Matitone

The Matitone (a popular nickname meaning literally "big pencil", officially San Benigno North Tower) is a skyscraper designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, Mario Lanata and Andrea Messina and finished building in 1992, used as a business center located in the district of San Teodoro, in the San Benigno neighborhood, near the Genova-West highway.

Activities based in the Matitone
The Matitone is home to several administrative offices including:
 * Municipality of Genoa, Services Private Building and Urban Development.

Other information

 * In 2006 it was used for filming the video for the song Cosa vuoi che sia by Ligabue.
 * In Savona there is a smaller, similar building that was named Matitino in honor of his older peer in Genoa.