The Interbank Building is a building located in the neighbourhood of Santa Catalina, La Victoria District, Lima. It serves as the main headquarters of Interbank, a Peruvian financial entity and was inaugurated in February 2001. It is located at the intersection of Luis Bedoya Reyes and Javier Prado Este avenues. It has a total construction area of 45,300 m2 and a maximum height of 88 metres.[2][3]
| Interbank Building | |
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 The building at night | |
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| General information | |
| Address | Carlos Villarán 140 |
| Year(s) built | 1996–2001 |
| Inaugurated | February 2001 |
| Cost | US$ 40,948,900 |
| Owner | Intercorp |
| Height | 88 m |
| Technical details | |
| Floor count | 20 |
| Floor area | 43,500 m² |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect(s) | Hans Hollein[1] |
| Structural engineer | Carlos Casabonne Rasselet |
| Services engineer | José Tavera |
| Main contractor | Cosapi |
History
editThe building's predecessor was located at the Plazoleta de la Merced in the Jirón de la Unión.[4]
The construction was in charge of the Peruvian company Cosapi S.A. and the design by the Austrian architect Hans Hollein. This marked the end of a period of inactivity for the architect since the 1980s. This building was inaugurated at the same time as the Media Tower in Vienna. Both projects were designed in parallel.[5] The construction period was between 1996 and 2000.[6] The building was inaugurated in 2001.[7]
Overview
editThe building consists of two distinct and interlinked blocks. The first of them is the tower (Tower A) and the second (Tower B) is the six-story rectangular building with white glass exterior walls where offices and the cafeteria are located. An appendage protrudes from this block from the fourth floor. Tower A is slightly inclined, adopting the figure of a "sail in the wind" whose front is reinforced by a titanium mesh that serves both as decoration (it has a set of lights that change from the color of the institution to the characteristic colors of some special festivity) as protection from sunlight. The tower has 20 floors and reaches a maximum height of 88 metres topped with a helipad.[5]
The inclination of the tower not only has an aesthetic function but also an anti-seismic one developed by the specialist Carlos Casabonne Rasselet.[5] In the same way, the plinth facing the street has been made with volcanic stone from the Andes, according to ancient tradition of the Inca architecture of Peru.[5]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Cordero, Jaime (2016-10-16). "El insaciable apetito de Intercorp". El País.
- ^ "Torre Interbank". Bticino. Archived from the original on 2007-07-05.
- ^ "Edificio Interbank". Legrand.
- ^ Córdova Tábori, Lili (2013-12-04). "Edificios transformados con el tiempo: De Banco Wiese a supermercado". El Comercio.
- ^ a b c d Rocha, Silvério. "Hans Hollein: Edifício do Interbank, Lima, Peru". Arcoweb. Archived from the original on 2007-08-09.
- ^ "TORRE INTERBANK, LIMA, PERÚ, 1996-2001". Artium Museum.
- ^ "Nosotros". Interbank.