Intempo
The Edificio Intempo Benidorm is one property under construction high-rise building for residential purposes in Benidorm, Spain.
Architecture
The Intempo has 47 floors above ground and a height of 188 meters, making it one of the tallest structures in Spain and at the same time is one of the tallest residential building in Europe. In three basement parking garages are located. The Intempo consists of two residential towers with a distance of 20 meters, which are connected between the 33rd and the 44th floor of an inverted cone with each other, which itself contains eight floors. The facade in the form of M is all glass, the side walls of reinforced concrete. The parts of the building are accessible by a total of ten lifts, of which three lead over the entire height of the two towers. For the construction of approximately 2,500 tons of steel and 29,000 cubic meters of concrete were used. The building was designed by the Spanish architect Roberto Pérez Guerra and is nominated for the Prize awarded every four years for outstanding concrete structures 2014 of the International Association of Concrete (FIB ).
Genesis
The implementation of the project launched in 2005 was accompanied by numerous setbacks, whereby the inauguration date had to be postponed several times: first, from mid- 2009 to mid-2011, currently (as of August 2013) the completion in late 2013 is provided [ deprecated]. The turnkey handover to owners and tenants of the apartments is planned for Easter 2014.
The Intempo is seen by many commentators as a prime example of the bursting of a housing bubble in 2007 triggered economic and financial crisis in Spain. At the time of project start, the driven speculative construction industry was still in the phase of expansion. So got the builders society Olga Urbana founded by three Spanish private individuals 2004 2005 at a symbolic self turnout of only 3,100 euros for the Intempo a construction loan the bank Caixa Galicia in the amount of 93 million euros. The bankruptcy of the bank's mortgage first went over to the Nova Caixa Galicia before in December 2012, the "bad bank" Sociedad de Gestión de Activos de la Reestructuración Bancaria ( SAREB ), founded by the Spanish government took over this portion for around 50 million euros.
In June 2013, the hitherto entrusted with the management Architecture offices Pérez Guerra Ingenieros y Arquitectos Asociados Arquitectos and Olcina & Raduan withdrew from the project. They stated the necessary trust relationship between the client and the architect was lost after it was entrusted by the SAREB an external company with the project management. This was guided by economic considerations their decisions to such an extent that the structural safety, the quality and future maintenance of the building are no longer guaranteed, and could not be implemented the high standards of the original design. The mandated by the SAREB with the project management company Suasor receives, in addition to a monthly fixed fee a percentage share of savings achieved and is the responsible for the concrete works construction company in a dispute to non-reimbursed material costs in the millions.
Construction began in 2006. In July 2009, had originally responsible construction company, Estructuras Aliben to declare bankruptcy, so that the work remained suspended for months. In March 2010 placed a newly established construction company continued the construction work before it was replaced shortly thereafter by a third company. In an accident in June 2011, thirteen workers were injured by the crash of a freight elevator from the 20th floor, two of them seriously. The lying in the central part of the building last elements of the concrete frame was completed in June 2013. In August 2013 95 percent of the work had been completed. At the last stages of construction include the entrance hall, a swimming pool and the gardens.
About already sold flats there were highly variable media information. In January 2014 it was reported about 200 of the 269 homes were still without buyer. The majority of previous buyers are Russians. In August 2013, the news agency EFE reported on negotiations of the Intempo Property Owners' Association Olga Urbana with investors from Russia, the United Arab Emirates and Sri Lanka, who were interested in a corporate participation. According to media reports, the owner company is exposed several court cases in which sue previous buyers of apartments that were not completed as planned, to a refund of the purchase price and damages.
Media reports about missing lifts
Numerous media found everywhere in August 2013, the first published on the blog platform Gizmodo, sensational hoax, the building Concerning operative on any or no functional elevators. Was They referred it to a two weeks previously published exclusive report from the Spanish newspaper El País in which this was not indeed included, but relying on internal sources of design errors due to an alleged late expansion plans of 20 reported on 47 floors.
For the media that kolportierten the hoax included, among others, CBS, CNN, Corriere della Sera, The Independent, Libération or Russia Today. In the German-speaking area of the report that among other Bild.de, Focus, N24, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Spiegel Online, Star, or The world has been taken over.
According to the presentation of the news portal of T-Online, for example, the installation of an elevator is not just "forget" been, leaving the top 27 floors " can only be reached by stairs " were, but the expansion of the construction plans on 47 floors is even only " three years after start of construction " of " greed of investors, " takes place. Despite several denials on the part of the owner, the construction management and the marketers first thought also established media fast to the claim that the built-in elevators were not working or not as intended. Some media corrected their original reporting and later referred for example to a supposedly " diffuse source location ", others gave up a correction and removed their erroneous article fully.
According to clarifications of former and current leaders of the six elevators of high-rise towers are working properly, one could not explain the false reports of the planning errors and the malfunctioning of the elevators. The architects responsible for the planning required by the national television station Antena 3, which had arrived from abroad to Spain misinformation also spread unchecked, a public correction. Already in April 2013, and for months before emergence of rumors, a Spanish journalist had reported on her blog about her visit to the Intempo - site and its ( smooth ) ride in an elevator to the 45th floor, corresponding published photos and a total of ten elevators written. Six days after its original publication, which had followed a number of international media, took also the author of the blog post on Gizmodo its representation on the alleged lack of elevators back. Responsible for the real estate sales manager gave several days after the peak of the media reports that sales of homes in the world have become known to these unforeseen way since building went very well.