Torres Carlos Antúnez
The Torres Carlos Antúnez are two high-rise buildings in the Providencia municipality in Santiago de Chile . The towers, designed by architects Carlos Barella and Isaac Eskenazi between 1953 and 1956 and completed in 1968, are located southeast of the intersection of Avenida Providencia and Avenida Carlos Antúnez and are part of a larger overall complex that continues south with other residential buildings.
| Torres Carlos Antúnez | |
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 Tower A of the Torres Carlos Antúnez |
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| Data | |
| place | Santiago de Chile |
| architect | Carlos Barella and Isaac Eskenazi |
| Architectural style | Modern |
| Construction year | 1968 |
| height | 44.8 m |
location
The area, on which the two towers are connected by a commercially used gallery, is bordered to the northwest by Avenida Providencia , to the east by Avenida Carlos Antúnez and to the southwest by the church Iglesia de Nuestra Señora de la Divina Providencia . The street Dr. Luis Middleton, which is adjoined to the south by a large number of residential buildings belonging to the overall complex. Along with Avenida Providencia, the towers are located on one of the main traffic routes in the municipality of Providencia and between the two underground stations Manuel Montt and Pedro de Valdivia on Line 1 of the Metro de Santiago .
architecture
The two distinctive high-rise buildings with a Y-shaped floor plan each have 24 floors with a total height of 44.8 meters, with the upper 22 floors being living space, while the ground floor, first floor and basement are used as shops, offices or storage space. Each of the two towers houses 330 apartments , 220 parking spaces for cars in underground garages and six elevators, four of which serve the ground floor to the 12th floor and two more serve floors 13 to 24.
The floor plan and arrangement of the towers suggest concrete influences from the Tecton Group around the architects Berthold Lubetkin , Francis Skinner and Douglas Carr Bailey , who chose the Y-shaped floor plan for their Bevin Court (completed 1954) and Dorset Estate (1957) projects . The latter also features a combination of two towers over Y-shaped floor plans in a comparable arrangement.
The housing estate south of the towers, on the other hand, takes up ideas from Le Corbusier , as he formulated them for his Ville Radieuse .
View from the central square to tower A, gallery and the apartment block behind
Stairwell
The Torres Carlos Antúnez (right tower A, left tower B); front right the Iglesia de Nuestra Señora de la Divina Providencia
Lower view of the facade of tower A.
The three apartment types in one wing of the building
literature
- Palmer Trias, Montserrat: La comuna de Providencia y la ciudad jardín: un estudio de los inicios del modelo de crecimiento actual de la ciudad de Santiago , Santiago de Chile 1984.
- Krebs, Ricardo and Rodríguez, Hernán: Providencia. 100 años de la comuna , Santiago de Chile 1997.
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Comunidad 5to Sector. Retrieved December 30, 2018 (Spanish).
- ↑ Torres Carlos Antunez / Providencia, Santiago. Retrieved December 30, 2018 (Spanish).
Coordinates: 33 ° 25 ′ 36.7 ″ S , 70 ° 36 ′ 54.4 ″ W.