Wisma 46
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Wisma 46 is the tallest building in Indonesia
. It is a 250m tall (roof height) skyscraper
located in the Kota BNI
complex in Central Jakarta
, Indonesia
. The 48 storey
office tower was completed in 1996
under the design by Zeidler Roberts Partnership (Zeidler Partnership Architects) and DP Architects Private Ltd.
The tower is located on a 15 ha lot in the downtown city. It has a floor area of 140,028 m².
The tower contains 23 elevator
s which can reach speeds of 360 mpm in the super high speed models.
Wisma 46 is equal 147th tallest existing building in the world. When measured up to the roof, the tower is 228 m tall and when measured up to the lower roof, it is only 200 m tall.
The tower is a cuboid concrete tower rising 200 m before a sleek glass tower rises out of it before culminating in a curved spire. The glass tower has a totally glass
exterior unlike the tower it rises from which has a concrete
exterior with square windows. This pattern of square windows is disturbed three times by long rectangular windows. The building's design is described as modern and late-modernist.
The tower has 48 floors above ground which consist of offices only. There are 2 underground floors used for car parking.
, located in Bayview city centre.
Indonesia
Indonesia , officially the Republic of Indonesia , is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Indonesia is an archipelago comprising approximately 13,000 islands. It has 33 provinces with over 238 million people, and is the world's fourth most populous country. Indonesia is a republic, with an...
. It is a 250m tall (roof height) skyscraper
Skyscraper
A skyscraper is a tall, continuously habitable building of many stories, often designed for office and commercial use. There is no official definition or height above which a building may be classified as a skyscraper...
located in the Kota BNI
Bank Negara Indonesia
Bank Negara Indonesia , commonly known as BNI, is an Indonesian bank. It branches primarily in Indonesia, but it can also found in Singapore, Hong Kong, Tokyo, London and New York. It had 1,000 branches and 9 million customers in 2006. It is quoted on the Indonesia Stock Exchange as...
complex in Central Jakarta
Central Jakarta
Central Jakarta is one of the five cities which form Jakarta, Indonesia. It had 898,883 inhabitants at the 2010 Census.Central Jakarta is the smallest in area and population of the five cities of Jakarta. It is the administrative and political center of Jakarta and Indonesia...
, Indonesia
Indonesia
Indonesia , officially the Republic of Indonesia , is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Indonesia is an archipelago comprising approximately 13,000 islands. It has 33 provinces with over 238 million people, and is the world's fourth most populous country. Indonesia is a republic, with an...
. The 48 storey
Storey
A storey or story is any level part of a building that could be used by people...
office tower was completed in 1996
1996 in architecture
The year 1996 in architecture involved some significant events.-Buildings:*Eden Project, Cornwall near St Austell designed by Nicholas Grimshaw.*Oscar Niemeyer completes the Niterói Contemporary Art Museum in Brazil....
under the design by Zeidler Roberts Partnership (Zeidler Partnership Architects) and DP Architects Private Ltd.
The tower is located on a 15 ha lot in the downtown city. It has a floor area of 140,028 m².
The tower contains 23 elevator
Elevator
An elevator is a type of vertical transport equipment that efficiently moves people or goods between floors of a building, vessel or other structures...
s which can reach speeds of 360 mpm in the super high speed models.
Wisma 46 is equal 147th tallest existing building in the world. When measured up to the roof, the tower is 228 m tall and when measured up to the lower roof, it is only 200 m tall.
The tower is a cuboid concrete tower rising 200 m before a sleek glass tower rises out of it before culminating in a curved spire. The glass tower has a totally glass
Glass
Glass is an amorphous solid material. Glasses are typically brittle and optically transparent.The most familiar type of glass, used for centuries in windows and drinking vessels, is soda-lime glass, composed of about 75% silica plus Na2O, CaO, and several minor additives...
exterior unlike the tower it rises from which has a concrete
Concrete
Concrete is a composite construction material, composed of cement and other cementitious materials such as fly ash and slag cement, aggregate , water and chemical admixtures.The word concrete comes from the Latin word...
exterior with square windows. This pattern of square windows is disturbed three times by long rectangular windows. The building's design is described as modern and late-modernist.
The tower has 48 floors above ground which consist of offices only. There are 2 underground floors used for car parking.
Popular culture
This building appears on Need For Speed: Underground 2Need for Speed: Underground 2
Need for Speed: Underground 2 is a cross-platform racing video game published and developed by Electronic Arts. Released in 2004, it is the direct sequel to Need for Speed: Underground, and is part of the Need for Speed series, available on Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation 2, Xbox, Game Boy Advance,...
, located in Bayview city centre.
See also
- List of skyscrapers
External links
- SkyscraperPage.com's entry
- Emporis.com - Building ID 104696
- Google 3D Warehouse - Wisma 46, Kota BNI, Jakarta