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Executive Tower, Montevideo

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Former names
  
Palacio de Justicia

Owner
  
Legader S.A.

Main contractor
  
Campiglia

Opened
  
2008

Construction started
  
1965

Completed
  
2008

Floor count
  
12

Height
  
35 m

Floors
  
12

Structural system
  
Reinforced concrete

Executive Tower, Montevideo

Location
  
Plaza Independencia, Montevideo, Uruguay

Architectural styles
  
Classical architecture, Modern architecture

Similar
  
Estévez Palace, Plaza Independencia, Palacio Salvo, Solís Theatre, Constitution Square

Executive Tower (Spanish: Torre Ejecutiva) the name of the working place of the President of Uruguay. The original project was started in 1965 as a future Palace of Justice, but the 1973 coup d'état interrupted it.

By the time the military government ended in 1985, the building was too small for the Uruguayan justice system, so the project remained halted for decades until in March 2006, President Tabaré Vázquez decided to finish the building and use it as an extension of the Estévez Palace. The President's offices were transferred there from the Liberty Building in September 2009.

Despite the name, the building does not actually belong to the Presidency of Uruguay but to a fully government-owned company called Legader S.A., which is in charge of leasing office space to other public and private organizations to finance the works on the building.

References

Executive Tower, Montevideo Wikipedia


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