The Petroperú Building is a building located in
San Isidro District, Lima
San Isidro is an upscale Districts of Peru, district of the Lima Province in Peru. It is located in the west center of the city, it has a few meters of coastline. Officially created on April 24, 1931, San Isidro, along with Orrantia and Country ...
. It functions as the main office of
Petroperú
Petróleos del Perú (), better known as Petroperú, is a Peruvian state-owned enterprise and private law dedicated to the transportation, refining, distribution, and commercialization of fuels and other petroleum products. It has been owned by ...
, a state company dedicated to refining, transporting, distributing and marketing
oil
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in
Peru
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.
History
The building, designed by the architects Daniel Arana Ríos and
Walter Weberhofer, was the winning design in a contest organised by the
military government
A military government is any government that is administered by a military, whether or not this government is legal under the laws of the jurisdiction at issue or by an occupying power. It is usually administered by military personnel.
Types of m ...
of
Juan Velasco Alvarado
Juan Francisco Velasco Alvarado (June 16, 1910 – December 24, 1977) was a Peruvian Army general, general who served as the President of Peru after a successful 1968 Peruvian coup d'état, coup d'état against Fernando Belaúnde's presidency ...
in the early 1970s. The building, strategically located in central
San Isidro, was projected to host the offices of state company
Petroperú
Petróleos del Perú (), better known as Petroperú, is a Peruvian state-owned enterprise and private law dedicated to the transportation, refining, distribution, and commercialization of fuels and other petroleum products. It has been owned by ...
, being inaugurated in 1973.
Overview
It stands at the intersection of
Luis Bedoya Reyes
Luis Fernán Bedoya Reyes (20 February 1919 – 18 March 2021) was a Peruvian Christian Democrat Party (Peru), Christian Democrat (PDC) and Christian People's Party (Peru), Christian People's Party (PPC) politician who served as the List of may ...
and Canaval y Moreyra avenues. It has twenty-two floors and three basements in addition to having a helipad on top and is part of the architectural style known as
brutalism
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.
[
In addition to Petroperú, the building houses several public offices as well as the Ministry of Housing, Construction and Sanitation, the Agency for the Promotion of Private Investment and several ]art galleries
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.
See also
* List of tallest buildings in Peru
* Javier Alzamora Valdez Building
References
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San Isidro District, Lima
Buildings and structures in Lima
Bank buildings
Industrial buildings completed in 1973