Sky Garden Repsol
Macacha Güemes 515, 1425 Buenos Aires
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Project Detail
Type: Special Projects
Commitent: Repsol YPF
Project: Arq. César Pelli
Start Date: 2005
End Date: 2008
Surface: 75.112 m2
Macacha Güemes 515, 1425 Buenos Aires
Description
As part of the construction of the most iconic skyscraper in Buenos Aires, the sky garden at Repsol’s headquarters in Puerto Madero deserves special mention.This six story high park was painstakingly inserted into Repsol’s 110m tall office tower and provides a large beautiful window on the city. Inside stand five full-sized Jacarandá trees which had to be specially lifted and placed into enormous stainless steel pots after delicate detachment of the building’s curtain wall facade. Its slender, 24 meter high columns were designed to be attack-resistant so that one could fall without damaging the rest of the structure.