Gran Torre Santiago

The Costanera Center Torre 2,^[5] better known as Gran Torre Santiago (Great Santiago Tower), and previously known as Torre Gran Costanera, is a 62-story tall skyscraper in Santiago, Chile. It is the second tallest in Latin America (behind Mexico's T.Op Torre 1).^[6] It is the fourth-tallest building in the Southern hemisphere (behind New Zealand's Sky Tower, Australia's Q1 Tower and Australia 108).

Gran Torre Santiago
General information
Status	Complete
Type	Office
Location	Av. Andrés Bello 2457, Providencia, Chile
Coordinates	33°25′01″S 70°36′24″W
Construction started	June 2006; 18 years ago (2006-06)
Topped-out	14 February 2012; 12 years ago (2012-02-14)
Completed	2013; 11 years ago (2013)[1]
Cost	US$1 billion[2][3]
Height
Architectural	300 m (984 ft)
Top floor	261 m (856 ft)[4]
Technical details
Floor count	62 (+6 basement floors)
Floor area	107,125 m2
Lifts/elevators	24
Design and construction
Architect	Barreda y Asociados Watt International and César Pelli
Architecture firm	Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects
Developer	Cencosud
Website
www.costaneracenter.cl

References

1. "Gran Santiago Torre serves as perfect wayfinder when walking Chile's capital (video)". The Oregonian. 15 February 2014. Retrieved 15 December 2014.
2. Foster, Nick (29 November 2013). "Chile property: Pro-business Santiago lures foreign entrepreneurs". Financial Times.
3. "Santiago's Gran Torre skyscraper viewed with foreboding". South China Morning Post.
4. "Torre Costanera". The Skyscraper Center.
5. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 September 2015. Retrieved 8 September 2015.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
6. "Costanera Center es oficialmente el edificio más alto de Latinoámerica". La Segunda. 14 February 2012.