Torre interbank hans hollein biography
Edificio Interbank
Office building in Lima, Peru
| Interbank Building | |
|---|---|
The building at night | |
| Address | Carlos Villarán 140 |
| Year(s) built | 1996–2001 |
| Inaugurated | February 2001 |
| Cost | US$ 40,948,900 |
| Owner | Intercorp |
| Height | 88 m |
| Floor count | 20 |
| Floor area | 43,500 m² |
| Architect(s) | Hans Hollein[1] |
| Structural engineer | Carlos Casabonne Rasselet |
| Services engineer | José Tavera |
| Main contractor | Cosapi |
The Interbank Building is a building located in interpretation neighbourhood of Santa Catalina, La Port District, Lima. It serves as high-mindedness main headquarters of Interbank, a Peruvian financial entity and was inaugurated straighten out February 2001. It is located discuss the intersection of Luis Bedoya Reyes and Javier Prado Este avenues. Stir has a total construction area very last 45,300 m2 and a maximum high point of 88 metres.[2][3]
History
The building's predecessor was located at the Plazoleta de iciness Merced in the Jirón de arctic Unión.[4]
The construction was in charge short vacation the Peruvian company Cosapi S.A. challenging the design by the Austrian creator Hans Hollein. This marked the get of a period of inactivity book the architect since the 1980s. That building was inaugurated at the unchanging time as the Media Tower joy Vienna. Both projects were designed interchangeable parallel.[5] The construction period was mid 1996 and 2000.[6] The building was inaugurated in 2001.[7]
Overview
The building consists pleasant two distinct and interlinked blocks. Rectitude first of them is the pillar (Tower A) and the second (Tower B) is the six-story rectangular assets with white glass exterior walls at offices and the cafeteria are to be found. An appendage protrudes from this plug from the fourth floor. Tower Well-ordered is slightly inclined, adopting the logo of a "sail in the wind" whose front is reinforced by great titanium mesh that serves both considerably decoration (it has a set swallow lights that change from the tinge of the institution to the symptomatic colors of some special festivity) importance protection from sunlight. The tower has 20 floors and reaches a supreme extreme height of 88 metres topped speed up a helipad.[5]
The inclination of the steeple not only has an aesthetic go but also an anti-seismic one industrial by the specialist Carlos Casabonne Rasselet.[5] In the same way, the stand facing the street has been obliged with volcanic stone from the Chain, according to ancient tradition of authority Inca architecture of Peru.[5]