Centro Financiero Confinanzas

The Centro Financiero Confinanzas, also known as Torre de David ( Tower of David German ), is the third tallest building in Venezuela and is located in the capital, Caracas.

The tower was built in 1990 on behalf of the investor David Brillembourg and was originally intended to serve as the headquarters of a major bank, office complex and hotel. The so far only in the shell completed skyscraper has 45 floors and is 192 meters high. Due to the financial crisis and the death of David Brillembourgs 1993, the works were discontinued in 1994. According to him, the house was given its name " Torre de David ".

After the death of the investor, the Venezuelan government took over the building. In October 2007, some residents occupied from the slums of the city's Invest ruin. Gradually, more and more people populated the vacant floors and built this with provisional funds from their own initiative to flats and as craft workshops. Estimates of 2012 go today of about 2000 to 2500 illegal residents of the house, including members of the middle class in order to escape the high rents in Caracas. There are also some small shops and cafes.

International known as the " Torre de David " was a study of the Venezuelan architects Urban Think Tank of Hubert Klumpner Alfredo Brillembourg and Justin McGuirk. They accompanied the project over a longer period and presented it as a living model of the future in the cities of the emerging and developing countries. This abandoned places are busy and creative in initiative and self- management of a new use supplied ( squatting ). In 2012 they were awarded for this project with the "Golden Lion " of the international architecture exhibition the Venice Biennale for the best contribution in the main exhibition.