Costanera Center

Costanera Center complex

The Costanera Center is a commercial and business complex located in the commune of Providencia, Santiago, Chile. Owned by Cencosud, the complex consists of four skyscrapers, including the Gran Torre Santiago, two high-end hotels, an office building, and a six-floor shopping mall.^[1]

The Gran Torre Santiago, which stands as the tallest of the four buildings, was designed by renowned architect César Pelli and measures 300 metres (980 ft) tall.^[2][3] It is the second tallest building in Latin America, following Torres Obispado, and the fifth tallest in the Southern Hemisphere, after Indonesia's Autograph Tower and Luminary Tower in Jakarta and Australia's Q1 on the Gold Coast and Australia 108 in Melbourne. One of the other buildings in the complex is 170 metres (560 ft) high, while the other is only four stories.

Construction of the Costanera Center was temporarily halted in January 2009 due to the late 2000s recession. The developers were concerned that they would not be able to find tenants if completed by the originally proposed date.^[4] After the recession ended, Cencosud announced that construction would resume on December 16, 2009. The construction process restarted at the end of 2010.

On February 14, 2012, the Gran Torre Santiago reached 300 meters and became the tallest building in South and Latin America.^[2][5] The mall in the complex, designed by Canadian retail agency Watt International, opened on June 12, 2012, and is the largest in South America.^[6] It comprises six floors and includes the Jumbo (hypermarket).

Gallery

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  Costanera Center (right) and Titanium La Portada (left)
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  Progress of the Costanera Center (right) and Titanium La Portada (left), Feb. 14, 2009
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  Costanera Center in June 2012
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  Costanera Center in January 2014
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  Costanera Center mall

References

1. Costanera Center – Gran Santiago Tower www.livingatlaschile.com December 17, 2013, retrieved December 19, 2013
2. "Costanera Center alcanza su altura máxima y culmina etapa de obra gruesa" (in Spanish). Santiago: La Tercera. Archived from the original on February 14, 2012. Retrieved 2012-10-03.
3. La Tercera – Cencosud niega presuntas irregularidades en permisos de construcción de Costanera Center Archived July 4, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
4. Long, Gideon (January 30, 2009). "South American skyscraper on hold". BBC. Retrieved 2009-02-19.
5. "Costanera Center se convierte en la torre más alta de Sudamérica" (in Spanish). Emol.com. 2012-02-14. Retrieved 2012-10-03.
6. Webber, Jude (2012-09-25). "Prosperity brings its problems". FT.com. Archived from the original on 2015-05-07. Retrieved 2012-10-03.

External links

• Costanera Center WebSite

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