A chilean building or landmark - La Cruz del tercer Milenio

I’m sure I wrote about this building a few entries earlier, but I guess now I can focus on the building a bit more.

“La cruz del Tercer Milenio” is a building Located in the VI region, Coquimbo, 157 meters above sea level and it has 93 meters high. This is important, because even when 157 meters is the highest point of this port city, Santiago is located 527 meters above sea level, and the building of Costanera Center counts with 300 meters high; the cross is obviously smaller than Costanera, but the influence in the city is greater and richer that the one we percibe of Costanera (even though we may be able to see the building from a lot of open fields in the city). Both of them are landmark in the cities, but if there’s something that makes The Cross special to the city is the relation to the house buildings to the scale of the Cross.

Coquimbo is a small port city where the scale of the buildings doesn’t overcome 3-5 floors; they don’t have 25-30-floors towers like in Santiago, and this makes the Cross distinguish from the skyline. Also, the tower is placed over the highest hill,”The Vigía” (the watchman in english).

The way that the geography affects the importance of a building as perceived as the inhabitant is considerably shown with those two examples.

I visited it with my grandmother years ago, likely in 2005, and I certainly can’t remember all of the experience, but I do remember being greatly amazed by its high. 93 meters for a small child is a big thing, and there was only three elevator levels allowed at that time. I’m not sure how is working by now, but the silence you heard above the city and the view you could take was breathtaking.

If you ever got the chance to visit, and you’re also an architect student, take a look at the building and think in the experience you’re having. The materials may be too common right now (concrete, steel, wooden floors in some places) but the view from above, from the “sky” somehow, watching over all the houses and peoples in the city… May touch you somehow.

Regards!!


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  1. CamilaIovanka3 November 2017 at 09:27

    When I was a child I visited this building! I remember that it was so beautiful!
    Regards

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  2. Unknown1 December 2017 at 18:45

    I never heard about that places, it looks beautiful!

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