{{Short description|Office building in Lima, Peru}} {{Infobox building | name = Interbank Building | image = Torre de noche.jpg | image_caption = The building at night | architectural_style = | address = Carlos Villarán 140 | years_built = 1996–2001 | inauguration_date = {{dts|2001|2}} | cost = [[US$]] 40,948,900 | owner = [[Intercorp]] | height = 88 [[Metre|m]] | material = | size = | floor_count = 20 | floor_area = 43,500 [[Square metre|m²]] | architect = [[Hans Hollein]]<ref>{{Cite news |title=El insaciable apetito de Intercorp |url=https://elpais.com/economia/2016/10/13/actualidad/1476355608_803281.html |last=Cordero |first=Jaime |date=2016-10-16 |work=[[El País]]}}</ref> | structural_engineer = Carlos Casabonne Rasselet | services_engineer = José Tavera | main_contractor = Cosapi | parking = | public_transit = | website = <!-- {{URL|example.com}} --> | references = | footnotes = }} The '''Interbank Building''' is a building located in the neighbourhood of [[Santa Catalina, Lima|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 [[Vía Expresa Luis Fernán Bedoya Reyes|Luis Bedoya Reyes]] and [[Avenida Javier Prado|Javier Prado Este]] avenues. It has a total construction area of 45,300 [[Square metre|m<sup>2</sup>]] and a maximum height of 88 [[metre]]s.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.bticino.com.pe/1/p_interbank.htm |title=Torre Interbank |website=[[Bticino]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070705105821/http://www.bticino.com.pe/1/p_interbank.htm |archive-date=2007-07-05}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://legrand.com.pe/proyecto/edificio-interbank/ |title=Edificio Interbank |website=[[Legrand (company)|Legrand]]}}</ref>
==History== The building's predecessor was located at the [[Plazoleta de la Merced]] in the [[Jirón de la Unión]].<ref>{{Cite news |title=Edificios transformados con el tiempo: De Banco Wiese a supermercado |url=https://elcomercio.pe/blog/huellasdigitales/2013/12/edificios-transformados-con-el-tiempo/ |last=Córdova Tábori |first=Lili |date=2013-12-04 |work=[[El Comercio (Peru)|El Comercio]]}}</ref>
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.<ref name=Arcoweb>{{Cite web |url=http://www.arcoweb.com.br/arquitetura/arquitetura372.asp |title=Hans Hollein: Edifício do Interbank, Lima, Peru |last=Rocha |first=Silvério |website=Arcoweb |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070809211644/http://www.arcoweb.com.br/arquitetura/arquitetura372.asp |archive-date=2007-08-09}}</ref> The construction period was between 1996 and 2000.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://catalogo.artium.eus/dossieres/exposiciones/premios-pritzker-viaje-por-la-arquitectura-contemporanea/torre-interbank-lima |title=TORRE INTERBANK, LIMA, PERÚ, 1996-2001 |website=[[Artium Museum]]}}</ref> The building was inaugurated in 2001.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://interbank.pe/nosotros |title=Nosotros |website=[[Interbank]]}}</ref>
==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.<ref name=Arcoweb/>
The inclination of the tower not only has an aesthetic function but also an anti-seismic one developed by the specialist Carlos Casabonne Rasselet.<ref name=Arcoweb/> In the same way, the plinth facing the street has been made with [[Volcanic rock|volcanic stone]] from the [[Andes]], according to ancient tradition of the [[Inca architecture]] of Peru.<ref name=Arcoweb/>
==See also== *[[List of tallest buildings in Peru]] *[[Torre Banco de la Nación]] *[[Democracy Square (Peru)#Original building (1962–2000)|Banco Comercial]]
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{{Landmarks in Lima}}
[[Category:Buildings and structures in Lima]] [[Category:Bank buildings]] [[Category:Buildings and structures completed in 2001]] [[Category:La Victoria District, Lima]]