López Serrano Building
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The López Serrano Building was the tallest residential building in Cuba until the construction of the FOCSA in 1956. Designed by the architect Ricardo Mira in 1929, who in 1941 who also designed La Moderna Poesia bookstore on Obispo Street for the same owner, it is often compared to the Bacardi Building in Old Havana built two years before the López Serrano Building because of their similarity in massing and central tower. The congressman, senator, and presidential candidate Eduardo Chibás was living on the fourteenth-floor penthouse when he committed suicide in August 1951 on the air at CMQ Radio Station.[citation needed]
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López Serrano Building | |
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General information | |
Type | Residential |
Architectural style | Art deco |
Location | Vedado |
Address | 108 Calle 13 & L |
Town or city | Havana |
Country | Cuba |
Coordinates | 23°08′39.2″N 82°23′13.94″W |
Construction started | 1929 |
Completed | 1932 |
Owner | Revolutionary government |
Height | |
Architectural | 57.4 metres (188 ft) |
Tip | 65.61 metres (215.3 ft) |
Roof | Terracota tiles |
Technical details | |
Structural system | Steel frame |
Material | Brick, terracotta tile walls |
Floor count | 10 + 4 tower |
Floor area | 8,500 square metres (91,000 sq ft) |
Lifts/elevators | 3 |
Design and construction | |
Architect(s) | Ricardo Mira |
Structural engineer | Miguel Rosich |
Other designers | Enrique García Cabrera |
Main contractor | Watch and Rosich |
Known for | 1st Cuba skyscraper[1] |
Other information | |
Number of rooms | 78 apts |
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