The Coltejer building is the tallest building in Medellín

Medellín

Medellín , officially the Municipio de Medellín or Municipality of Medellín, is the second largest city in Colombia. It is in the Aburrá Valley, one of the more northerly of the Andes in South America. It has a population of 2.3 million...

, Colombia

Colombia

Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia , is a unitary constitutional republic comprising thirty-two departments. The country is located in northwestern South America, bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the...

 and the fourth tallest in Colombia.

A taller building, the "Edificio El Faro" is under construction in Sabaneta, Colombia, which is a city in the Metropolitan Area of Medellín

Metropolitan Area of Medellín

The Metropolitan Area of Medellín or the Metropolitan Area of the Aburrá Valley is a metropolitan area and subregion in the Colombian Department of Antioquia...

 and would technically surpass the Coltejer building as the tallest building in Medellin and would become the tallest building in Colombia.

History

Colombia began a skyscraper building era in the 1960s in Bogota

Bogotá

Bogotá, Distrito Capital , from 1991 to 2000 called Santa Fé de Bogotá, is the capital, and largest city, of Colombia. It is also designated by the national constitution as the capital of the department of Cundinamarca, even though the city of Bogotá now comprises an independent Capital district...

, Colombia's capital city. The Coltejer Building was designed by architects Raúl Fajardo, Aníbal Saldarriaga, Germán Samper, and Jorge Manjarres. Its construction required the demolition of the "Gonzalo Mejia" building. It was the headquarters of the textile company "Coltejer".
With a height of 175 meters, the Coltejer Building stands as the second tallest building in Colombia; and it resembles a sewing needle

Sewing needle

A sewing needle is a long slender tool with a pointed tip. The first needles were made of bone or wood; modern ones are manufactured from high carbon steel wire, nickel- or 18K gold plated for corrosion resistance. The highest quality embroidery needles are plated with two-thirds platinum and...

, representing the textile company after it was named for.

Statistics

• Height: 175 meters
• Area: 42,000 square meters.
• Floors: 36
• Parking spaces: 150
• Elevators: 11

The Coltejer Building can host 40,000 seated people and 168,000 standing people.