James Turrel’s Skyspace, with Dan Flavin's installation in Santa Maria in Chiesa Rossa in Milan.