Torre Titanium La Portada - 1083 Words

Located in Santiago, Chile, the Torre Titanium La Portada is the tallest fully completed building in the city. Soaring well above its surroundings, the building possesses breathtaking views of the nearby Andes Mountains as well as the city that it dwarves. Not only is the shear height a feat that proclaims this building the greatest high rise structure of the last 50 years, but many other aspects of the building must be taken into account. To adequately measure the greatness, one must begin by looking into the building itself, and then to why it differs from ever other building created around the world. The Torre Titanium La Portada is located in between Santiago’s Metropolitan Park and San Luis Hill in a neighborhood affectionately called â€Å"Sanhattan;† Sanhattan being the high end financial office sector of the El Golf district. The building is one of the first to be built in the conceptual design of Titanium Park. Titanium Park is a four building concept, three id entical 23 story buildings, and the large 52 story Torre Titanium La Portada (Figure 5). As of today, all four buildings have been completed. All of these buildings are situated in a park-like setting along the south bank of the Mapocho River. The park includes gardens and walk-ways throughout the grounds and following the river. The building began as a design by lead architect Abraham Senerman Lamas and Andrà ©s Weil in 2007. Construction began shortly thereafter and was finished in 2010. The building cost $120