Interbank Building
The building at night
General information
AddressCarlos Villarán 140
Year(s) built1996–2001
InauguratedFebruary 2001
CostUS$ 40,948,900
OwnerIntercorp
Height88 m
Technical details
Floor count20
Floor area43,500 m²
Design and construction
Architect(s)Hans Hollein
Structural engineerCarlos Casabonne Rasselet
Services engineerJosé Tavera
Main contractorCosapi

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.[1][2]

History

The building's predecessor was located at the Plazoleta de la Merced in the Jirón de la Unión.[3]

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.[4] The construction period was between 1996 and 2000.[5] The building was inaugurated in 2001.[6]

Overview

The 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.[4]

The inclination of the tower not only has an aesthetic function but also an anti-seismic one developed by the specialist Carlos Casabonne Rasselet.[4] 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.[4]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Torre Interbank". Bticino. Archived from the original on 2007-07-05.
  2. ↑ "Edificio Interbank". Legrand.
  3. ↑ Córdova Tábori, Lili (2013-12-04). "Edificios transformados con el tiempo: De Banco Wiese a supermercado". El Comercio.
  4. 1 2 3 4 Rocha, Silvério. "Hans Hollein: Edifício do Interbank, Lima, Peru". Arcoweb. Archived from the original on 2007-08-09.
  5. ↑ "TORRE INTERBANK, LIMA, PERÚ, 1996-2001". Artium Museum.
  6. ↑ "Nosotros". Interbank.

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